Who are you?

I’m Ben. I currently work as a Software Developer at Amazon Prime Video. I studied computer science💻 at the University of Chicago, where I graduated with a joint B.S./M.S. in computer science. If you’re curious, you can see my thesis work here!

What do you do?

I currently work at Amazon on the Linear Discovery Services team, where I work on a variety of backend services that support Prime Video’s Linear TV product. My technical interests include database architecture, type theory and functional programming. In general, I like anything that has hard correctness guarantees, and I enjoy the challenge of optimizing a system while ensuring that guarantee is maintained.

I’m also a Lincoln-Douglas debate coach for the DebateDrills club team. I used to coach Lincoln-Douglas debate at Scarsdale High School, I’m also a former instructor for both the National Symposium for Debate and the Victory Briefs Institute.