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Ben Gurevich

Boston,MA

Overview

6
6
years of professional experience

Work History

Assistant Web Developer / Technology Assistant

Keys to Literacy and Learning
03.2019 - Current
  • Contributed to the development of the Keys to Literacy and Learning website, utilizing HTML, CSS, and PHP for user integration and data handling for all our administrators.
  • Develop and distribute weekly newsletters to the KTLL team detailing technical info and weekly expectations.

Software Engineering Intern

Optum - UnitedHealth Group
06.2024 - 08.2024
  • Created a real-time data streaming system using Apache Kafka and Go, filtering and formatting millions of canonical Avro data, resulting in $60,000 annual savings and potential $10 million savings organization-wide.
  • With a team, used Kubernetes and Docker to efficiently containerize and deploy our project for the SAEO team, delivering enhanced solutions to the team's 135+ downstream consumers within Optum.
  • Developed a Grafana dashboard to showcase project efficiency and cost savings, demonstrating a 67% reduction in resource consumption for company servers.

Software Engineering Co-op

Alpine Software - Subsidiary of Banyan Software
01.2023 - 08.2023
  • Collaborated with lead software engineers to support 700+ fire and EMS departments worldwide, including providing personalized customer solutions at 4 different trade shows.
  • Led an independent project to recreate a 24/7 active dashboard using the Flutter framework. The dashboard integrated live SQL data and MapBox, which resulted in a 23% cost reduction monthly within our Azure servers.
  • Created personalized reports in Delphi for 25 different departments to display fire department data, volunteer point reporting, and safety-course evaluations, utilizing SQL for data retrieval based on user requirements.

Skills

  • Java, Python, Go, C, C#, React, TypeScript, Flutter, PostgreSQL, PHP, HTML & CSS
  • Git, AWS, Azure, Rest, Kafka, Docker, Jest, Kubernetes, Terraform, Grafana, Agile, Scrum, Linux

Education

Rochester Institute of Technlogy - Rochester, NY August 2020 - May 2025


Bachelor of Science in Software Engineering

Projects

MisTeePro App & Portal - Senior Capstone | August 2024 - June 2025

  • Collaborated with a team of four to develop the MisTeePro App, a bilingual app for IOS and Android, supporting 7+ user roles, 3 subscription tiers, and payment integration using Stripe.
  • Implemented AI-driven hair type recognition using AWS Rekognition, which was trained over 1,000 images spanning over 12 different hair types, included are also custom detection regions for the model too.
  • Built an administrative web portal using React, enabling tracking of commissions, product inventory, and bugs that have been reported within the app.
  • Designed 50+ wireframes on Figma for both systems, and created these wireframes on the product side using React Native, Typescript, and emulation hosted by Expo.


Coins of Olympus NFT - Personal Project | September 2021 - February 2022

  • Created a non-fungible token with a team, which included implementing an algorithm to image process the artwork automatically.
  • Developed a Discord bot that provides real-time price tracking for the Olympus (DHM) decentralized currency.
  • Additionally, I created a contemporary website that effectively conveyed deployment information about the project and allowed users to purchase the token using the user’s MetaMask wallet.

Timeline

Software Engineering Intern

Optum - UnitedHealth Group
06.2024 - 08.2024

Software Engineering Co-op

Alpine Software - Subsidiary of Banyan Software
01.2023 - 08.2023

Assistant Web Developer / Technology Assistant

Keys to Literacy and Learning
03.2019 - Current
Ben Gurevich