Benjamin Hill

Education

Skills

Experience

Indeed

Software Engineer - Austin, Texas
Februrary 2020 – April 2023

Enterprise Equitable Hiring Team - Founding Engineer

• Reduced education requirements on 90% of newly posted jobs. Modified default options presented to employers on Indeed’s Job Requirements page; thus helping job seekers who face biases and barriers, without impacting key business metrics. In one quarter this resulted in 108M job seekers achieve more favorable outcomes. [Kotlin, React]
• Implemented a design review document creation wizard. This tool created a custom design review document, aligned with Indeed’s best design review practices, with sections generated depending on user responses. [Appscript]

SMB Jobs Platform Team

• Created the job editing page. Hosted design reviews and accepted feedback on implementation suggestions from senior engineers and managers. Stubbed out all related tickets, and completed 80% of them, coordinating with contractors for the remaining 20%. Led to the creation of a job editing page for employers to change any aspect of their posted job. Used over 4.3 million times. [React, Typescript, GraphQL, Formik]
• Designed and created the job publishing feature for the job posting funnel reimplementation effort. This is used by 100% of employers, over 2.78 million times. [React, Typescript, GraphQL, Formik]
• Created and maintained a NoSQL database to manage a service for internal segment managers to create A/B experiments based on an employers locale. Prototyped using MongoDB, hosted on AWS as a DocumentDB, maintained with Terraform.
• Individually owned key team KR to decrease the amount of page loads over 3 seconds on the job editing page. Exceeded this KR goal by 141.58%, by deferring unnecessary renders on and off the page. [React]

Indeed University

• Lead engineer developing a product for people to record themselves answering interview questions, to then be reviewed by employers asynchronously. Used by 24,000 distinct employers over 48,000 times. [React, Typescript, Terraform, AWS]

Platform-UI

• Developed, maintained, and supported a plugin platform for partner teams to dynamically add their content to the Indeed for employers portal. Updated documentation, authored team blog posts, and served as a First Responder.
• Streamlined new plugin development process by creating a new plugin generation tool in PlopJS. Over three years, this process has been used over 8,309 times to create production-ready plugins. Reduced plugin initialization time by 98%, saving over 600 work-hours for engineers.

Younicos

Projects Engineering Intern - Austin, Texas
August 2016 – August 2017

• Managed implementation and deployment of five new product testing solutions.
• Saved the company over 2000 dollars by modeling and building a capacitor bank used for certification testing.
• Reduced the ongoing cost of certification labeling by 20% per unit after designing an in-house label manufacturing system.

Tether

Startup Co-Founder - Austin, Texas
June 2016 – August 2016

• Prototyped and modeled solutions to pain points in finding and joining student organizations.
• Collaborated with over 25 student organizations to integrate them with the platform.
• Post discussing Tether

Projects

• Awarded 2nd place overall out of a total of 52 CS Senior Design teams at UT Dallas.
• Incepted and designed a modular architecture for a UAV to detect and dodge projectiles with machine vision using Python
• Directly engaged with our corporate mentor at Raytheon to integrate the software with the Linux based hardware platform, ensure on-time delivery for each sprint, and re-evaluate our product roadmap over the course of the project.
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• Formed a team to build a website encouraging civic engagement through gamification and fun challenges.
• Used Angular.JS as the frontend framework, with a Firebase backend for real-time updates.
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• Volunteered to develop iOS application in Swift to simplify volunteer onboarding process.
• Designed a decodable class for efficient API data handling, and a real-time database for immediate updates.
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• Developed a Node.JS backend for a website to reduce the difficulty in learning about certain crypto currencies.
• Scraped Twitter data and used IBM Watson Tone analysis to determine the outlook of certain coins in JavaScript.
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Leadership Experience & Activities

• Mentoring 15 exceptional Computer Science students to develop ideas and build entrepreneurially viable products, including a React Apps, a Native iOS app, and an open source web project for ACM Ignite.
• Scrum Master for a team of five CS freshman and sophomores, using Agile methodologies, to build a website using a MEAN stack.
• Conducted over 400 in-person interviews with applicants to the Projects team at ACM. Determined who would be members or officers during that semester.
• Project I mentored during this time

• Hosted the German radio talk show - “Es Klingt Wie Deutsch": the longest running radio program in KVRX history, with several regular co-hosts.

• Led the team to twice compete in the men’s youth national rowing championships.