# Benjamin Civjan

> SWE @ StrongDM | Ex- AWS & IBM | UIUC CS

Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/benjamincivjan

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ StrongDM
Jan 2025 – Present

### Graduate Research Assistant @ Siebel School of Computing and Data Science
Jan 2024 – Jan 2025 | Champaign, Illinois, United States
Research Assistant working in the Multimedia Operating Systems and Networking (MONET) Research Group led by Professor Klara Nahrstedt

### Graduate Teaching Assistant - System Programming @ Siebel School of Computing and Data Science
Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 | Champaign, Illinois, United States
Teaching a section of 35 undergraduate students weekly on the topics of C programming, operating systems, processes/threading, synchronization, memory, networking, security, and more.

### Software Dev Engineer Intern @ Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Jan 2023 – Jan 2023 | Seattle, Washington, United States
Added features to AWS Libcrypto for Rust.

### Undergraduate Research Assistant @ Siebel School of Computing and Data Science
Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 | Champaign, Illinois, United States
Worked under Professor Ling Ren on efficient Private Information Retrieval using homomorphic encryption.

### Software Dev Engineer Intern @ Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | Seattle, Washington, United States
Implemented post-quantum hybrid key exchange for OpenSSH using Kyber512 and Elliptic Curve Diffie-Hellman.

### Software Development Intern with Healthcare and Life Sciences Research @ IBM
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021
Created IoT and mobile software to seamlessly monitor health for at-risk patients remotely.

### Software Developer @ IBM-Illinois Center for Cognitive Computing Systems Research (C3SR)
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | Champaign, Illinois, United States
Worked with a small group of students and professionals to improve an experimental Docker web service.

### CS 125 Course Assistant @ University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | Champaign, Illinois, United States
Member of the course staff for the largest introductory computer science class at Illinois.

### Private Tutor @ Self-employed
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Palo Alto, CA


## Education
### Master of Science - MS in Computer Science
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

### Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

### Computer Science
KTH Royal Institute of Technology

### Palo Alto High School


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

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Last updated: 2026-04-10