Ben Chu
Founder at Stealth Startup
Berkeley, California, United States
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Top SchoolBen Chu is a data engineer based in Berkeley with 11 years of hands-on experience building data and ML solutions across consulting and product teams, currently at McKinsey & Company. He holds a Master’s in Information and Data Science and a BA in Economics with a Data Science and Music minor from UC Berkeley, blending analytical rigor with creative problem-solving. His background spans end-to-end NLP and ML pipelines—classifying articles with KNN on AWS, building custom search and tagging systems, and deploying production-ready data engineering solutions. Comfortable in both startup and enterprise contexts, he’s delivered measurable impact such as automating workflows that saved thousands in labor and boosting operational productivity. Outside of engineering he’s an avid traveler and soccer player, which informs a collaborative, team-oriented approach to product development.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Information and Data Science, Master's degree Information and Data Science at University of California, Berkeley
English, Chinese, Spanish
Stackoverflow
13reputation
2kreached
5answers
10questions
Github Skills (13)
internet-connection6
debugging6
caching6
api6
firebase-authentication6
firebase6
backend6
axios6
mysql6
java6
annotations2
game-development2
jackson1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
WorldGenerator/WorldGen
Apr 2018 - Apr 2018
Contributions:38 commits, 24 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
interactive-gameworldgengamegame-development
tmjchu/budgeting-app-opensource
Jun 2026 - Jul 2026
Contributions:6 pushes, 1 branch in 6 days
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