Ben Cooper's Resume

Education

Vanderbilt University (2020) — B.S. in Computer Science; Minor in World Politics
Illinois Mathematics & Science Academy (2016) — Received Diploma

Experience

Convoy | Software Engineer on Platform & Test

June 2020 - Present

Amazon Web Services | Software Development Intern

Summer 2019

Implemented artifact caching for internal CI system in Java & Ruby
Wrote project pitch & technical design document
Saved thousands of developer & compute hours each week

Art of Problem Solving | Software Engineering Intern

Summer 2018

Designed problem and solution views for students
Worked with Node, Hapi.js, React, HTML Canvas, and ES2018 on massive codebase
Fixed post-launch bugs for live users

VandyHacks IV & V | President, Director & Mentor

2016 - 2020

Organized two 500+ attendee hackathons
Managed $80K budget; drove down expenses to expand number of attendees by ~20%
Led 50 person organizing team across 5 committees
Expanded mini-hackathon program to spread CS culture on campus

Spantree Technology Group | Software Engineering Intern

Summer 2016

Built Slack chatbot in Groovy (JVM) to help 10 person remote team classify billable hours

Selected (Personal) Projects

Vaken

2019

Building open-source hackathon management platform
Deploying dev tooling to increase project velocity
Built with Typescript, GraphQL, and React Hooks
Visit: https://github.com/VandyHacks/vaken

HackIllinois: Rust Hot Module Reloading (HMR)

Feb 2019

Won 2^nd place at HackIllinois out of ~120 entries
Built no-config HMR for Rust modules for open source Javascript bundler
Visit: https://devpost.com/software/wasm-hot-loading-for-parcel

Github Actions Open Source Contributions

2019

Wrote 2 Github integrations to extend repository functionaliy
Contributed to several other open source actions

Firefox Address Bar Expression Parser

2019

Built and released Firefox extension to match Chrome's omnibox's calculator
More accurate than competing extensions for floating point operations
Visit: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/address-bar-math

ArchHacks: Brush Brush Revolution

Nov 2016

Awarded 1^st place and Most Technically Interesting out of 100+ submissions
Used computer vision to track & analyze brushing habits

Skills

Languages: Javascript, Typescript, Java/Groovy, Rust, Python, and R
Technologies: GraphQL, React, Vue, SvelteJS, SQL, (S)CSS, and AWS/Azure/GCP
Other: Public speaking, technical writing, scrum, and mentorship