# Benjamin Gertz > Senior Software Engineer Location: Brooklyn, New York, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/benjamingertz As a Cofounder and CTO at Alltum I led the technical design and decision making for the company. I helped translate product and feature ideas into actionable technical stores, and contributed to the development of the services as both an individual contributor and a product and project manager. I wore multiple hats, getting on fundraising, networking calls, as well as conducting pain points interviews and sales. As a Backend Engineer at Fetch, I designed, created, and maintained low latency cloud-hosted microservices using Go and Node.js, leveraging AWS technologies such as Elastic Beanstalk, EC2, Lambda, Redis, and DynamoDB. I reduced p99 across the stack by identifying and eliminating redundant network calls, and led the technical design for a fraudulent point accounting service that reduced cost compared to a traditional containerized microservice. I also successfully mentored an apprentice candidate through a three-month contract for hire program, demonstrating my strong interpersonal and leadership skills. I hold a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science and Cell and Molecular Biology from Tulane University, where I gained experience in both software engineering and genetics research. I collaborated with rMark Bio, a startup that provides AI solutions for the life sciences industry, on a capstone project and two internships. I am a fast learner and a team player, ready to contribute to the overall success of a company that values innovation, collaboration, and customer satisfaction. ## Work Experience ### Senior Software Engineer @ Grow Therapy Jan 2025 – Present | New York, New York, United States Building the first AI therapy Coach for intersession care. ### Software Engineer II @ Grow Therapy Jan 2024 – Present | New York, New York, United States Enabling mental health care providers ### Cofounder and CTO @ Alltum Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 | New York, United States • Led a team of 4 developers where I streamlined the feature development process reducing average completion time by half • Designed and built a generative AI webservice in Node Typescript with a Postgres data source • Wrote and optimized SQL queries for complex personal analytics dashboards • Deployed and monitored the application using Kubernetes on AWS with infra written in Terraform • Worked closely with the CEO to translate product ideas into technical stories and roadmaps ### Backend Software Engineer +++ (Dynamic Content) @ Fetch Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 • Responsible for the design, creation and maintenance of low latency cloud hosted microservices — Reduced p99 across the stack by identifying and eliminating redundant network calls ### Backend Software Engineer ++ (Fraud Prevention) @ Fetch Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | Chicago, Illinois, United States • Led the technical design for a fraudulent point accounting service written in Go and hosted in Elastic Beanstalk • Designed and built Fetch’s first complex AWS Step Function using Node.js Lambdas and deployed with Terraform — Reduced cost compared to a traditional containerized microservice • Successfully mentored an apprentice candidate through a three-month contract for hire program ### Backend Software Engineer @ Fetch Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | Chicago, Illinois, United States • Worked with an external banking partner to integrate their debit card with Fetch’s APIs ### Backend Software Engineer Apprentice @ Fetch Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | Chicago, Illinois, United States ### Software Engineer @ rMark Bio, Inc. Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | Chicago, Illinois, United States Developing a test suite using Test Café in Javascript for CI/CD product pipeline ### Capstone Collaboration @ rMark Bio, Inc. Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 In the process of building a recommendation engine for speaker programs using social media analytics algorithms to analyze a Neo4j graph. ### Software Development Intern @ rMark Bio, Inc. Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Chicago, Illinois Developed a chat bot using the MS Bot Framework and the LUIS natural language understanding engine for a new way to interact with rMark APIs and built a RESTful API test harness using the Jest JavaScript testing framework. ### Genetics research intern @ Tel Aviv University Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Tel Aviv Area, Israel During my internship I completed an experiment which resulted in original and consequential results towards the focus of the lab. Following my experiment I wrote a paper summarizing my results in the academic style. The position was in a lab with a diverse and international group of young researchers and professors where no two people spoke the same first language. ### Undergraduate Research Assistant @ Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Greater New Orleans Area I worked on the team of a researcher performing a clinical trial at the Tulane School of Public Health and Tropical medicine where I created and logged survey information for subjects using Redcap as well as recruited for the trial. Among the other undergraduate research assistants I was the top recruiter for clinical trial participants. ### Camp Counselor @ Olin Sang Ruby Union Insititute Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Oconomowoc, Wi ### Sales Representative @ Toys"R"Us Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 | Highland Park, Illinois ## Education ### Bachelor's degree in Computer Science and Cell and Molecular Biology Tulane University Jan 2016 – Jan 2020 ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/benjamin-gertz - Website: https://bgertz.com --- Source: https://flows.cv/benjamingertz JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/benjamingertz/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-20