Ben

Senior Software Engineer

Columbus, Ohio

Over 10 years of engineering experience in bank data integrations, service modernization, scalability, and cost optimization. Contributed to scaling a consumer product from thousands to millions of customers.

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Skills

Languages & Frameworks

  • C#
  • .NET / .NET Core
  • .NET Framework
  • ASP.NET MVC
  • SQL
  • Python
  • JavaScript
  • AngularJS

Cloud & Infrastructure

  • AWS (EC2, S3, RDS, Aurora, SNS, SQS, Kinesis)
  • Kubernetes
  • Terraform
  • Kafka
  • Cloudflare

Data

  • MySQL
  • SQL Server
  • DynamoDB
  • Elasticsearch
  • Redis
  • Databricks

Tools

  • Cursor
  • GitHub
  • Argo CD
  • Datadog
  • incident.io
  • Optimizely

Professional Experience

EarnIn (formerly Activehours)

January 2015 – October 2026

  • Senior Software Engineer July 2022 – October 2026
  • Software Engineer April 2015 – July 2022
  • Engineering Intern January 2015 – April 2015

Bank Data Platform & Integrations

  • Collaborated on the design and implementation of a provider-agnostic C#/.NET bank data platform with connection redundancy and provider fallback, ultimately supporting millions of bank connections and billions of transactions.
  • Implemented and maintained Plaid, MX, Quovo, Akoya, Capital One, and Wells Fargo integrations, working directly with provider teams on launches, new features, and troubleshooting.
  • Delivered approximately $3M in annual savings by routing bank connections to lower-cost providers based on the financial institution.
  • Built automated, billing-aware connection pruning jobs contributing to $1.2M in annual savings without impacting user experience.
  • Served as the bank data platform’s primary technical owner, co-leading technical projects, troubleshooting complex issues, and resolving production incidents.
  • Interviewed, onboarded, and mentored engineers on bank integrations, service architecture, and production operations.
  • Contributed to bank transaction data-access rewrites for two migrations: SQL Server to Elasticsearch for performance, and Elasticsearch to DynamoDB for cost reduction; validated correctness with parity checks.
  • Built full-stack bank troubleshooting tools with C#/.NET APIs, ASP.NET MVC, and AngularJS, enabling customer service agents to investigate and resolve bank connection issues.
  • Led the transition of bank data platform development and production ownership to the Bangkok engineering team through knowledge transfer; remained an escalation contact after the handoff.

Platform Modernization & Efficiency

  • Migrated legacy .NET Framework web services, message processors, and scheduled jobs from EC2 to modern .NET microservices on Kubernetes to improve scalability; used Cloudflare Workers to gradually shift API traffic during rollout.
  • Replaced SQS delivery flows with SNS and Kafka to support multiple downstream consumers, using Optimizely-controlled rollouts to validate behavior during migration.
  • Migrated database-intensive scheduled jobs to Databricks using replicated data, reducing production database load; verified matching results before switching production processing.
  • Optimized service resources and scaling policies, saving tens of thousands of dollars annually while improving scaling reliability.
  • Reduced log volume and record size, lowering Datadog costs by over $50K annually.

Internships

Honda North America

May – August 2014

IT Support Intern

Marathon Petroleum

January – May 2014

Business Analyst Intern

GE Aviation

February 2012 – December 2013

Data Quality Analyst Intern

Education

University of Cincinnati

September 2010 – June 2016

Bachelor of Science in Information Technology

GPA: 3.8