Ben Cohen
Camel Herder at Jane Street
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBen Cohen is a pragmatic product and engineering leader with 13 years of experience building back-end systems and financial data products across startups and large tech firms. He’s held technical and product roles from software engineer and engineering manager at Addepar to product leadership at Google, Lithic, and MongoDB, and now works as a Camel Herder at Jane Street in New York. His domain strengths span low-latency trading systems, reference and market data quality, payments authorization and processing, and telephony/monetization—skills honed by hands-on engineering early in his career and later translated into product strategy. Ben co-founded a machine-learning startup for life insurance and began in quantitative trading and internships at Amazon and DRW, reflecting a mix of entrepreneurial drive and quantitative rigor. He’s known for translating complex data and operational constraints into reliable APIs and tooling that scale.
13 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Acton-Boxborough Regional HSBachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science Electrical and Computer Engineering Computational Finance, Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science Electrical and Computer Engineering Computational Finance at Carnegie Mellon University
Github Skills (56)
linguistics9
autoencoder9
graphql-query9
reinforcement-learning8
typescript8
microsoft7
electron7
machine-translation7
vscode-extension7
vscode7
datasets7
orientdb7
nltk7
machine-learning7
editor7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
benjamincohen1/trumpify
Jan 2016 - Jun 2020
Contributions:22 commits, 2 PRs, 1 push in 4 years 5 months
benjamincohen1/TwitterIntrusionDetection
Dec 2014 - Dec 2014
Contributions:12 commits in 7 days
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