Ben Osborne
| Software Architect |
AWS Serverless & Container Platforms |
.NET |
Professional Summary
Software architect and full-stack engineer with experience delivering cloud-native applications and integration platforms. Specializes in AWS serverless, containerized, and event-driven architectures; .NET services; and reliable delivery practices. Brings a record of technical leadership through reference architectures, engineering standards, prototypes, and mentoring.
Technical Skills
- Cloud architecture: AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate; serverless, containerized, event-driven, and multi-account/landing-zone architectures
- AWS: Lambda, ECS, Fargate, Batch, DynamoDB, S3, SES, Route 53, API Gateway, SNS, SQS, RDS, Aurora, and EFS
- Application development: .NET and ASP.NET
- Data and messaging: PostgreSQL, SQL Server, and RabbitMQ
- Platform engineering: Terraform, GitHub Actions, Docker, continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD)
- Technical leadership: Architecture standards, reference implementations, prototyping, mentoring, and engineering practices
Employment History
Software Architect (November 2020—Present)
- Designed event-driven AWS workflows using RabbitMQ, Amazon ECS Fargate, and AWS Batch.
- Created a blue/green deployment reference implementation using API Gateway and Lambda that was adopted across the organization.
- Established tools, patterns, and reference architectures for Amazon Aurora Serverless PostgreSQL databases and migration projects.
- Served as one of the principal architects for the redesign of IntelliScript’s backend API, supporting a complete UI rewrite of the organization’s flagship web application.
- Provide architectural direction through prototypes, standards, patterns, and mentoring for engineers across the organization.
Software Development Team Lead (September 2019—October 2020)
- Led a development team delivering Windows microservices for multi-vendor data integrations and downstream processing.
- Led adoption of unit testing by establishing team patterns and standards.
Software Developer (May 2017—August 2019)
- Developed and deployed mock web APIs to Azure to support development and testing of API-consumption services.
Senior Application Developer (October 2014—May 2017)
- Delivered full-stack ASP.NET development and production support.
- Built a new intranet on ASP.NET MVC and trained other developers on the framework and approach.
- Developed business modules for invoice dispute resolution, recruiting, licensing, phone and SMS automation, and code-violation tracking.
- Established automated functional testing for web applications with Selenium and introduced continuous integration.
- Transitioned the codebase from SourceSafe to Team Foundation Server and implemented source control for SQL Server databases.
AWS Community Day speaker
Education
- B.A., Philosophy, cum laude, 2000
- Political Science minor