Ben Nowak
Software Engineer
Platform-agnostic, polyglot software engineer with experience in full-stack, backend, and dev-ops seeking opportunities with a high functioning product team at a mission-driven company. Interested in working with clear processes, procedures, and goals. Possesses excellent communication ability, a high view of integrity, and a mature level of professionalism
Software Engineering • Full-Stack Development • Backend Development • Cloud Computing
Distributed Systems • Microservices • Product Design • Domain Driven Design
Readme Driven Development • Documentation • UI/UX • Discovery • Information Architecture
Work Experience
- Built big-data ETL processes supporting data aggregation for analytics with AWS and Golang
- Contributed to serverless web applications using React.js, Node, C# and Golang
- Upgraded critical full-stack (React.js/C#) app, improving performance and user experience
- Led discovery interviews and UI/UX design for new features and products with Figma and Adobe CC
- Developed solutions on AWS with Lambda, S3, DynamoDB and RDS
- Mentored college students through Road To Hire and Golden Door Scholars programs
- 12-week cohort focused on Cloud, CI/CD Pipelines, and DevOps using AWS, Azure, and GCP
- Deepened knowledge of SaaS, PaaS, IaaS for complex applications and production environments
- Assisted instructional activities at UNC Charlotte Data Visualization Bootcamp
- Supported environment configurations and tool installs for students with diverse experience ranges
- Lead breakout training sessions on various data analysis and visualization tools and technologies
Education
- With Honors, Dean’s List, 3.8 GPA
- Chapter President, Phi Theta Kappa Honors Society
- Represented school in overseas cohort “Odyssey 2004”
- Presented interactive design concept to Nokia Media Labs
Technical Skills
JavaScript, TypeScript, Golang, SQL, HTML/CSS, Python, Bash, C#, Java, Groovy, C/C++, HCL, YAML, Markup
Linux (Ubuntu/Debian/FreeBSD), macOS, Windows 10
React.js, Next.js, Gatsby, GraphQL, Docker, AWS Serverless, Wordpress
Git, GitHub, Postman, NPM/Yarn, Webpack, Babel, JIRA, JetBrains (IntelliJ IDEA / xStorm / DataGrip), Visual Studio Code, MySQL Workbench, Adobe CC Suite, Sketch, Figma
CI/CD Automation, Cloud Computing, API Development, Data Analysis & Visualization, UI/UX, Design Systems, Agile, Product Design, Web Applications, Systems Development Management
- Association of Computing Machinery – Professional Member
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate