Benjamin Dass
West Lafayette,IN
Overview
9
9
years of professional experience
Work History
Engineering Manager
Purdue Federal Credit Union
01.2024 - Current
- Managing two development teams (7 members total): mentoring and fostering professional growth aligned with organizational goals.
- Oversee third-party vendor and contractor negotiations to meet evolving credit union needs.
- Led the transition of the digital banking platform from Fiserv Architect Theme 4 to Theme 5.
- Overseeing the development of new features and modules for the online digital banking platform to elevate user experience, while collaborating closely with key business units across the credit union.
- Partnering with operations and marketing to streamline and expand VISA statements and notices delivery.
- Managing the development of our internal applications and a chat bot for use of front and back office staff for daily business work.
- Lead project solutioning meetings with key business units—including operations, fraud, commercial, and member services—collaboratively achieving their objectives while ensuring alignment with the strategic goals and vision of our IT department.
Software Engineer
American Express
01.2022 - 01.2024
- Worked as a data software engineer - architecture in the Commercial Charge Risk Strategy group, Credit Fraud Risk organization to develop & architect systems and insights into emerging trends and increase the quality of the portfolio.
- Led a highly scalable CI/CD data project: GitHub, Jenkins, Nexus, Hive, Linux, SQL
- Worked with key stakeholders in developing a new platform to aggregate risk and exposure of clients of exposure 1 million USD and above.
- Analyzed proposed technical solutions based on VPs requirements.
Software Engineer
BYUI
01.2021 - 01.2022
- Worked independently to develop the housing bulletin board: Blazor Sever, DotNet.
- Assisted in rebuilding Student Health Center insurance waiver system.
Software Engineer
StockMotion
01.2020 - 01.2022
- Collaborated with the product engineering team and developed frontend features (account registration, tournaments) based on emerging trends from app users.
- Built backend endpoints to new database contract to stay current with business objectives on Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
- Developed unit tests in Jest for backend endpoints.
- Helped onboard new engineers.
- Analyzed and aggregated costs and quotes on trades calls to IEX Cloud API.
Software Engineer - Team Lead
AmericaHealth
01.2020 - 01.2021
- Architected cloud development on AWS of Electronic Health Record (EHR) System.
- Integrated Twill API for text and voicemail reminder system.
- Interviewed, hired and lead a team of 4 engineers.
- Took initiative and ownership, and built CI/CD pipeline from initial stages to maintaining in production.
- Empowered & managed team in developing and maintaining new EHR System by defining clear objectives, consistency and collaboration within team.
Network Engineer
BYUI
01.2017 - 01.2020
- Developed MAC address scraping tool using JavaScript and Cisco ISE API to maintain an updated list of endpoints.
- Developed automation scripts in bash to notify engineers of endpoint failures across 15,000 devices.
- Assisted and led projects in maintaining, deploying and upgrading core network infrastructure. Managed DNS requests, IPs and MAC records.
Education
Bachelors - Software Engineering
Brigham Young University
IdahoLeverage the Power of Data
Harvard
OnlineSkills
- Python
- React
- Node
- TypeScript
- AWS
- Firebase
- Docker
- HiveQL
- SQL
- Jenkins
- Java
- Ruby
Timeline
Engineering Manager
Purdue Federal Credit Union
01.2024 - Current
Software Engineer
American Express
01.2022 - 01.2024
Software Engineer
BYUI
01.2021 - 01.2022
Software Engineer
StockMotion
01.2020 - 01.2022
Software Engineer - Team Lead
AmericaHealth
01.2020 - 01.2021
Network Engineer
BYUI
01.2017 - 01.2020
Bachelors - Software Engineering
Brigham Young University
Leverage the Power of Data
Harvard