Benny Cortese

Benny Cortese is a software engineer with extensive experience in various roles across multiple companies, including Meta, where contributions involve redesigning Facebook for business users and developing alert monitoring systems. Currently serving as a Software Engineer at Meta since May 2025, Benny is also an Engineering Fellow at Kleiner Perkins and a Neo Scholar Finalist. Prior positions include founding engineer at Momentic, software engineer at Figma, and software engineer intern at Microsoft, where work included enhancing Azure cloud capabilities and improving open source contributions. Benny has a strong teaching background, having served as a teaching assistant for multiple computer science courses while pursuing a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science and Mathematics at the University of Florida.