Ben Cook
Omaha, Nebraska, United States
Summary
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SeniorBen Cook is a Machine Learning Engineer and entrepreneur with 11 years of experience building production ML systems and teams, currently leading Sparrow Computing to help startups take prototypes to integrated, real-world solutions. Previously he scaled Hudl’s applied ML organization from first data scientist to Research and Engineering Director, shipping production optical player-tracking and company-wide ML-as-a-service. Comfortable at the intersection of research and engineering, he combines hands-on model development, data engineering for terabyte-scale pipelines, and leadership of cross-functional teams. His academic background in computational science and sociology gives him a practical knack for turning complex data into actionable products and for designing experiments that balance rigor with deployability.
11 years of coding experience
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Github Skills (148)
athena10
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sagemaker10
huggingface10
deep-learning10
polygon10
heatmap10
jax10
boto10
data-science10
tensorflow10
affine-transformation10
image-augmentation10
pytorch10
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Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
sparrowml/sparrow-tracky
Jun 2022 - Oct 2025
Object tracking and metrics
Contributions:4 reviews, 12 PRs, 51 pushes in 3 years 4 months
metricsmonitoringobject-trackingtracking
sparrowml/sparrow-mlpipes
Nov 2021 - Sep 2022
Tools for Nvidia DeepStream
Contributions:3 reviews, 64 commits, 14 PRs in 10 months
deepstreamnvidia
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