Benjamin Bascom
Machine Learning Engineer at Etsy
San Francisco Bay Area United States
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Top SchoolBenjamin Bascom is a Machine Learning Engineer in the San Francisco Bay Area with 13 years of experience blending linguistics, software engineering, and data science to improve search and language-driven products. At Etsy he leads international search and previously owned linguistic tools like spell correction, autosuggest, and machine translation, translating language expertise into production-quality ML systems. His background at A9 and Amazon Lab126 includes building annotation tooling and automation that power query understanding and first-party app infrastructure at scale. Trained as a linguist (UC Berkeley) and later in computer science (UPenn MCIT), he brings a rare combination of theoretical language insight and practical engineering rigor. Colleagues rely on him to bridge annotation, modeling, and infra—turning messy natural language data into reliable search experiences. Notably, his career shows a steady progression from manual annotation roles to leading ML-driven search features, reflecting both domain depth and product-focused execution.
13 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
B.A., Linguistics, B.A., Linguistics at University of California, BerkeleyMCIT, Computer Science, MCIT, Computer Science at University of Pennsylvania
Github Skills (6)
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Github contributions (5)
asyapluggedin/ascii-tarot
May 2022 - May 2022
Contributions:13 commits, 11 pushes, 1 branch in 27 days
MOCSABNIMAJNEB/savefrys.com
May 2021 - Jun 2021
Contributions:43 pushes, 2 branches in 2 days
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