Chris Benton
Head of Engineering, Backend at Boll & Branch- Claim this Profile
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Experience
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Boll & Branch
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United States
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Retail
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100 - 200 Employee
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Head of Engineering, Backend
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Jan 2022 - Present
- Migrated backend platform from an offsite, third party agency to an in-house Kubernetes cluster on AWS - Increased visibility into system through enhanced logging, monitoring, and alerting - Led the design and development of an integration with a new warehouse - Improved maintainability by redesigning the system’s architecture - introducing multiple layers (data, API/client, service, and business) to decouple logic spread across multiple domains - Migrated backend platform from an offsite, third party agency to an in-house Kubernetes cluster on AWS - Increased visibility into system through enhanced logging, monitoring, and alerting - Led the design and development of an integration with a new warehouse - Improved maintainability by redesigning the system’s architecture - introducing multiple layers (data, API/client, service, and business) to decouple logic spread across multiple domains
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EVERYTHING BUT THE HOUSE (EBTH)
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United States
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Internet Marketplace Platforms
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200 - 300 Employee
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Software Engineer
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Oct 2020 - Jan 2022
- Decomposed a Rails monolith and moved it to distributed Go services running on GKE - Designed categorization mechanism for products, enabling more accurate SEO and search results within the site - Built CI/CD pipelines for Rails, Node, Go, Python apps - Led a team of 7 backend engineers - Decomposed a Rails monolith and moved it to distributed Go services running on GKE - Designed categorization mechanism for products, enabling more accurate SEO and search results within the site - Built CI/CD pipelines for Rails, Node, Go, Python apps - Led a team of 7 backend engineers
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Leidos
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United States
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IT Services and IT Consulting
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700 & Above Employee
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Software Engineer
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Feb 2018 - Aug 2019
- Developed, tested, and integrated communication links for aircraft systems - Developed software for controlling sensors on multiple aircraft systems - Established a lab environment for monitoring/profiling latency and responsiveness of data links, spanning across in house software, networking tools, and simulation software - Developed, tested, and integrated communication links for aircraft systems - Developed software for controlling sensors on multiple aircraft systems - Established a lab environment for monitoring/profiling latency and responsiveness of data links, spanning across in house software, networking tools, and simulation software
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SCC Instruments
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Ross, Ohio, United States
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Software Developer
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Feb 2016 - Jan 2018
- Developed software to automate shop processes: inventory, cut lists, and test cells - Cut lists provided necessary wire lengths, terminal counts, and connector configurations - Test cells programmatically verified circuitry by running against a suite of tests created with cut lists - Developed software to automate shop processes: inventory, cut lists, and test cells - Cut lists provided necessary wire lengths, terminal counts, and connector configurations - Test cells programmatically verified circuitry by running against a suite of tests created with cut lists
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US Army
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United States
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Armed Forces
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700 & Above Employee
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Sergeant (E-5)
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Jun 2006 - Feb 2012
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Education
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Miami University
Master's degree, Computer Science -
The Ohio State University
International Studies, International Security and Intelligence