Benjamin Arai
General Manager - Analytics And Experimentation - AI Platform
Bellevue, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolBenjamin Arai is a seasoned analytics and experimentation leader with 19 years of experience building large-scale data platforms and driving product decisions at Microsoft and LinkedIn. Currently General Manager for Analytics and Experimentation on Microsoft's AI Platform, he leads cross-functional teams that deliver A/B experimentation, product analytics, and robust ETL pipelines as a company-wide center of excellence. His academic roots (Ph.D. in Computer Science) and early research in peer-to-peer networks, distributed databases, and top-k retrieval underpin a career that blends rigorous algorithmic thinking with practical data science and product management. Benjamin has a track record of turning complex measurement problems into scalable systems—from attribution and query-share modeling at Bing to onboarding and relevance improvements at LinkedIn. He is equally comfortable designing efficient indexing and similarity-search techniques as he is mentoring PM and DS teams to apply experimentation to strategic decisions. Based in Bellevue, WA, he combines research-grade technical depth with enterprise-scale delivery and a penchant for building high-performing teams.
19 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D. Computer Science, Ph.D. Computer Science at University of California, Riverside
English
Github Skills (3)
wine6
freebsd5
linux5
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (1)
AndreRH/wine
Jul 2006 - Sep 2006
Hangover and WineCE can be found here
Contributions:38 commits in 2 months
winelinuxfreebsd
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