Ben Wing
Senior Machine Learning Engineer at Calix
Austin, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolBen Wing is a Senior Machine Learning Engineer in Austin with 16 years of applied experience and a 20-year programming and architecture background focused on NLP, ML, and big data. He has driven recommendation and demand-forecasting systems at Amazon and Prime Video and now builds LLM agent platforms to deliver AI-driven insights for Calix B2B customers. His research roots include a PhD in computational linguistics and the creation of TextGrounder, a system that predicts document geolocation from text, and he has deep experience building tooling for parsing and flexible ML libraries. An avid polyglot in both human and programming languages, he pairs extensive open-source work with cross-disciplinary training in studio art, reflecting a practical eye for design in complex systems.
15 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computational Linguistics, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computational Linguistics at The University of Texas at Austin
Spanish, Portuguese, French, Arabic, German, Latin
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Github Skills (44)
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Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
benwing4/WingerBot
Jul 2014 - Feb 2016
Contributions:597 commits, 144 pushes in 1 year 6 months
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benwing2/WingerBot
Aug 2015 - Dec 2022
Contributions:4620 commits in 7 years 5 months
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