# Ben G.

> Staff Software Engineer at Toast, Inc.

Location: Greater Boston, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/beng2

Experienced Software Engineer with a demonstrated history of working in the software industry. Skilled in Java, Kotlin, Python, Postgres, and DynamoDB. Strong engineering professional with an MS in Computer Science from Boston University.

## Work Experience
### Staff Software Engineer, Technical Design Lead @ Toast
Jan 2024 – Present
• Architected menu publishing system and authored technical RFC, implementing distributed entity map-
ping layer handling 30k+ RPS and reducing publish times from 5 minutes to < 1 minute, enabling top
customer-requested features serving all restaurant customers; optimized publishing system for enterprise
customers with 500+ locations, reducing query time by 60% and enabling 90% faster multi-location
publishing (from hours to minutes)
• Led team of 7 through rollout of new publishing platform to production, addressing scalability challenges
for high-volume configuration changes across multi-location restaurant groups
• Serve as Technical Design Lead providing technical oversight, RFC approvals, and architectural guidance
across multiple engineering teams and domains

### Senior Software Engineer, Technical Lead @ Toast
Jan 2021 – Jan 2024 | Boston, Massachusetts, United States
• Led architectural overhaul to decouple configuration publishing from legacy monolithic application,
reducing configuration creation time from 12 weeks to < 1 week and powering launch of 30+ new
configuration types across all lines of business with 80% faster product innovation
• Architected and delivered scheduled publishing system end-to-end, enabling restaurants to schedule menu
and pricing changes in advance, addressing feature tied to $20M in blocked deals and $14M in ARR
• Delivered configuration history feature end-to-end across GraphQL API and React frontend, implement-
ing entity diff computation, filterable audit trail, integration links, and dynamic display name generation
to provide restaurant operators visibility into configuration changes and improve debugging workflows
• Led technical ownership transition of restaurant creation systems serving 100% of new customers, im-
plementing Micrometer observability infrastructure and resolving 2 high-severity production incidents
(restaurant copy failures for enterprise accounts, database connection leaks in creation workflows)

### Software Engineer @ Toast
Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | Boston, Massachusetts, United States
• Led database migration from PostgreSQL to DynamoDB for 70,000+ restaurant configurations, achieving
zero-downtime migration while improving query performance and enabling horizontal scalability for
future growth
• Optimized database performance following production incident by implementing low latency follower
reads, reducing load on primary instance and improving system resilience during peak traffic periods
• Completed cross-team API migrations for configuration platform, migrating 5+ critical services across
payment processing, customer management, and ordering domains to new publishing endpoints while
maintaining 100% backward compatibility
• Established continuous delivery pipelines for 2 critical services, accelerating team iteration and reducing
manual deployment overhead

### Software Engineer @ Hedron
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Greater Boston Area
•	Designed microservice architecture to manage various spacecraft and ground operations. Microservices run as containerized applications that communicate using JSON-RPC.
•	Held responsibilities across every aspect of the company’s software development life cycle.
•	Engineered full stack web applications primarily using Python on the backend, Qt or Javascript on the front end, and MongoDB or Postgres as databases.
•	Converted existing NoSQL database and applications that used this database to Postgres
•	Partnered with business analysts to perform data driven analysis of potential customers by utilizing third party web services to aggregate and store data.
•	Lead effort to hire and managed two interns during summer 2019.

### Software Engineering Intern @ Hedron
Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | Greater Boston Area
•	Developed embedded applications for satellite subsystems, including the Zynq SDR. Includes an SDR application for ingesting/processing radio transmissions (libiio).
•	Wrote several libraries for interfacing with different sensing and flight hardware.
•	Assembled mission control front end using NASA’s OpenMCT to display telemetry data. Also utilizes CesiumJS to display geospatial data in 3D for tracking objects in space.
•	Initialized and maintain a MongoDB server storing mission critical telemetry as time series and organizing other important company assets.

### Course Assistant @ Department of Computer Science, Boston University
Jan 2015 – Jan 2017 | Boston, MA.
•	Assisted in running a weekly lab for students in introductory Computer Science courses
•	Held office hours during the week to assist with homework assignments and provide exam resources


## Education
### Masters of Science in Computer Science in Computer Science
Boston University

### Montville Township High School


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/bgaudiosi

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Last updated: 2026-03-28