About Me

Hi, I'm Ben.

As of May 2025 I'm a Principal Engineer at Amazon IVS and Twitch where I've worked since 2019. I focus on Amazon IVS's Low Latency HLS product where I've done everything from ship features like Timed Metadata or SRT to behind-the-scenes infrastructural changes like aggregating our origin datacenters' transcode capacities and exposing that to our global ingest dataplane or casually leading a multi-year effort to migrate from our managed bare metal datacenters/network to AWS. Lately I've been getting more into how we manage our CDN and how to work with the AWS network to ensure our high-throughput video services continue to deliver great video quality to our customers.

Basically networks are fun, make video good.

In the past I've worked on Amazon Cloud Cam (RIP) where I worked on our WebRTC SFU and computer vision pipeline. Before that I worked at CENTR Cam (Also RIP) doing things like optimizing image processing kernels to dewarp fisheye cameras and blend them for Movidius' (RIP-ish?) "vector processing units" and generally trying to get things done for my first job out of college.

In college I was interested in GPU programming and programming language design. Still am.

I'd describe myself as a software engineer who knows how to get things done and has ended up working on some very high-scale video systems, so I have a good knowledge base in video processing, distributed systems, and cloud datacenters. One of my favorite compliments from a manager was "I don't have to worry when I put you on a project because I know you'll move it forward somehow."