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Benjamin Kaiser

Benjamin Kaiser

Senior Software Engineer
Gold Coast, Queensland, AU, QLD
+61491677888
jobs@benkaiser.dev

Background

About

About

Following the completion of my masters, I have worked at Microsoft for 4 years in the SharePoint and Azure teams. With over 5 years of full-time experience as a Software Engineer and over 3 years part-time, my primary skills are in full-stack web development with a focus on highly performant front-end experiences. I am very passionate about open source and the future of the web and I would love to see my work push the boundaries of what is possible with web technology.

Work Experience

Work Experience

  • Senior Software Engineer, Microsoft

    Jan, 2017 - Present

    Worked in the SharePoint and Azure teams on several large-scale projects.

    • Bringing social features to SharePoint in the form of comments and likes.

    • Developing a 'Connected Application Framework' to bring together single page applications across SharePoint for a smoother and faster experience for end users.

    • Converting our web applications to PWAs with rich offline functionality powered by service worker.

    • Various hack projects including significant work to improve inner loop build times for developers, a music player WebPart, and a meme WebPart for SharePoint.

  • Software Engineer, Christian Vision

    Jul, 2016 - Nov, 20165 months

    Worked as part of an Agile team building APIs, websites and mobile applications using primarily Ruby with Heroku as our deployment platform.

    • Technologies: Ruby on Rails, Java (Android), RubyMotion (iOS), Heroku, Github.

  • Software Engineering Intern, Microsoft

    Nov, 2015 - Feb, 20163 months

    Internship at Microsoft Redmond campus.

  • Web Developer, Kaisercraft

    May, 2011 - Jan, 20175 years 9 months

    Developed customer relations and online ordering systems and managed the customer-facing website.

    • Developed an online ordering system that has processed more than 50% of wholesale orders since inception.

    • Created customer-facing website with 40,000+ unique monthly visitors.

    • Built back-end systems for product catalogue management and sales data dashboards.

    • Technologies: LAMP stack, JavaScript, Python, Google Maps API, Google charts, Twitter Bootstrap, Git.

Projects Experience

Projects Experience

  • Stretto

    - Present

    An open source, web-based music player with over 500 stars on GitHub.

    • Built using Node.js back-end and React.js front-end.

    • Features include an Android app, automatic lyric fetching, and mix generation.

  • The Good Stuff - Pizza Finder

    - Present

    A project to help people find Neapolitan-style Pizza when travelling.

    • Built with Node.js, React, and MySQL database.

Skills

Skills

  • Programming Languages

    Python

    Bash

    HTML

    CSS

    JavaScript

    TypeScript

  • Libraries/Tools

    React

    Redux

    React Native

    Node.js

    Ruby on Rails

    MySQL

  • Miscellaneous

    Git

    Linux server admin

Education

Education

  • Software Engineering, MS, The University of Melbourne

    Jan, 2014 - Dec, 2016

  • Technology, BS, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology

    Jan, 2010 - Dec, 2013

  • Business, BS, Swinburne University of Technology

    Jan, 2010 - Dec, 2013

Awards

Awards

  • Google Code-in 2013 Grand Prize Winner , Google

    Awarded on: Jan 01, 2013

    Winner of the global Google Code-in competition.

References

References

  • Phil Smith

    Senior Business Analyst at Youi Insurance. Contact: (+61) 04 2731 4833. Email: On request.

  • Mark Sears

    General Manager at Kaisercraft. Contact: (+61) 03 5240 2000 / (+61) 04 3987 6054. Email: mark.s@kaisercraft.com.au