Ben Hillmann
Senior Data Scientist
Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBen Hillmann is a Senior Data Scientist in Saint Paul with 12 years of experience translating scientific rigor into production-ready data products and automation at companies from Shipt to C.H. Robinson. He combines a PhD in Computational Biology and an MS in Computer Science to tackle messy, real-world problems—bridging research, teaching, and engineering roles including a stint as a non-tenure-track assistant professor. Known for making Jupyter-driven experiments run wild (and reliably reproducible), he excels at deploying ML solutions that streamline operations and inform business decisions. Comfortable across the stack, Ben brings academic depth and hands-on software craftsmanship to scale data science from prototype to production.
12 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computational Biology, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computational Biology at University of MinnesotaBachelor of Arts - BA, Mathematics and Computer Science, Bachelor of Arts - BA, Mathematics and Computer Science at Macalester College
Github Skills (49)
shotgun10
microbiome10
sequencing10
shell10
illumina10
zsh10
metagenomics10
scikit9
bioinformatics9
computational-biology9
mer8
package-development7
ninja7
conda7
data-structures6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
bhillmann/dotfiles
Jun 2017 - Dec 2025
@holman does dotfiles
Contributions:2 PRs, 82 pushes, 5 branches in 8 years 7 months
dotfilesholmanzsh
knights-lab/NINJA-utils
May 2016 - Aug 2022
Reusable classes and configurations for easy Python package development.
Contributions:1 release, 1 PR, 90 pushes in 6 years 3 months
package-developmentpython
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