Ben Masschelein-rodgers
Software Engineer at Plaid
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolBen Masschelein-rodgers is a software engineer with 12 years of experience building backend systems, data infrastructure, and ML/ingestion pipelines, currently contributing at Plaid in San Francisco. He has held senior engineering roles at Chan Zuckerberg Initiative and Facebook, pairing production-grade data engineering with principled system design. His open-source work includes backend refactors for the widely used cellxgene project, improving maintainability and handling tricky data issues like float16 casting and null categorical labels. Trained in physics and computer science at Cambridge and UCL, he brings a quantitative mindset to complex data problems and a track record of simplifying legacy codebases for long-term reliability.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
BA, Natural Sciences (physics, mathematics, materials science), BA, Natural Sciences (physics, mathematics, materials science) at University of CambridgeUniversity College London
English, Dutch, German
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Github Skills (13)
backend10
back-end-development10
python10
data-manipulation9
pandas8
testing7
scipy7
java6
transcriptomics6
jsp6
sc5
seq5
rna-seq5
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
chanzuckerberg/cellxgene
Sep 2021 - Feb 2022
An interactive explorer for single-cell transcriptomics data
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:1 release, 10 reviews, 10 commits in 4 months
Contributions summary:The user, zh2311, primarily focused on backend code cleanup and refactoring within the cellxgene repository. Their contributions included removing authentication code, streamlining dependencies by upgrading versions, and eliminating dead code. They also addressed float16 support by ensuring the data matrix was cast to float32, and made adjustments to handle null values in categorical labels. The user's work was crucial to improving the codebase's maintainability and addressing specific data-related issues.
visualizationscrna-seqbioinformaticsscientificdataviz
blrnw3/rwcweather
Nov 2020 - Aug 2021
Contributions:11 commits, 9 pushes, 1 branch in 9 months
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