Summary
Trevor Bender is a pragmatic software engineer with 16 years of experience building reliable, test-driven systems, currently contributing at Paychex from Rochester, NY. He brings deep expertise in object-oriented design, Agile practices and TDD across languages including Java, C/C++, Python and Groovy. At Xerox he led initiatives that reduced costs and improved compliance—designing license validation, enabling FIPS compliance via an OpenSSL-Java wrapper, and automating regression testing with FitNesse. Trevor pairs hands-on embedded and backend engineering with a habit of tooling and scripting to save developer time and streamline release processes. He also mentors peers through demos and tooling adoption, helping teams raise their engineering bar.
16 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Engineering, Computer Engineering at Rochester Institute of Technology