Benjamin Kenawell

Work Experience
Software Engineer at Remark 2022 and ongoing
  • Build a lightweight, full featured chat utility to be hosted on others' sites
  • Create a powerful administration experience for the chat utility
  • Provide a good developer experience in our repos
  • Explore and teach best practices for many parts of our technology stack and the web
  • Learn, practice and preach good programming principles
  • Scale our developers so we can solve tough problems with a lean team
Software Engineer at Outdoorly 2021 and ongoing
  • Provide a straighforward buying experience for verified experts
  • Help scale up number of buyers our site can handle at once
Software Engineer at Microsoft 2018 until 2021
  • Promote a better employee experience by writing intuitive and accessible internal web applications for enterprise by leveraging Typescript and React/Redux while maintaining team and name coding standards
  • Create a better customer experience on the Sharepoint Platform
  • Collaborate with other teams across products to deliver well-written, thoughtful improvements to SERP and emploees' experience
  • Write, refactor, and modernize C# applications to better connect disparate enterprise experiences
  • Facilitate strategic decisions to determine the highest proirity work for the next sprint/quarter/year
Software Development Intern at Microsoft 2017 until 2017
  • Develop IT productivity tools and data driven graphics for highly visual internal telemetry (d3.js)
  • Learn and teach team dynamics in a business programming environment
Resident Assistant at Penn State Residence Life 2016 until 2017
  • Assist students in their transition from grade school at home to life in a residence hall at a university
  • Create a sense of community in a residence hall floor so it may be a place everyone has a voice and feels welcome
Lab Consultant and Supervisor at Penn State ITS Lab Consultant 2014 until 2018
  • Assist students and faculty troubleshoot computer lab equipment
  • Maintain professionalism and improve community amoung the staff
  • Keep up-to-date inventory for labs across campus
Volunteer

Appalachian Mountain Club 2022 until 2024

King County Emergency Search and Rescue (KCESAR) 2019 until 2021

Technology Education and Literacy in Schools (TEALS) 2019 until 2020

Education
The Pennsylvania State University Class of 2018

Major: BS Computer Engineering

Minor: Entrepreneurship and Innovation

Awards and Certifications

Eagle Scout - from Boy Scouts of America, Troop 2

SAFe 4.6 Certified - 2020 from Microsoft

Interests

Hotwire, HTMX, Alpine.JS, Elixir, Lisps, Liquid, Caddy, Ruby on Rails, Nunjucks

Typescript, React, NextJS, NestJS, SQL, bash, GraphQL, Docker, Node