Software Engineer — Boston, MA

Benson Lin

Software engineer building reliable full-stack products with Java, Spring Boot, Python, PostgreSQL, and Next.js. WPI B.S./M.S. Computer Science graduate based in Boston.

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Open to entry-level Software Engineer and Full-Stack Engineer roles.

Featured Work

Engineering products from data layer to interface

Three full-stack systems selected for their technical depth, product clarity, and end-to-end ownership.

01Limited-inventory commerce platform

DropForge

A limited-inventory marketplace with temporary reservations, simulated checkout, expiration handling, cancellation, order creation, and automatic inventory restoration.

Engineering FocusTransactional inventory consistency

Built reservation and checkout workflows with Java, Spring Boot, Spring Data JPA, and PostgreSQL.
Used database constraints and transactional service logic to preserve inventory consistency across reservation, expiration, cancellation, and checkout flows.
Deployed the Spring Boot API and PostgreSQL on Railway and the Next.js frontend on Vercel.

81 backend tests

49 frontend tests

Live production deployment

Java
Spring Boot
PostgreSQL
Next.js
Docker
Railway
Vercel

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02Professor intelligence platform

Orbit

A professor discovery and comparison tool for WPI students using scraped faculty and RateMyProfessors data, structured teaching signals, search, filtering, professor detail pages, and schedule-planning context.

Engineering FocusETL and review-signal extraction

Built a data pipeline for faculty and review ingestion.
Extracted workload, grading, difficulty, and teaching signals from review text.
Delivered a searchable Next.js product with professor comparison and detailed review analysis.

Next.js
FastAPI
PostgreSQL
Python

Live Demo ↗

03Observability and incident triage platform

Vigil

A full-stack observability platform that ingests service events, detects anomalies, creates incidents, and generates structured root-cause and remediation guidance.

Engineering FocusEvent ingestion and incident detection

Built asynchronous event ingestion with FastAPI and PostgreSQL.
Added anomaly detection and structured incident classification.
Streamed dashboard updates over WebSockets.

FastAPI
PostgreSQL
Python
Next.js
WebSockets
Docker

Live Demo ↗

Experience

Applied engineering and research

Aug 2025 — Mar 2026

Microsoft-Sponsored WPI Project

Software Engineer

Built a telemetry pipeline that captured Win32 UI events and reconstructed raw interaction signals into semantic workflow graphs.
Applied Hidden Markov Models and Viterbi decoding alongside dead-click, rage-click, and cyclical-navigation heuristics to identify workflow anomalies.
Evaluated detection quality against human-labeled data using precision, recall, and F1.

Mar 2025 — Jun 2025

SerenDPT — Venice, Italy

Data Analyst / Software Developer

Cleaned and analyzed 4,000+ infrastructure data points across 126 historic city islands using Python and Node.js workflows.
Used ArcGIS geospatial analysis to model accessibility, congestion, infrastructure, and tourism-load signals.
Produced an accessibility scoring model and published the supporting open-source dataset and research.

More Projects

Additional systems work

Riftbound Sigils

Mobile game systems

A mobile xianxia roguelite built with Phaser and TypeScript, featuring configurable gacha probabilities, pity mechanics, progression systems, auto-battle, versioned saves, and offline rewards.

Phaser 3
TypeScript
Game Architecture
State Persistence

Play ↗ GitHub ↗

Huddle Chat

Real-time commuter chat

A commuter chat product with real-time messages, threads, reactions, replies, and live MBTA train and stop data, validated during a live transit commute.

Next.js
TypeScript
MBTA API
Docker

Live ↗ GitHub ↗

Mass General Brigham Hospital Routing

Building dependable systems with a clear product purpose

I’m a WPI B.S./M.S. Computer Science graduate based in Boston. I like working across backend architecture, data-intensive products, and the interfaces that make complex systems understandable.

Seeking entry-level Software Engineer and Full-Stack Engineer roles in the Boston area or remote.

Java
Spring Boot
Python
FastAPI
TypeScript
React / Next.js
PostgreSQL
Docker
AWS

Contact

Let’s talk engineering

I’m looking for entry-level Software Engineer, Full-Stack Engineer, and Backend Engineer opportunities in Boston or remote.

EmailBensonLin9801@gmail.com LinkedInbenson-lin-bl ↗ GitHubgithub.com/Zirins ↗ Phone+1 (818) 852-1807 RésuméView Résumé ↗