Benjamin Jacobsen

Benjamin Jacobsen has a diverse work experience in various roles and companies. Benjamin'smost recent position is as an Infrastructure Engineer at Aura Home, Inc. starting in February 2023. Prior to that, Benjamin worked as a Production Engineer at Meta from September 2022 to November 2022, where they focused on implementing a rollback plan for AI packages and optimizing CPU load for an internal URL generation service. Benjamin also worked as a Software Engineer at Wish from September 2021 to December 2021, where they developed a service to visualize alert history and configuration and automated Prometheus alert creation. Benjamin held a role as a Site Reliability Engineer at Lifion by ADP from January 2021 to April 2021, where they restructured the SRE deployment pipeline with Terraform, improved ElasticSearch cost efficiency, and implemented AWS Lambda for RDS capacity planning. Benjamin worked as a Software Developer at Thomson Reuters from May 2020 to August 2020, where they created a microservice and introduced Redis caching to reduce authentication latency. Benjamin also gained experience as a Software Developer at BlackBerry QNX from September 2019 to December 2019, focusing on resolving vulnerabilities and automating development processes. Prior to that, they worked as a Full-stack Developer at Tangam Systems, where they implemented SSO authentication, developed Angular components, and optimized test site deployment. Benjamin also has experience as an Undergraduate Research Assistant at the University of Waterloo and previously worked as a Full-stack Developer at Tangam Systems.

Benjamin Jacobsen pursued their education at the University of Waterloo from 2017 to 2022, where they attained a Bachelor of Applied Science - BASc degree in Computer Engineering.