# ben konz

> Senior Software Engineer, Data, at Spotify

Location: Jersey City, New Jersey, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/benkonz

I'm a full stack developer with experience in Spark, Scala, GCP, Java, Angular, and TypeScript.

Working in-depth with Data Engineering and Data Quality tooling from my current work at Spotify. I lead the development of a robust automatic testing tool for code changes on data pipelines in order to increase developer confidence in automated code changes. Additionally, I played a key role in defragmenting the data ecosystem at Spotify by identifying redundant services and centralizing business logic which resulted in the deprecation of several services.

I've also created the Jeroo (https://jeroo.org/beta) web application, which is a website aimed to bridge the gap between visual programming and traditional programming. For it, I had to write a compiler framework in OCaml and compiled it to JavaScript. I also wrote the UI using Angular and TypeScript.

I've also written a Gameboy Emulator in Rust. The project taught me a ton about low level assembly programming, debugging, unit testing, and computer architecture. The source code is here: https://github.com/benkonz/gameboy_emulator, and you can use it here: https://benkonz.github.io/assets/emulator/ 

Personal website: https://benkonz.github.io

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer - Data @ Spotify
Jan 2023 – Present | New York, New York, United States

### Data Engineer @ Spotify
Jan 2021 – Jan 2023

### Senior Data Engineer @ Wunderkind (Formerly BounceX)
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021

### Data Engineer @ Wunderkind (Formerly BounceX)
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | New York City Metropolitan Area

### Data Engineer @ Impact
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | Greater New York City Area

### Data Engineer Intern @ Impact
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019

### Software Engineer Internship @ Northrop Grumman
Jan 2017 – Jan 2019 | Bellevue, Nebraska
• Implemented Docker as a core deployment strategy
• Wrote Unit and Integration tests, using JUnit, Mockito, and Java Spring, for
many of the REST endpoints
• Contributed to code reviews and created user stories as part of an Agile
work-flow

### Software Developer Internship @ National Indemnity Company
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Greater Omaha Area
• Use .NET technologies (C#, VB, ASP .NET Web Forms, Entity Framework, and
NuGet) to modernize web-pages and desktop applications
• Full Stack developer creating internal web pages for employees and tools for
business partners

### Student Software Developer @ Health Informatics Lab (University of Nebraska, Omaha)
Jan 2015 – Jan 2017 | Greater Omaha Area
• Created an Android application to help Mid-West Hospital Labs securely
upload microscopic images of pathogens, deployed at 42 labs across Nebraska
and Oklahoma
• Shipped the first iteration of the Nebraska Watershed Network, a web
application for monitoring the water quality at various watersheds in Nebraska


## Education
### Bachelor's degree in Computer Science
University of Nebraska at Omaha
Jan 2015 – Jan 2019

### Exchange Semester in Computer Science
Delft University of Technology
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/ben-konz-48630414b
- Website: https://benkonz.github.io

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Last updated: 2026-03-22