Ben Frantzdale
Software Engineering Manager, Deep Learning Inference - New Hardware Enablement at NVIDIA
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolBen Frantzdale is a software engineering manager and multidisciplinary engineer with 12+ years of experience building high-performance C++ libraries and production systems for 3D printing, computer vision, and deep learning inference on new hardware. Based in Cambridge, he blends systems-level software design with optomechanical and firmware collaboration, having led technical teams at Formlabs and transitioned to NVIDIA to enable ML inference on novel hardware. He is an inventor with 23 patents (18 active) and a penchant for architecting reusable, hard-to-misuse libraries that prioritize testability and performance. An active contributor to notable open-source projects like AcademySoftwareFoundation/openvdb, he has deep practical experience improving thread safety and modernizing concurrency to std::atomic. Ben is also a hands-on mentor who accelerates team capability by teaching rigorous design patterns and cross-disciplinary problem solving. He frequently learns and applies new domains rapidly—from color theory to endoscope design—turning niche expertise into product-ready solutions.
12 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at Harvey Mudd CollegeMaster of Science - MS, Mechanical Engineering (Computational Mechanics), Master of Science - MS, Mechanical Engineering (Computational Mechanics) at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Github Skills (11)
openvdb10
c-language10
threaded10
cprogramming-language10
thread10
hyper-threading10
multithreading10
mutex10
concurrency10
cplus9
cpp9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
AcademySoftwareFoundation/openvdb
Nov 2020 - Feb 2021
OpenVDB - Sparse volume data structure and tools
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:16 reviews, 5 commits, 5 PRs in 3 months
Contributions summary:Ben primarily contributed to the OpenVDB project by modifying and updating core C++ code. Their work focused on improving thread safety and performance, as demonstrated by the changes related to atomic operations and mutexes. The commits involve migrating from the TBB atomic library to the standard C++ <atomic> library. This included refactoring of several files and integration of standard C++ libraries. Furthermore, the user addressed issues with the double-checked locking mechanism and implemented fixes in several files.
vfxvoxelizervolume-renderingsparsec-plus-plus
BenFrantzDale/openvdb
Feb 2020 - May 2024
OpenVDB - Sparse volume data structure and tools
Contributions:22 pushes, 5 branches in 4 years 3 months
volume-renderingsparsevolumehierarchicalopenvdb
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