Benjamin Cohen
Founder & CEO at proton.ai
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBenjamin Cohen is the Founder & CEO of proton.ai and a fourth-generation distributor turned AI entrepreneur with nine years of experience building data-driven products from Cambridge, MA. He holds a bachelor's in Applied Mathematics from Harvard and blends rigorous quantitative training with hands-on startup leadership to commercialize AI solutions. Prior roles include research at Harvard Business School and data/marketing work at Danaher, giving him a rare mix of academic, enterprise, and growth-stage perspectives. Since founding proton.ai in 2018 he has focused on turning complex machine learning workflows into practical business outcomes. Notably, his family distribution roots inform a pragmatic approach to product-market fit and operations that many pure technologists lack.
10 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Applied Mathematics, Bachelor's degree Applied Mathematics at Harvard UniversityPhillips Exeter Academy
Github Skills (26)
data-science9
scheduler9
python9
machine-learning9
automation9
orchestration8
data-integration8
mlops8
etl8
airflow8
apache8
workflow-engine8
data-engineering8
elt7
dag7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
prmsolutions/appifier
Apr 2019 - Apr 2019
Node.js library/CLI which turns any website into Electron app.
Contributions:13 pushes in 1 day
cli-libraryjs-libraryelectronnode-jsjavascript
benjscohen/sound_meter
Nov 2025 - Nov 2025
Contributions:1 release, 18 pushes, 3 tags in 1 day
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