Benjamin Gawel

Senior Software Engineer @ MongoDB

Brooklyn, New York, United States

About

Experience

  • Senior Software Engineer at MongoDB
    Apr 2024 - Present · 2 yrs 3 mos

  • New Relic, Inc. (4 yrs 3 mos)
    • Senior Software Engineer
      Apr 2022 - Mar 2024 · 2 yrs

      Working on the team that maintains and improves upon NRDB, New Relics's custom distributed timeseries database. I focus on building out the core platform of NRDB, ranging from low level details like file format optimizations, to high-level system re-architectures to increase performance and resilience.

    • Software Engineer
      Jan 2020 - Apr 2022 · 2 yrs 4 mos

  • Software Engineer at Aspen Capital
    Aug 2018 - Nov 2019 · 1 yr 4 mos

    Developed and maintained internal tooling / data processing jobs used by the business for handling mortgages. My primary focus was improving upon and simplifying existing systems.

  • Software Engineer Intern at Optum
    Jun 2017 - Aug 2017 · 3 mos

    Automated the process used to verify a successful application deployment using .NET and the CodedUI framework Developed and refactored tests for a legacy application in .NET

  • Software Engineer Intern at The Home Depot
    May 2016 - Aug 2016 · 4 mos

    Worked on the Supply Chain software development team. Developed a Java application using the Spring framework to aid in a major database migration. The application saved a team of ten, three weeks of time for each of the databases that needed to be copied Developed a web application and multiple tools for distribution center workers to use that significantly cut ticket requests. Used Angular 2 for the frontend and Java with Spring Boot for the backend.