Summary
Benson Chu is a Software Development Engineer II at Amazon Web Services with a decade of engineering experience building reliable systems from internships to production at a major cloud provider. He holds a B.A.Sc. in Computer Science from UC Santa Barbara and has a background of full-stack and systems-focused internships across startups and hardware firms, including ShipHawk, Lumentum, OSIsoft, and VitalMetrics. At AWS he combines practical shipping experience with a curiosity-driven approach to coding—summed up on GitHub as “Yay programming!”—which signals a developer who enjoys tackling diverse problems. Benson’s trajectory shows strength in moving from rapid prototyping in internships to sustaining large-scale cloud services, and he’s comfortable spanning front-end and back-end responsibilities. Based in San Francisco, he brings pragmatic product sensibility to engineering trade-offs and a proven ability to learn quickly in new domains. Notably, his decade-long path reflects steady progression into cloud-native engineering rather than a narrow specialty, making him adaptable to varied technical challenges.
10 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Galileo Academy of Science and Technology
Bachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.), Computer Science at UC Santa Barbara
English, Chinese, Russian