Ben Decoste
Co-Founder at Cape
Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
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Top SchoolBen Decoste is a Co-Founder and seasoned software engineer with 14 years of experience building backend systems, mobile tooling, and privacy-preserving ML infrastructure from Halifax, Nova Scotia. He co-founded Cape after earlier startup experience at Sidestory and a formative engineering tenure through GoInstant and Salesforce, where he worked across front-end, backend, and Android SDKs. Hands-on contributor to OpenMined’s PySyft, he’s added core tensor operations, loss functions, and grid training support—demonstrating expertise at the intersection of ML engineering and secure, distributed data science. Comfortable moving between startup execution and deep technical implementation, Ben blends product-minded leadership with contributions to open-source privacy tooling like tf-encrypted and Cape Privacy.
14 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Computer Science, Bachelor of Computer Science at Dalhousie University
English
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Github Skills (22)
pytorch10
operation10
python10
tensorrt10
machine-learning10
tensorflow10
federated-learning10
tensor10
deep-learning9
keras9
api7
apidoc7
nodejs6
aes-gcm6
tdd6
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
OpenMined/PySyft
Nov 2017 - Oct 2019
Perform data science on data that remains in someone else's server
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & ML Engineer
Back-end Developer & ML EngineerContributions:82 commits, 23 PRs, 4 pushes in 1 year 11 months
Contributions summary:Ben contributed significantly to the `pysyft` repository, focusing on implementing and adding features related to tensor operations and model training. They added new functions to the `FloatTensor` class such as `zero_()`, `tanh()`, `sqrt()` and `to_numpy()` improving the tensor's functionality. They also added a `MSELoss` function to the `.nn` package and made improvements to the underlying controller, by creating its own identity. Furthermore, the user implemented the infrastructure to support grid training.
data-sciencedeep-learningsecure-computationpytorchprivacy
capeprivacy/cape
Jul 2020 - Oct 2020
Cape Core
Contributions:2 releases, 9 reviews, 50 PRs in 2 months
cape
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