Aaron Benz
Founder, CEO at CampusIQ (formerly Degree Analytics)
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAaron Benz is a founder and CEO with 12 years of data science and entrepreneurship experience, specializing in large-scale analytics and IoT-driven behavioral insights for higher education. A pure mathematician by training, he built Degree Analytics (formerly CampusIQ) to close graduation gaps using a cloud platform that ingests and analyzes campus behavior, and he holds a patent for location-based monitoring. Aaron has productionized big-data systems at scale—from Cassandra and Hadoop stacks to real-time density monitoring and contact tracing—and led a successful Series A raise. His research stint at the Broad Institute and conference talks at Strata-Hadoop World reflect a rare blend of academic rigor and product-focused execution. Beyond tech, he channels competitive discipline from his All-America lacrosse career into coaching and a values-driven leadership style informed by a personal “Lion Chaser” manifesto.
12 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Mathematics Mathematics, Mathematics Mathematics at University of St AndrewsBachelor of Science in Mathematics Minor in Astronomy Mathematics/Astronomy, Bachelor of Science in Mathematics Minor in Astronomy Mathematics/Astronomy at Eastern University
Github Skills (50)
mahout9
java9
datastax9
crud8
cassandra7
rest7
apache7
authentication7
flask-restful7
flask7
python7
rest-api7
google-charts6
rbac6
uwsgi6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
aaronbenz/caspanda
Apr 2015 - Oct 2017
Contributions:45 commits, 23 PRs, 37 pushes in 2 years 5 months
pythonpandascassandra
aaronbenz/rpackages
Jan 2015 - Jan 2016
Contributions:4 commits, 3 pushes in 1 year
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