Ben Zheng
Engineering Director at Ekohe
Greater Vancouver Metropolitan Area Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolBen Zheng is an engineering director with 15+ years of experience building and scaling distributed software teams across North America and Asia, specializing in web, SaaS, and AI-driven products. He combines hands-on expertise in Ruby on Rails, Python, machine learning, and modern cloud architectures with a proven track record of turning ambiguous product visions into executable technical roadmaps. Recently he led the launch of an AI-powered insurance solution that uses computer vision and multimodal LLMs to identify damage and generate defensible pricing estimates, materially speeding up claims processing. Ben is skilled at balancing delivery velocity with long-term architectural health while mentoring engineering managers and growing cross-timezone teams. A founder-turned-director, he brings entrepreneurial grit and deep domain experience from building SaaS products and large-scale enterprise systems, including long-running production systems he helped architect. Based in Greater Vancouver, he’s particularly passionate about applying practical AI to real-world business problems and fostering cultures of ownership and continuous improvement.
9 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Engineering, Data Mining in Marine System, Doctor of Engineering, Data Mining in Marine System at Shanghai Maritime UniversityWeb Development Bootcamp, Web Development Bootcamp at Lighthouse Labs
English, Chinese, JapaneseProgramming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
ekohe/wulin_master
Oct 2016 - Dec 2019
Wulin Master fight for enterprise problem
Contributions:1024 commits, 1 push, 4 branches in 3 years 2 months
fightmasterproblementerprise
ekohe-ben/microscope
Mar 2017 - May 2017
Contributions:2 PRs, 61 pushes, 3 branches in 1 month
discovermeteor
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