# Kevin Benelli > Software Development Engineer 3 @ Adobe Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/kevinbenelli My name is Kevin Benelli, I’m a first generation college graduate at San Jose State University, where I earned a Bachelors of Science in Computer Science Spring 2022. I have versatile software engineering experience and currently work as a Software Development Engineer at Adobe on the Document Cloud Team. I'm passionate about learning OOP/OOD principles, coding languages/paradigms, and development best practices. I love exploring modern software development tools, libraries and frameworks; my goal is to learn at least one new thing everyday. I’m interested in Front-End, UI, or Full Stack, Software Development Engineering positions. ## Work Experience ### Software Development Engineer 3 @ Adobe Jan 2026 – Present | San Jose, CA ### Software Development Engineer 2 @ Adobe Jan 2023 – Jan 2026 | San Jose, California, United States o Led end-to-end development and launch of a major A/B experiment for the Word-to-PDF flow (10M+ MAU), improving the convert-page speed by 51% and driving a 7.51% lift in sign-ins for the experiment. o Co-led rebuilding the full 26 verb page (PDF→X, X→PDF, Chat with PDF, etc.) funnel, helping to scale the user base to 200M+ MAU. o Assisted in expanding the AI Assistant, enabling a new GenAI funnel now used by 10M+ MAU. o Developed an LLM-powered Smart Sign solution during Hackweek, delivering a functional MVP and selected as one of the top 10 org-wide demos. o Improved thumbnail rendition loading performance by 85% for 3.75M+ signed-in Acrobat users. ### Software Development Engineer @ Adobe Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 | San Jose, California, United States o Modernized dropzone experience and enabled clickable file uploading for 20+ conversion verbs, benefiting 80+ million monthly active users. (Link: https://www.adobe.com/acrobat/online/pdf-to-word.html) o Developed the PNG to PDF dropzone functionality and workflow using ReactJS. (Link: https://www.adobe.com/acrobat/online/png-to-pdf.html) o Developed an internal ReactJS SEO framework, earning a SPOT award and optimizing the organization's SEO process. o Led a Hackweek project utilizing Splunk API and Machine Learning to enhance Observability alerting and error monitoring. o Proficient in software development and engineering, specializing in ReactJS and related libraries/frameworks. o Active hiring panel member for conducting technical SWE interviews. ### Software Engineer Intern @ Adobe Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | San Francisco Bay Area o Developed anomaly detection algorithm using Seasonal Trend Decomposition with Locally Weighted Linear Regression to reduce noise in Splunk Alerts. o Created five Observability Splunk Dashboards for monitoring server error behavior, performance, and usage. o Enhanced automated Splunk Reports and Alerts. o Presented in Engineering Sprint Demos and achieved top 25 ranking in the Intern Project Expo among 633 participants. ### Software Design Engineer In Test @ Interos Inc Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | Menlo Park, CA o Developed and maintained UI regression tests using Selenium. o Implemented distributed/parallel performance load tests with Selenium Grid and Python. o Collaborated in design/technical reviews to ensure accurate assumptions. o Led nightly regression and benchmarking tests on AWS EC2, reviewing automated email reports. o Assisted in releasing new build versions across UI, API, and DB layers. ### Software Design Engineer Intern @ Interos Inc Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | Menlo Park, California o Developed multiple API matching test scripts utilizing memoization to significantly improve algorithm efficiency of API matching script requiring over 50,000 API calls o Created performance testing analysis report comparing JMeter and Locust for stress and load testing o Regularly reported Engineering and UI related Jira tickets ### Software Engineering Intern @ Macy's Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco Bay Area o Developed an SSR based UI MVP of Macy's e-commerce homepage in Vue.js o Presented an hour-long Tech-Talk on internet fundamentals and Vue.js to ~50 employees on SWE teams o Implemented Window Performance Web API tests and refactored code to optimize webpage performance o Created a full-stack Macy's Locker web application during a 2 week internal Hackathon, using ReactJS and NodeJS. o Developed production code and merged client facing features on Macy's E-Commerce web application ### Student Web Developer @ University of California, Davis Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Davis, California o Developed new web application feature using ReactJS and GraphQL for UC Davis's Energy Conservation Office's CEED Application. ### Software Developer @ Land O'Lakes, Inc. Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Sacramento, California Area o Developed Frontend / GUIs for machine learning based applications that rapidly mine and model high-dimensional genetic data sets. ### Software Engineering Intern @ remot3.it, Inc. Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Palo Alto, California o Created a ReactJS / Express Administrative Portal Application o Created a ReactJS Image Carousel App using an Instagram API o Used Python/Pandas to perform Data Analysis on user data to create baseline statistics o Performed software testing, QA, and debugging ## Education ### Bachelor of Science - BS in Computer Science San José State University ### Master of Science - MS in Computer Science San José State University ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/kevinbenelli --- Source: https://flows.cv/kevinbenelli JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/kevinbenelli/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-31