About

Ben K is a highly accomplished Full Stack Engineer with over 13 years of experience in designing and building large and complex analytical platforms for online, social, search & advertisement, CRM, and financial domains. He has expertise in Java, Javascript, Go, Python, Scala, and React, and has worked extensively in Cloud, Machine Learning, Big Data, Cryptography, and Artificial Intelligence. Ben has a strong background in lead, architect, design, and implementation of large clusters to support analytics platforms, data engineering, and business intelligence solutions. He has worked on ERP and CRM implementations across 7 countries and has strong experience in Cloud platforms such as AWS, Google, and OpenStack. Ben has also worked on Machine Learning algorithms with teams of Data Scientists for Financial, Clinical, and Pharma data. Ben has implemented large Hadoop and HBase Clusters for online search, advertising, and analytics platforms in Amazon Cloud Infrastructure and local machines. He is proficient in writing Map Reduce Jobs, Hive, Pig, Python, Ruby, Java, and SQL. Ben has experience in CI/CD using Jenkins, Chef, Puppet, and Ansible. Currently working as a Software Engineer at Facebook, Ben is contributing to the development of Facebook Mobile Safe and Apache Giraph to make the impossible possible at Facebook-scale. He is also working on Hadoop projects including Corona and Tornado. Ben is contributing to AirBnB's Chronos and Prezi based Impress. Ben has previously worked as a Solutions Architect at BNY Mellon, where he designed, planned, and implemented more than 30 Online and Corporate Data Architecture and Business Intelligence projects across 10 different countries in a global matrix organization using Oracle RAC, Teradata, and Hadoop. He has also worked as a Full Stack Developer at ClearTrial, where he worked on analyzing Hadoop stack and different big data analytic tools, migration from different databases to Hadoop, Hadoop training, Hadoop Administration, NoSQL, competency, and implementing Data engineering and business intelligence solutions to support ERP and CRM implementations across 7 countries. Ben holds a Master's degree in Applied Linguistics from Stanford University and a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science Engineering from NIT Trichy. He is proficient in Software Engineering, Hadoop, ML, SQL, AWS, Web, Data Engineering, Ansible, Puppet, Mobile, CI/CD, Big Data, Python, Java, Jenkins, iOS, Frontend, Backend, Infra, Apache Hive, MySQL, and No