BENJAMIN CARPENTER

Minneapolis, Minnesota
carpenter (dot) ben (at) icloud.com

EDUCATION

Bachelor of Science, Computer Science May 2018
Mathematics Minor
Swenson College of Science and Engineering
University of Minnesota

EXPERIENCE

Software Developer II, May 2020 - Present

Medtronic PLC, Mounds View, MN

• Worked with a worldwide team to triage and fix complex behaviors in a proprietary DSL
• Interpreted formal hardware and software specifications to verify program behavior
• Tested deployed software to observe interaction with physical embedded devices
• Presented and analyzed issues in released code to a regulatory board
• Reviewed code and test results in a highly regulated environment

Software Developer I, June 2018 - May 2020

Open Systems International, Medina, MN

• Developed new data graphing capabilities in Angular to integrate with a C backend
• Refactored legacy C code to meet modern security standards and best practices
• Integrated Phabricator and Jenkins processes to deliver nightly software code analysis results
• Documented findings on the Confluence wiki platform

Software Development Intern, May 2017 - August 2017

Fidelity National Investment Services, Hopkins, MN

• Built a responsive, monolithic Angular app to serve and search large quantities of data
• Presented application and design decisions to other software engineers in a formal setting
• Created an Eclipse IDE plugin to work with existing database entries

SKILLS

Experience in both Linux and Windows, VM and bare metal environments
Practiced in a variety of tools including git, nginx, Azure, Jenkins, Visual Studio, and Powershell
Experience in multiple languages including C#, Python, JavaScript/NodeJS, and Rust

CERTIFICATIONS

AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner, January 2025
Spanish Diploma, Instituto Cervantes, CEFR Level B2, August 2022
Computer Science Tutor, CRLA, January 2017 - May 2018

PERSONALS

github @ReticulatedSpline
Stack Overflow @Reticulated Spline
LinkedIn Benjamin Carpenter
Homepage strlog.net