Ben Margolin
Engineering Leadership at Google
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolBen Margolin is an experienced engineering leader with 12+ years building high-performing teams and shipping products across enterprise, consumer, and experimental Google projects. Currently leading a Google Cloud Applied AI team, he focuses on AI-first platforms that enable realtime enterprise decision-making across diverse data sources. His background spans hands-on engineering in Java, Go, TypeScript, and Android through senior roles at Google (including DeepMind/Gemini work), founding an Area 120 cross-platform product, and scaling engineering organizations at Yahoo and startups acquired by Alibaba. Ben pairs product-minded technical depth with people-first management—measured by retention and satisfaction—and a strong commitment to diversity and inclusion. Unusually, his career spans low-level systems (industrial device drivers and message routers) to modern AI UX, giving him a rare breadth from embedded C to large-scale ML-driven user experiences. Based in Cambridge, MA, he combines executive education (Executive MBA) with a long record of turning tight timelines and minimal resources into impactful launches.
12 years of coding experience
31 years of employment as a software developer
Executive MBA, Executive MBA at Quantic School of Business and TechnologyBSCS Modeling mechanical systems; enabling online communities; parallel algorithms, BSCS Modeling mechanical systems; enabling online communities; parallel algorithms at University of Michigan
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Github Skills (83)
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deep-learning10
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julialang10
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Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
BitTigerInst/Zeus
Feb 2016 - Apr 2016
Contributions:21 commits, 2 PRs, 28 pushes in 1 month
reactsocket-iochat-applicationchatchat-applications
cc13ny/Linkcnt
Dec 2016 - Oct 2018
Contributions:2 PRs, 49 pushes, 16 branches in 1 year 10 months
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