# Benny Tran > Software Engineer Location: New York, New York, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/bennytran ## Work Experience ### Software Engineer / TLM @ Cape Jan 2024 – Present | New York City Metropolitan Area ### Senior Software Engineer @ Uber Jan 2021 – Jan 2023 | San Francisco, California, United States Fulfillment Platform ### Software Development Engineer II @ Amazon Web Services (AWS) Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | Greater Seattle Area Amazon Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra) Elastic Block Store ### Software Development Engineer I @ Amazon Jan 2017 – Jan 2019 | Seattle, WA Tools: Java, JavaScript/TypeScript, React, AWS • Implement payments reporting features at all levels of development cycle including design, implementation, testing, and operational support • Design and implement event driven architecture for company wide payment notifications, enabling all departments to scale faster, improve financial reporting processes, and more quickly develop new features reliant on payment lifecycles • Design and implement REST services for payments reporting focused on improving external client integrations • Create operational tools for diagnosing data inconsistencies and development/production payment transaction testing ### Software Engineer I @ Nordstrom Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Greater Seattle Area Tools: Java, Node, Oracle, PL/SQL, Unix Shell Scripting, AWS, Docker • Identified and implemented missing functionality in applications needed to support new business transactions, including development, testing, and production support of features • Provided training and documentation for team members on how to support message queue applications and quickly troubleshoot unknown issues to maintain application availability/SLAs • Improved performance of critical batches by fixing race conditions among compute jobs and application sessions, SQL query tuning, and creating more detailed logging for failures • Improved SQL inventory reports, helping managers prioritize tasks based on dollar/inventory impact and providing more visibility into company’s inventory health ### DevOps Engineer @ Nordstrom Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | Seattle Tools: Java, Oracle, PL/SQL, Unix Shell Scripting, AWS • Developed batch processing jobs and database applications for automating processing of identified errors and failover contingency plans in middleware systems • Troubleshot urgent production issues involving middleware applications, databases, servers, and data loss in between systems • Identified performance bottlenecks, recommended customization services, and generated automated reports to drive root cause analysis on data flow issues • Implemented data pipelines in Java and design NoSQL data stores for aggregating metrics based on business logic and application performance to be displayed on dashboards ### Research Assistant @ University of Washington Department of Radiation Oncology Jan 2015 – Jan 2017 | Seattle, WA Tools: Matlab, Python, Bash Scripting, SQL • Design backend system to support research algorithm’s implementation including relational database design and API services in a Linux environment • Automated/improved test coverage and implemented error logging processes using Python/Bash scripting to help identify problem spots and enforce algorithm constraints • Enhanced analysis of algorithm performance and results by creating heat map data visualizations at different points in the optimization process and working on library of utility functions for common matrix functions ### Web Developer Intern @ CashVue Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 | Seattle, WA Tools: JavaScript, Python, Angular, React, AWS, Node, Postgres, MongoDB, webpack, gulp, bootstrap, CSS • Streamlined workflow by implementing staging/production environments, deployment scripts, and build systems using vagrant, docker, webpack, and gulp • Improved UI using Angular, React, CSS3, Bootstrap, and D3 focused on responsive design of data visualizations and custom spreadsheet tables • Created interactive spreadsheet features including currency formatting, equation evaluation, and money projections filtered on time intervals in web app • Architected backend services using Node, Python, and AWS databases to implement REST APIs for user management, authentication, and financial data ## Education ### Bachelor’s Degree in Biochemistry University of Washington ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/tranbenny - GitHub: https://github.com/tranbenny --- Source: https://flows.cv/bennytran JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/bennytran/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-01