Senior Software Engineer

Ben Huffine

Platform engineering, cloud infrastructure, and AI systems. Building resilient platforms and tools that enable teams to ship confidently.

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Chattanooga, TN Open to senior platform, backend, and AI engineering roles
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Summary

Innovative software engineer with over two decades of experience designing and operating production systems. Recent focus on AWS-based platform engineering, internal developer tooling, and applied AI using retrieval-augmented generation.

Focus Areas

Project Highlights

AI Enablement Platform

Designed shared infrastructure and APIs to enable multiple AI product efforts across a cloud-native platform.

  • Delivered a common API layer to standardize model access and governance.
  • Implemented RAG foundations to align responses with internal data.
  • Enabled rapid prototyping with reusable patterns and deployment tooling.

AWS Bedrock, ECS, Python, Django

Internationalization Tooling

Built translation workflows for a large curriculum platform transitioning to a modern SPA.

  • Created a side-by-side translation interface for machine-assisted review.
  • Streamlined content localization while preserving layout intent.
  • Supported global rollouts with a scalable, versioned pipeline.

React, Node.js, Classic ASP, SQL Server

Cloud Operations Console

Built internal tooling to manage AWS resources, deployments, and operational workflows.

  • Automated infrastructure changes with auditable, repeatable pipelines.
  • Reduced manual toil by centralizing service configuration.
  • Improved reliability with visibility into environment health and events.

AWS CDK, CloudFormation, PostgreSQL

Experience

Platform Engineer, Ambition

2020-2025
  • Designed and maintained AWS infrastructure across ECS, RDS, S3, CloudWatch, and VPC.
  • Deployed resources with custom CloudFormation templates using AWS CDK.
  • Built internal tooling with Python, Django, and PostgreSQL to manage cloud operations.
  • Architected AI APIs and retrieval-augmented generation using AWS Bedrock.

Senior Software Engineer, ACT

2013-2020
  • Modernized a Flash-based curriculum platform into a responsive SPA.
  • Built translation tooling for internationalization and content-aware workflows.
  • Delivered features across Classic ASP, SQL Server, Python, React, Node.js, and PostgreSQL.
  • Contributed to change data capture systems using Java, Kafka, and Jenkins.

Freelance Software Engineer

2011-2013
  • Delivered end-to-end web builds and iOS applications for small and enterprise clients.
  • Managed data processing and database work using Python, Node.js, and SQL.

Senior Programmer, Coptix/Medium

2013-2015
  • Built custom software and database solutions for a diverse client base.
  • Delivered systems across Django, Rails, Classic ASP, Objective-C, and SQL.

Operations Tech Analyst II, UnumProvident

2002-2004
  • Supported a 3,000-employee hardware refresh and automated build verification.
  • Built internal tooling in Perl and C# to reduce deployment errors.

Skills

Languages

Python, Java, JavaScript, Objective-C, PHP, Ruby

Frameworks

Django, React, Node.js, Ruby on Rails

Cloud

AWS ECS, RDS, S3, VPC, CloudWatch, Bedrock, CloudFormation

Data

PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQL Server, ElastiCache

DevOps

AWS CDK, Jenkins, Kafka, Webpack, Babel

Education

Covenant College, Lookout Mountain, GA — Information & Computer Sciences and Philosophy (2002)

Contact

For opportunities or collaboration, reach out via email or LinkedIn.

ben@huffine.me linkedin.com/in/ben-huffine-8b54981