# Benny Cortese

> Software Engineer at @ Meta, ex-Momentic, ex-Figma, ex-2x Microsoft

Location: San Mateo, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/bennycortese

At the University of Florida studying Computer Science and Mathematics. Knowledgeable in C++, Go, Python, Java, R, JavaScript, and Kotlin programming languages. I am passionate about Distributed Systems, improving Computer Science Education, Software engineering, Artificial Intelligence and Mathematics.

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Meta
Jan 2025 – Present
• Software engineer on the profile infrastructure team and redesigned pages in Facebook for business users
• Built the front-end and back-end for alert monitors and creating new alerts monitors for object mutations at Meta
• Built MCP servers for feature flagging and prompt engineered scripts to do code migrations for removing deprecated aspects of Facebook profiles across the codebase.
• Commited 507 diffs in my first full half at the company.

### Engineering Fellow @ Kleiner Perkins
Jan 2024 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area

### Neo Scholar Finalist @ Neo
Jan 2023 – Present

### Software Engineer @ Momentic
Jan 2025 – Jan 2025 | San Francisco Bay Area
Second Engineer Hire/Founding Engineer

### Software Engineer @ Figma
Jan 2024 – Jan 2024 | San Francisco, California, United States
• Improved accessibility of Figjam and Figma Slides on the AI Productivity team with Typescript, React, C++
• Led the development, ideation and planning of the Generate Speaker Notes action in Figma Slides
• Garnered 1000 unique users and over 2000 daily uses of the new Generate Speaker Notes action

### Undergraduate Teaching Assistant @ UF Computer & Information Science & Engineering
Jan 2022 – Jan 2024 | Gainesville, Florida, United States
• Teaching assistant for Data Structures and Algorithms COP3530
• Held weekly virtual office hours to assist students and teach Graphs, Trees, and other basic data structures
• Helped students debug C++ code and worked on our website, also hosted a weekly discussion

### Undergraduate Teaching Assistant @ UF Computer & Information Science & Engineering
Jan 2023 – Jan 2023 | Gainesville, Florida, United States
• Teaching assistant for Operating Systems COP4600
• Held two weekly discussion sessions and office hours to help students with projects and assignments
• Taught students about system calls, schedulers, processes and threads, memory management, security, deadlocks, race conditions, locking mechanisms, kernel space versus user space, file systems and I/O device

### Research Assistant @ UF Computer & Information Science & Engineering
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | Gainesville, Florida, United States
• Member of the Engaging Learning Laboratory under Dr.Blanchard
• Working on the Dual-Modality project to help students learn to code
• Redesigned the lexical grammar of the IntelliJ plugin using Javascript, Coffeescript and ANTLR
• Made programming languages easier to learn for beginners with blocks and colored scoping

### Undergraduate Teaching Assistant @ UF Computer & Information Science & Engineering
Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | Gainesville, Florida, United States
• Teaching assistant for Discrete Structures COP3100
• Held weekly virtual office hours to assist students and weekly discussion sessions to over 30 students
• Graded tests and taught over 500 students about discrete structures

### Undergraduate Teaching Assistant @ UF Computer & Information Science & Engineering
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | Gainesville, Florida
• Teaching assistant for Programming Language Concepts COP4020
• Held weekly virtual office hours to assist students and created Junit5 and Kotlin unit tests
• Utilized Kotlin, Python and Java to build auto grader systems for the students' assignments
• Imparted knowledge of building programming languages to over 100 students

### Software Engineer @ Microsoft
Jan 2023 – Jan 2023 | Redmond, Washington, United States
• Working on Azure Upstream Infrastructure team in Azure Core working on open source cloud computing libraries
• Writing a Kubernetes controller using Go which caches the nodes’ operating system image
• Improving horizontal scaling speeds and pushing my changes to the open source repository for others to use

### Software Engineer @ Microsoft
Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | Redmond, Washington, United States
• Software Engineering Intern on the Azure Container Registry team
• Utilized Docker, Kubernetes, Helm Charts, YAML, Azure Devops, Python and Bash scripting to migrate current kubernetes orchestration library to a more scalable, modular, non-deprecated one
• Modified image loading to remove redundancy on a service which receives 18,000 requests per second
• Researched and improved the viability of the Cluster API Provider project for Azure through extensive testing

### Research Assistant @ University of Florida
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | Gainesville Metropolitan Area
• Member of the Machine Intelligence Laboratory
• Assisted MIL laboratory in the documentation and implementation of robotic devices used for competitions.
• Utilized Python, C++, XML and OpenCV to work with the robot's machine vision system
• Documentented the launch sequence for the Sub8 robot


## Education
### Bachelor of Science - BS in Computer Science and Mathematics
University of Florida

### High School Diploma
Plant High School


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

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Last updated: 2026-04-11