Summary
Ben Shulman is a Staff Software Engineer with 13 years of experience building data and infrastructure systems, currently focused on electrification and energy at Electric Hydrogen. He has deep expertise in geospatial and navigation systems from senior engineering and technical lead roles at Mapbox and Yelp, where he shipped high-throughput geocoding and traffic/telemetry services. Ben blends machine learning, remote-sensing data pipelines, and scalable backend engineering—work informed by prior roles in conservation tech and academic machine-learning research at Cornell. Based in Santa Fe, he pairs rigorous production engineering with an unusual background as a field naturalist, having led expeditions in polar and coastal environments, which fuels a practical, systems-level perspective on real-world data problems.
13 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Engineering (MEng) Computer Science, Master of Engineering (MEng) Computer Science at Cornell University