Ben Kaplan

SDE @ AWS EKS – CS and Math @ Purdue

Palo Alto, California, United States

About

New grad out of Purdue having majored in Mathematics and Computer Science, with a specialization in systems engineering. 3x Intern and now full time SDE at EKS. Interested in robotics, embedded systems, distributed systems, and artificial intelligence.

Experience

  • Software Development Engineer at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
    Apr 2026 - Present · 4 mos

  • Software Development Engineer at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
    May 2025 - Aug 2025 · 4 mos

    Worked hand in hand with product and senior leadership both in overall design and implementation of the control-plane side of EKS's Provisioned Control Plane. Established signal analysis processes, planned controller features, and wrote the implementation for the API request concurrency control system.

  • Software Development Engineer at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
    May 2024 - Jul 2024 · 3 mos

  • Software Development Engineer at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
    May 2023 - Aug 2023 · 4 mos

  • FIRST Robotics Mentor at Peninsula Robotics | FRC Team 6036
    Jun 2021 - Jun 2023 · 2 yrs 1 mo

    Computer Science, Computer Vision, Control Systems, and Math mentoring.