Ben Steer
Board Member And Treasurer at Linked Data Benchmark Council
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolBen Steer is a researcher-practitioner and founder with a decade of experience building and teaching large-scale graph and streaming systems from London. As CTO of Pometry and Board Member/Treasurer at the Linked Data Benchmark Council, he blends product leadership with governance and standards work in the data community. He completed advanced research at Queen Mary University of London focused on temporal graph analytics and streaming services, and continues as an Honorary Researcher in the Queen Mary Networking Group. Ben teaches complex big-data toolchains (Hadoop, Spark, Flink, Storm) and has a strong track record of turning research into usable code available on GitHub. He is known in the community for providing practical "graph processing accessories"—utilities and benchmarks that make graph systems easier to evaluate and adopt. His background spans academia, industry R&D, and startup execution, giving him a rare mix of theoretical depth and production experience.
10 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
PhD FT Electronic Engineering Computer Science, PhD FT Electronic Engineering Computer Science at Queen Mary University of London
English
Github Skills (39)
python10
temporal10
graph10
time-series10
graph-database10
analytics10
olap10
rust10
embedded-database10
database10
dedicated-server9
dotnet8
spark8
relational-databases6
jekyll6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
miratepuffin/Raphtory-Deployment
Apr 2018 - Aug 2020
Contributions:2 PRs, 138 pushes in 2 years 4 months
HoangQNgo/Raphtory
Dec 2019 - Jul 2021
Raphtory: A Distributed Temporal Graph Processing System
Contributions:146 commits in 1 year 7 months
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