Ben Olmstead

ben+resume-1108@xn13.com / 1-206-883-7832
Sunnyvale, CA; willing to relocate

Current version at http://xn13.com/ben-olmstead-resume.html

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Employment

Member of Technical Staff - Senior Software Engineer (2011-present)

Google

I recently joined the Chrome team, working on the Apps and Extensions subsystem of the Chrome web browser.

Senior Software Development Engineer (2009-2011)

(Amazon.com Subsidiary) Lab126

I worked on the Amazon Kindle, primarily on the system daemons, written in C. Bullet points here are vague, because they pertain to unreleased products and/or features.

Software Development Engineer (2007-2009)

Amazon.com

I worked on the Global Financial Systems (GFS) team, leading a group of developers in maintaining and improving Amazon's C++ and Perl financial reporting systems.

Senior Software Developer (2005-2007)

PSI (via merger with ODS Software)

I refactored a 1,000,000-line thick-client transaction-processing program in C#, solidifying core code while continuing to add new features.

Software Engineer (2000-2004)

Polycom (via acquisition of Voyant Technologies)

I wrote control software for custom voice conferencing telephony bridges, using C++, Perl, Java, C#, Ruby, and shell scripting. I took primary ownership of the end-user-facing web interface and the core threading, networking, and serialization framework.

Education

Bachelor's of Computer Science equivalent.