Ben is a software developer at Citus Data. Prior to working at Citus Data, Ben spent over 8 years at Amazon working on diverse areas such as personalization, search relevance, and distributed website rendering. His most recent 4 years at Amazon were spent working on AWS where was an early developer on CloudFront and a founding member of the Route 53 team. Ben holds a BMath in Computer Science from the University of Waterloo and has come a long way from his humble upbringing on the mean streets of Canada.