Ben Newsom
Principal Software Engineer at Blue Talon Productions, LLC
Crofton, Maryland, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBen Newsom is a Principal Software Engineer with 13 years in senior engineering roles and a multi-decade history leading product and software teams across government, healthcare, and advertising domains. He currently applies machine learning and deep learning to large-scale, multimodal (image, video, audio, text) data problems for government intelligence and healthcare clients, while also running his consultancy, Blue Talon Productions. Ben blends hands-on architecture and engineering excellence with people leadership, repeatedly building high-performing teams to tackle complex, production-grade systems. His background includes principal and architect roles at Next Century, Inovalon, and AOL, and earlier entrepreneurial and academic leadership that informs a pragmatic, systems-oriented approach. Based in Crofton, Maryland, he pairs an MS in Computer Science and an MBA focused on new venture creation with a proven ability to bridge research, product, and operational delivery. An understated strength is his long-running pattern of founding and advising ventures, showing both startup grit and enterprise-scale delivery.
13 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
The University of Maryland, College ParkB.S., Mathematics, B.S., Mathematics at Washington and Lee UniversityM.S., Computer Science, M.S., Computer Science at William & Mary
klingon, southern, y'all
Github Skills (6)
widgets3
flutter2
machine-learning1
python1
deep-learning1
artifacts1
Github contributions (5)
NextCenturyCorporation/Centurion-Jmeter
Mar 2014 - Jun 2014
Contributions:37 commits in 3 months
NextCenturyCorporation/EVEREST-jmeter
Jun 2013 - Apr 2014
Contributions:5 commits in 9 months
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