Ajay Benno

Ajay Benno is a Software Engineer specializing in infrastructure at Assembled since July 2024. Prior to this role, Ajay served as Engineering Manager and later as a Senior Software Engineer at Yext from August 2019 to May 2024, where notable contributions included leading the development of a Universal Analytics Events API and prototyping KafkaConnect, which handles over 40 million messages daily. Ajay's experience also includes serving as a Teaching Assistant for Database Systems at Carnegie Mellon University from December 2017 to December 2018, and completing a Software Engineering Internship focused on performance engineering at Redfin in the summer of 2018. Ajay holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University, earned in May 2019.