Ben Du
Senior Software Engineer at Google
Bellevue, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBen Du is a senior software engineer and applied ML practitioner with 11 years of industry experience, currently at Google after a six-year tenure driving growth-focused AI and experimentation at eBay. He holds a PhD in Statistics from Iowa State and a BS from USTC, bringing deep foundations in statistical inference, A/B testing, and traditional ML combined with production-grade deep learning and big data engineering. Ben has applied ML across CRM, paid acquisition channels, and partner networks, and has a proven track record of turning research into scalable marketing systems. An active open-source maintainer and contributor—maintaining 50+ Docker images and engaging with projects like JupyterLab, Poetry, PyTorch and Spark—he blends platform engineering with research rigor. Based in Bellevue, he keeps a decade-long technical blog and portable Python tooling that reveal a hands-on commitment to reproducible ML and developer ergonomics.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
PhD Statistics, PhD Statistics at Iowa State UniversityBS Statistics, BS Statistics at University of Science and Technology of China
Github Skills (200)
command-line-interface10
proxy10
interpreter10
vim10
disposable10
theia10
command-line-tool10
nvim10
mobile-application10
api10
neural-network10
nlp10
python-logging10
data-science10
jupyterlab-extension10
Programming languages (22)
Github contributions (5)
legendu-net/docker-nodejs
Jul 2017 - Jan 2026
Contributions:3 PRs, 19 pushes, 4 branches in 8 years 7 months
legendu-net/docker-jupyterhub-jdk
Jan 2018 - Jan 2026
Contributions:24 PRs, 60 pushes, 19 branches in 8 years 1 month
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