Ben Falk
Principal Cloud Engineer at Space Telescope Science Institute
Baltimore, Maryland, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBen Falk is a Principal Cloud Engineer with 19 years of experience building cloud-native, data-intensive systems and production ML pipelines, currently leading cloud architecture at the Space Telescope Science Institute. He blends a strong software engineering background in Python, C++, databases and TypeScript with domain expertise from a Ph.D. in Neuroscience and Cognitive Science, enabling him to bridge complex scientific data workflows and scalable infrastructure. At Johns Hopkins he built and maintained multi-terabyte neuroimaging databases and web APIs, and his open-source contributions include backend enhancements to the widely used Neuroglancer volumetric data viewer. Ben is comfortable moving between low-level decoder work and high-level cloud design, and he has a track record of mentoring teams and shipping reproducible, documented tools for scientific research.
19 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Neuroscience and Cognitive Science, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Neuroscience and Cognitive Science at University of Maryland
Github Skills (8)
backend10
back-end-development10
python10
typescript-types9
data-processing9
typescript9
typescripts9
webgl8
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
google/neuroglancer
Sep 2018 - Jul 2019
WebGL-based viewer for volumetric data
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:8 commits, 6 PRs, 17 comments in 10 months
Contributions summary:Ben focused on modifying backend components and data sources within the neuroglancer project. They added a blend mode to Python bindings, removed and re-added data source decoders (ndstore and npz), and added a backend chunk decoder in Python. They also updated the viewer.ts file, changing how default viewer options are handled.
webgl
falkben/beampattern_processing
Dec 2015 - May 2017
Contributions:1 release, 2 PRs, 34 pushes in 1 year 5 months
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