Ben Allison
Software Engineer at Facebook
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolBen Allison is a seasoned software engineer and architect with over a decade of experience designing and managing large-scale consumer entertainment and professional A/V systems used by hundreds of millions. He’s built and evolved well-known streaming and media products—Winamp, SHOUTcast, iHeartRadio, Spotify, HBO GO and AOL Video—bringing deep expertise in DSP, MPEG standards, and high-performance streaming. A low-level systems specialist, Ben pairs over 20 years of C/C++ and assembly experience with modern mobile stacks (iOS/Android and NDK), custom rendering engines, cross-platform UI frameworks and 3D visualization. He has led engineering teams up to VP level and now contributes software expertise at Facebook, blending hands-on implementation with architectural leadership. Notably, his career spans both iconic consumer media pioneers and large platform players, giving him a rare perspective on building media experiences that scale and perform. Based in New York with a CS degree from Virginia Tech, he thrives on solving hard multimedia and performance challenges across platforms.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at Virginia Tech
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Github Skills (26)
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Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
benski/BAPromise
Jun 2015 - Sep 2020
Swift & Objective C Promise Library
Contributions:2 reviews, 185 commits, 21 PRs in 5 years 3 months
objective-cswift
HBOCodeLabs/pixate-freestyle-ios
Apr 2015 - Apr 2015
Contributions:1 PR, 3 pushes in 2 days
freestyleswiftios
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