# Daniel Bennett

> Software Engineer II at LTK

Location: New York, New York, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/danielbennett1

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer II @ LTK (formerly rewardStyle & LIKEtoKNOW.it)
Jan 2022 – Present
• Major contributor to business logic/design of  experimental "Fastpay" feature, reducing payment turnaround on new commissions from 90-120 days to 1-7 days.

• Created front facing endpoints for interacting with Fastpay system that translates RPC -> Rest using AWS SAM/Lambda/API Gateway and Tyk Gateway.

• Added datadog functionality to several key services, including advertisers ingestion, allowing better observability and logging capabilities as well as providing more useful metrics.

### Software Engineer @ LTK (formerly rewardStyle & LIKEtoKNOW.it)
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022
• Added eventing on Advertiser domain using AWS Lambda/Eventbridge allowing other teams to react faster to changes in Advertiser status.

• Created front facing translation endpoints for RPC -> Rest using AWS API Gateway/Lambda allowing for easier consumption of Revenue data by other teams.

• Improved overall test coverage on new features and existing projects by employing TDD, and Dependency Inversion.

• Created service to calculate/record observed commission rates and compare to contracted rates for consumption by the data team using AWS Redshift/Athena

### Data Science Intern @ LTK (formerly rewardStyle & LIKEtoKNOW.it)
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021
• Migrated link database from Apache Cassandra to AWS Dynamo DB by leveraging AWS Fargate and S3.

• Upgraded Advertiser Ingestion ETL process from Python 2.x -> 3.8

• Maintained and Extended Advertiser ETL job(s) by fixing bugs and adding new feeds allowing for onboarding of new affiliate networks. 

• Containerized Advertiser ETL Jobs from EC2 to Fargate with AWS Cloudformation/Docker reducing overall cloud expenditure.

### Teaching Assistant  :  Mobile App Development / Full Stack Development @ Florida Atlantic University
Jan 2020 – Jan 2022 | Boca Raton, Florida, United States
• Teaching Assistant for Mobile Application Development and Full Stack Development Classes

• Created code examples/skeleton code for projects in Mobile App Development, including hybrid web apps using Apache Cordova.

• Created examples for Android Development in Android Studio with Java using Volley, Picasso. Students were able to sucessfully complete a final project requiring them to build an app to use IMDB APIs to make an app that allows them to browse movies, show posters of movies as well as other metadata, and persist storage of favorites to Google Firebase as well as have the user login with Google SSO.

### HSI Student Mentor @ Florida Atlantic University
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | Boca Raton, Florida
• Provided 1:1 tutoring in Computer Science topics for Hispanic and/or financially disadvantaged students as part of an initiative to increase graduation rates.

### Embedded Software Intern @ Novtech
Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Coral Springs, Florida


## Education
### Master's degree in Computer Science
Florida Atlantic University

### Bachelor of Science - BS in Computer Science
Florida Atlantic University

### Bachelor of Arts - BA in Chemistry
Florida Atlantic University

### Associate of Arts - AA
Palm Beach State College


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/daniel-bennett-084602163

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Last updated: 2026-04-13