About

Ben Sandler is a highly skilled Senior Software Engineer with over 4 years of experience in the technology industry. Currently, he is working at Stripe, a fintech company that provides payment processing services for businesses. As a Senior Software Engineer at Stripe, Ben is responsible for developing and maintaining software systems that enable the company to provide its customers with efficient and secure payment processing solutions. Prior to joining Stripe, Ben worked at Opendoor, where he created automated pricing and home valuation systems that allowed the company to buy and sell billions of dollars of residential real estate annually. He owned real-time Python services to make offers on over 1 million homes and user-facing applications used by finance, executive, and operations teams. In addition, he spearheaded a large-scale, multi-quarter re-architecture of pricing systems that resulted in a new 'API' that calculated more accurate prices and was 60% faster. Ben also built several data applications and ETLs to produce millions of pricing and profitability forecasts on homes utilizing machine learning models. Ben has also worked at Google as an Associate Product Manager Intern, where he oversaw product development for Firebase Dynamic Links, a core part of Google's developer platform. He led a team of engineers and designers and worked with business development, support, legal, and technical writers to ensure the successful launch of the product. Ben holds a Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science from the University of Pennsylvania and completed his high school education at Cypress Bay High School. He is proficient in a wide range of technologies, including Ruby, Spark, Apache Airflow, Pandas, Flask, Postgres, and Python. Ben's expertise in software engineering, machine learning, and product management makes him a valuable asset to any organization.