# Benjamin Hui

> Software Engineer @ RivianVW

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

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer II, Vehicle Access Cloud @ Rivian and Volkswagen Group Technologies
Jan 2025 – Present | Palo Alto, California, United States

### Full-stack Developer @ FLEETNOW
Jan 2024 – Jan 2024 | Toronto, Ontario, Canada
• Devised and implemented a PostgreSQL migration strategy to AWS RDS using AWS DMS with a dual-write approach, ensuring 99% system availability during a seamless transition migrating image and video data to AWS S3, reducing storage costs by 70% through automated data lifecycle strategies and version control

• Developed RESTful Django API on EC2 for dynamic PostgreSQL data retrieval, integrating AWS Cognito for secure authentication and optimizing performance with caching, improving retrieval times by 45%

• Streamlined website UI using breadcrumbs and Typescript with Vue.js’s SPA architecture, increasing daily active users by 15% and interactions by 29% while maintaining CI/CD pipelines using BitBucket, ensuring 85% code coverage using Jest and Mocha to integrate automated unit testing through Kubernetes and Docker

• Leveraged Prometheus and Grafana to create a robust monitoring platform, enabling swift detection and response to system failures within minutes, ensuring operational continuity and reliability

### Consulting Project Manager @ QMIND
Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 | Kingston, Ontario, Canada
• Developed a crowd-counting AI solution using YOLO and OpenCV, achieving over 90% accuracy in identifying the number of people in images, resulting in a 15% increase in operational efficiency by providing real-time data to reduce ATM wait times by 21%

• Implemented the distributed system architecture Apache Kafka to aggregate data from different sources to increase system performance by 19% and reduce latency by 12%

• Reduced project scope creep by 15% and post-implementation errors by 25% through continuously refining the development timeline and facilitating meetings in an agile environment using Jira

### Software Developer @ Queen's Technology & Media Association
Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 | Kingston, Ontario, Canada
• Created user interface for an app connecting vendors to local communities using Typescript and React Native, integrating AWS AppSync APIs to call Amazon RDS database calls increasing user engagement by 17% and interactions per session by 25%

• Optimized user onboarding and personalized user experience, improving user retention by 27% through analysis of Firebase statistics during the deployment of a test app on TestFlight

### Technical Lead @ GDSC Queen's
Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 | Kingston, Ontario, Canada
• Spearheaded project maintenance takeover of the software that replaces the iClicker, responsible for performing back-end and front-end improvements and occasional system check-ups

• Planned workshops and networking with Google employees, industry professionals, and other Google student clubs from other universities

### AI Software Developer @ Borealis AI
Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | Kingston, Ontario, Canada
• Performed data analysis on over 15,000 data points, using statistical techniques to manipulate and consolidate a balanced dataset reducing bias

• Enhanced image emotion classification using Slurm to control GPU clusters to train ResNet-18 models, fine-tuning hyperparameters to improve validation accuracy to 68.5%

• Selected as one of 300 teams nationwide to participate in the BorealisAI mentorship program Let’s Solve It, collaborating with four team members to develop an emotion detection AI using ImageNet’s CNN

### Software Developer @ QMIND
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | Kingston, Ontario, Canada
• Collaborated with a team of three to develop RetNa, an innovative application utilizing the convolutional neural network ResNet-50 as its pre-trained model

• Integrated a unique feature into a Google Chrome extension that detects eye movement, automatically scrolling the page when the user looks at the top or bottom of the screen

• Presented RetNa at CUCAI, the largest annual undergraduate conference for AI in Canada, to a diverse audience of over 300 attendees and 21 sponsors, engaging with industry professionals and fellow students to discuss the project’s development process

### Teaching Assistant @ Queen's School of Computing
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | Kingston, Ontario, Canada
• Hosted weekly office hours to answer questions and work through problems with up to 35 students regarding assignments and quizzes.
• Evaluated assignments and quizzes biweekly for up to 50 students while providing individual feedback to each student throughout the course.


## Education
### Bachelor of Computing (Honours) in Computer Science
Queen's University


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

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Last updated: 2026-04-11