Benjamin Kenawell

Work Experience
Software Engineer at Remark on 2022 and ongoing
  • Build a lightweight, full featured chat utility to be hosted on others' sites
  • Create a powerful administration experience for the chat utility
  • Provide a good developer experience in our repos
  • Explore and teach best practices for many parts of our technology stack and the web
  • Learn, practice and preach good programming principles
Software Engineer at Outdoorly on 2021 and ongoing
  • Provide a straighforward buying experience for verified experts
  • Help scale up number of buyers our site could handle at once
Software Engineer at Microsoft on 2018 until 2021
  • Promote a better employee experience by writing intuitive and accessible internal web applications for enterprise by leveraging Typescript and React/Redux while maintaining team and name coding standards
  • Create a better customer experience on the Sharepoint Platform
  • Collaborate with other teams across products to deliver well-written, thoughtful improvements to SERP and emploees' experience
  • Write, refactor, and modernize C# applications to better connect disparate enterprise experiences
  • Facilitate strategic decisions to determine the highest proirity work for the next sprint/quarter/year
Software Development Intern at Microsoft on 2017 until 2017
  • Develop IT productivity tools and data driven graphics for highly visual internal telemetry (d3.js)
  • Learn and teach team dynamics in a business programming environment
Resident Assistant at Penn State Residence Life on 2016 until 2017
  • Assist students in their transition from grade school at home to life in a residence hall at a university
  • Create a sense of community in a residence hall floor so it may be a place everyone has a voice and feels welcome
Lab Consultant and Supervisor at Penn State ITS Lab Consultant on 2014 until 2018
  • Assist students and faculty troubleshoot computer lab equipment
  • Maintain professionalism and improve community amoung the staff
  • Keep up-to-date inventory for labs across campus
Education
The Pennsylvania State University - Class of 2018

Major: BS Computer Engineering

Minor: Entrepreneurship and Innovation

Awards and Certifications

Eagle Scout - from Boy Scouts of America, Troop 2

SAFe 4.6 Certified - 2020 from Microsoft