Benjamin Kos

Senior Software Engineer

Bay Village, Ohio, United States

About

Experience

  • Senior Software Engineer at Business Wire
    Oct 2024 - Present · 1 yr 9 mos

  • Senior Software Engineer at Bread Financial
    Oct 2023 - Oct 2024 · 1 yr 1 mo

  • Senior Software Developer at Vanguard
    Apr 2021 - Jun 2023 · 2 yrs 3 mos

    • Developed highly available (four nines) suite of applications to digitize “Forms & Applications” process for retail clients, via AWS ECS / EC2, Java Spring, and Typescript + Angular. • Managed External API Integrations including SSO, using AWS Cloudformation and Java Spring • Responsible for seeing stories from development through production elevation, often leading business epics and directing junior developers • Monitored applications using AWS Cloudwatch, OpenTelemetry, Splunk • Lead Agile ceremonies such as Stand Up, Refinement, Retrospective when needed • Mentored junior developers, performed code review • Led Department in Reputation on Enterprise Stack Overflow

  • Senior Software Engineer at Refinitiv
    Sep 2017 - Mar 2021 · 3 yrs 7 mos

    • Developed financial risk systems in Java within cross functional ~20 person Agile team. • Integrated with internal and external RESTful Service API’s. • Executed release management process within a microservice architecture. • Active role in DevOps / SysAdmin / Continuous Integration. • Conducted code reviews. • Training and Mentoring of junior developers. • Active contributions to Agile process through backlog grooming, leading scrums.

  • Software Engineer at Northrop Grumman Corporation
    Apr 2013 - Sep 2017 · 4 yrs 6 mos

    • Developed geographic information systems in Java within teams of up to 6 other developers. • Developed web-facing JavaScript geospatial intelligence applications. • Developed RESTful Web Services. • Developed Selenium WebDriver tests for Javascript web applications. • Followed Agile software development practices.