Brent Benzinger

Senior Developer

• Senior Software Engineer for continuing education platforms AudiologyOnline, SpeechPathology.com, OccupationalTherapy.com, PhysicalTherapy.com, Continued.com, Simucase.com, totaling more than eight hundred thousand users across platforms.
• Develops and maintains production systems following established engineering best practices including object-oriented design, automated testing, code review, and secure coding standards.
• One of three engineers responsible for real-time incident response, debugging and resolving complex failures across large production systems.
• Performs cost-benefit-analysis of third party software integration, identifies unused resources in AWS, communicates and works with key stakeholders to maintain dependencies that fit our needs while balancing complexity and cost.
• Project lead for billing system refactor, integrating Stripe payment services and addressing technical debt for improved maintainability and scalability.
• Project lead for the Privacy Compliance, ensuring software adheres to GDPR and CCPA standards.
• Project lead for Audiolab, a microservice‑architected product offering written in Flask, enhancing skill‑building for audiology and speech‑language pathology students.
• Proactively identifies and resolves critical security vulnerabilities, bolstering system integrity and user data protection.
• Partnered with product and customer stakeholders to translate loosely defined LMS integration requirements into technical architecture and delivery plan, successfully implementing a Canvas LMS integration enabling adoption by major university customers.
• Organized and delivered internal technical talks explaining complex engineering concepts (e.g., Git’s DAG model, foundations of modern machine learning systems) to improve team-wide technical understanding.
• Working in: Linux, Docker, MySQL, Snowflake, PHP, Python, TypeScript, GraphQL, AWS, Terraform

Software Engineer

• Designed, implemented, tested, and maintained applications for an extensive e-learning platform with 700+ online courses, serving over 6 million subscribers annually, encompassing staff and student safety, health, and wellbeing programs.
• Received mentorship from senior developer, honing skills in handling complex tasks and cross-team communication to effectively transform project concepts into tangible results.
• Recognized as a key software engineer with privileged responsibility for code releases and direct access to production servers, reflecting high trust in expertise and reliability.
• Collaborated as a key backend developer, providing expertise in writing efficient SQL queries and supporting front-end and full-stack developers with various backend requirements, enhancing team synergy and project efficiency.
• Skillfully navigated and enhanced 20-year-old legacy code, adapting to undocumented and evolving paradigms, while championing the integration of modern best practices to improve code quality and future maintainability.
• Demonstrates a strong capability for autonomous task management coupled with effective collaboration in team environments.
• Diligently documented code changes in comments, version control repositories, and ticketing system, ensuring clear and comprehensive handovers to subsequent developers.
• Developed critical security enhancements in PHP, specifically focusing on database input sanitization to bolster data integrity and system resilience.
• Played a key role in advocating for and assisting with the adoption of Docker, identifying and addressing environmental discrepancies that impacted development speed, and worked alongside the sysadmin team to integrate Docker and streamline development processes.
• Worked in: Linux, MySQL, PHP, DevOps, Security, HTML/CSS/JavaScript, Docker, XML, SVN, REST Http APIs

Programmer

• Maintained large scale PHP and MySQL production inventory software for Amazon's largest Microsoft-Certified-Refurbished 3rd party seller, with market dominance in regions including the Northeast, Southeast, Midwest, and up to the Mountain States.
• Spearheaded the RareUse project, developing software for efficient eBay sales postings and managing transaction databases, significantly boosting profitability from non-standard electronic inventory.
• Led the integration of Git into the development team's codebase and workflow, providing training on its effective use and best practices for version control.
• Collaborated closely with the CFO to develop and implement financial reporting features, translating business needs into functional software solutions and enhancing organizational financial tracking and analysis.
• Revamped the database infrastructure, normalizing data, optimizing indexes, and enhancing backup reliability, significantly improving data integrity and system performance.
• Independently integrated and maintained diverse eCommerce APIs, including Amazon, eBay, Walmart, and Staples, adeptly navigating documentation of variable quality.
• Regularly collaborated with the sales team lead to translate business needs into software specifications, developing key tools like automatic price adjustment to secure default product listings on Amazon and Walmart.
• Managed on-site Linux server hosting production code and data, overseeing nightly scripts for system optimization and maintaining operational integrity.
• Worked in: MySQL, PHP, Linux, Git, DevOps, HTML/CSS/JavaScript, Angular, REST Http APIs

Freelance Developer

• Optimized the front-end of Spa and Pool Store, enhancing user experience and responsive design for mobile web pages.
• Rapidly acclimated to and modified an unfamiliar codebase, demonstrating flexibility and quick learning.
• Utilized bash and CLI tools effectively to streamline website builds and updates.
• Engaged directly with customers to understand their needs, ensuring timely and relevant code upgrades within quoted timelines.
• Implemented aesthetic enhancements to the homepage, contributing to improved site engagement and visual appeal.
• Worked in: Bash, Linux, DevOps, Frontend technologies

Georgia Institute of Technology

• Low level programming, Operating Systems, Compilers
• Network programming
• Machine Learning for trading
• Information Security and Network Security
• Worked in: C, C++, Python, Linux, LLVM, Docker, Java

Northern Kentucky University