About Benedict
Senior Software Engineer with 8+ years of experience building scalable web applications using JavaScript/TypeScript, React, Node.js, and Python. Specialized in micro-frontend architectures, authentication and authorization systems, and serverless infrastructure on AWS (Lambda, Cognito, S3, API Gateway). Proven experience with Large Language Model (OpenAI, Azure OpenAI) integrations into production systems. Formal background in computer science and software development, experienced in scalable system design, CI/CD pipelines, distributed systems, and automated software testing techniques.
English
Native or bilingual
Spanish
Fluent
Dutch
Native or bilingual
Remote only
Primarily works remotely
Experience
- Awaze (Novasol)Senior Software EngineerSeptember 2024 - May 2026 (1 year and 8 months)Copenhagen, Denmark
- Developed and maintained micro-frontend (MFE) applications using React, Next.js, TypeScript, and GraphQL within a distributed system architecture supporting high traffic booking flows used by 100,000+ users/month.
- Implemented serverless architectures using AWS Lambda, API Gateway, and DynamoDB to support scalable, low latency services.
- Designed and implemented new authentication and authorization flows using AWS Cognito (RBAC), and centralized token lifecycle management and cross-MFE authentication state synchronization, becoming a core platform dependency across multiple product teams.
- Improved type safety across multiple codebases using TypeScript strict patterns, reducing unexpected production runtime errors by 40-50%.
- Built and enhanced CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions) and monitoring (Sentry), reducing mean time to detection (MTTD) of production issues and minimizing end-user impact.
- Processed and normalized legacy data pipelines, improving data reliability and reducing downstream inconsistencies.
- A.P. Møller - MærskSenior Software EngineerSeptember 2022 - May 2024 (1 year and 8 months)Copenhagen, Denmark
- On the 4th day of joining, accepted ownership and subsequently led the development of an internal application, which was successfully launched in under 3 months.
- Led frontend development of internal innovation platform used across departments, reaching 1000+ users within first launch phase.
- Mentored interns and junior developers, improving delivery speed and code quality across the team.
- Designed scalable frontend architecture using React and TypeScript for enterprise-grade applications.
- Integrated LLM capabilities using Azure OpenAI, enabling AI-assisted workflows for idea generation and evaluation.
- Reduced manual effort in innovation processes by introducing automated classification and suggestion features.
- TameTech LeadDecember 2021 - May 2022 (5 months)Copenhagen, Denmark
- Led engineering team growth from 6 to 12 developers, maintaining delivery velocity during scaling.
- Guided and mentored junior and mid-level developers directly in addition to facilitating team workshops and introducing a framework for dedicated team knowledge sharing.
- Established Agile processes (Scrum), improving team predictability and sprint velocity consistency.
- Delivered MVP in ~3 months, enabling early market validation and stakeholder feedback.
- Implemented testing strategy (unit, integration, e2e), reducing defect leakage by an estimated 30-40%.
- Oversaw timelines and reported directly to executive managers on project progress, problem areas, and potential process or project improvements.
- Introduced structured QA workflows and test coverage standards, resulting in explicitly defined scopes of ownership within the team, eliminating responsibility ambiguity and reducing production issues.
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Education
- Bachelor of Computer ScienceKEA2022Bachelor of Computer Science