Ben Stolovitz
Principal Research Scientist at Salesforce
West Hartford, Connecticut, United States
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Top SchoolBen Stolovitz is a Principal Research Scientist with 14 years of experience building applied AI and accessible user experiences, currently leading Applied AI efforts at Salesforce after a series of impactful engineering roles at Microsoft. He has driven measurable product improvements—cutting self-host time for key AI features by 84x—and led accessibility engineering for large Windows AI teams, shipping features used by tens of thousands of users. Ben blends research-minded prototyping (OCR, clustering, Ollama) with production-grade systems across C#, C++, and full-stack tooling, and has a track record of accelerating developer inner loops for 1.5K+ engineers. Earlier work includes HIPAA-compliant healthcare tooling as CTO of a startup and creating novel accessibility software and sonification tools during academic research. He’s known for cultivating learning cultures (hosting a monthly “No Stupid Questions”), contributing to open source, and surfacing non-obvious accessibility wins like adding heading navigation for non-text content.
15 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree Computer Science, Bachelor's Degree Computer Science at Washington University in St. LouisHigh School, High School at The Weber School
Spanish, Hebrew, English
Stackoverflow
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twitter-bootstrap
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Github Skills (200)
cmd10
twitter-bootstrap10
xaml10
windows10
cmake10
home-assistant10
cpp10
recoiljs10
spotify10
editable10
fastify10
markdown10
linux10
desktop-application10
windows-app10
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
citelao/acac-theme
Aug 2016 - Jun 2026
The WUSTL ACAC theme
Contributions:1 PR, 8 pushes, 2 branches in 10 years
citelao/compressor-visualizer
Nov 2020 - Jan 2026
Contributions:9 pushes, 2 branches in 5 years 3 months
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