Ben Gimpert
Technical Advisor & Investor at Salone Space
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBen Gimpert is a technical advisor, investor, and portfolio manager with 21 years of experience building and applying machine learning–driven systematic equity strategies. He blends hands-on engineering (including front-end contributions to the influential Vowpal Wabbit project) with senior roles at BlackRock and multiple founder/CTO stints, giving him a rare mix of research, product and executional depth. Based in San Francisco, he advises and invests across AI, AI infrastructure, real estate and hospitality, and currently holds advisory and investor roles at several startups while serving as a consulting CFO. Trained in computer science and finance (Northwestern and London Business School), he’s equally comfortable shipping code, lecturing, and steering capital toward practical ML and real-world businesses.
21 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Finance, Master's degree Finance at London Business SchoolBachelor of Engineering - BE Computer Science, Bachelor of Engineering - BE Computer Science at Northwestern University
Github Skills (9)
html10
javascript10
front-end-development9
css8
machine-learning7
active-learning6
elearning6
cplus5
cpp5
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
VowpalWabbit/vowpal_wabbit
Jul 2012 - Apr 2014
Vowpal Wabbit is a machine learning system which pushes the frontier of machine learning with techniques such as online, hashing, allreduce, reductions, learning2search, active, and interactive learning.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:10 commits, 1 comment in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Ben primarily contributed to the front-end development of a data validation tool, likely for training data used with Vowpal Wabbit. Their commits show the implementation of a JavaScript-based UI validator, including the creation of an HTML file, with added features for improved parsing and error handling. Further commits included bug fixes, and expanded format support for the training examples.
machine-learningvowpal-wabbitc-plus-plusonline-learningcontextual-bandits
someben/pyfin
Nov 2015 - Jan 2024
Basic options pricing in Python
Contributions:2 PRs, 9 pushes, 1 branch in 8 years 2 months
python
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