Benson Lin

4th Year, Computer Science Major

(778)994-XXXX  * bensonlin@live.ca * www.linkedin.com/in/benson-lin94

Work Experience

Software Development Engineer Intern September 2021 – December 2021
Amazon, Vancouver, BC
• Designed and implemented automation as an alternative to a manual recharge process for past due invoices to lower manual effort and increase revenue
• Handled project ambiguity by meeting with relevant stakeholders to identify requirements and
challenges that the project faces
• Deployed automation infrastructure and orchestration workflow using TypeScript and AWS CDK

Site Reliability Engineer Co-op January 2021 – August 2021
Visier Inc., Vancouver, BC
• Implemented a suite of end-to-end tests in Ruby that ran hourly against developer and production deployments through an ECS task
• Reduced monthly AWS costs by creating an automated job that deletes unused AMIs and EBS
snapshots that are older than 30 days
• Utilized Terraform to tag AWS resources to enable the ability to filter resources for billing and
monitoring purposes

Software Development Engineer Intern September 2020 – December 2020
Amazon, Vancouver, BC
• Designed and implemented a set of RESTful APIs backed by API Gateway and AWS Lambda
that automates the trouble ticket resolution process
• Implemented logic to allow AWS Lambda to query databases such as DynamoDB, Elasticsearch
and Redshift and to format a JSON response to serve to users
• Provisioned and deployed AWS resources using CloudFormation templates in YAML to serve as the infrastructure for the APIs
• Authored API proposal and design documents to highlight the use cases of the APIs and cost
effectiveness of possible architectural solutions

Undergraduate Teaching Assistant September 2019 – December 2019
University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC
• Held office hours and assisted with lectures to improve students’ understanding of core Java concepts
• Coordinated labs to support students by providing feedback on assignments and personal projects

Education

University of British Columbia, Vancouver 2018 – Present
BSc, Major in Computer Science, 4th Year

Projects

Digital Walk-around January – April 2022
• Designed and implemented a fullstack application in a group setting according to specifications provided from a corporate sponsor to allow users within an organization to schedule Zoom calls
and to view other users’ meeting schedules

Technical Skills

Programming: Java, TypeScript, Python, Ruby, Bash, HTML/CSS, SQL
Software & Tools: IntelliJ, VS Code, Git, AWS, Docker, Terraform, Selenium, Unix

References Available Upon Request