Benjamin Turner's answers

At Amazon, I re-built the Your Account Order History, Order Details, and Edit Order features for Amazon and partner websites, paying special attention to performance and security issues.

When I moved the Performance/Monitoring team, I developed a new hardware/software monitoring portal for Amazon engineers, incorporating multiple types of visualization techniques for keeping tabs on the many thousands of data streams regarding performance, reliability, etc....

Folks from my team go kayaking on Lake Washington almost every weekend during the summer.

The Monitoring Team (aka Performance) was full of smart, supportive, and helpful people. The folks were great about training both within and outside the group.

My friend Robert almost always seems to wear shorts & sandals. Perhaps he just wants to be ready if the sun happens to appear through Seattle's gray skies....