Benjamin Sowell
Software Engineer at Glean
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBenjamin Sowell is a software engineer and former founder with eight years of professional experience building distributed systems and cloud services in the San Francisco Bay Area. He progressed from research internships to engineering roles at AWS, rising to Principal Software Engineer before co-founding and serving as CTO of Aryn, and now contributes at Glean. His background combines deep academic training toward a PhD in Computer Science from Cornell with hands-on production experience shipping scalable, high-throughput services at one of the largest cloud providers. Benjamin thrives at the intersection of research and product, translating complex systems designs into operational software. Colleagues would describe him as an engineer who balances architectural rigor with pragmatic delivery and entrepreneurial instincts. He brings proven leadership across both startup and enterprise contexts, with a track record of driving technical strategy and execution.
9 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Computer Science, PhD, Computer Science at Cornell UniversityBA, Computer Science, BA, Computer Science at Carleton College
Github Skills (20)
opensearch10
information-retrieval10
semantic-search10
llm10
etl10
dataprep10
unstructured-data10
ai10
natural-language-processing10
aws-glue10
nlp10
ml9
machine-learning9
spark8
partitioning7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
aryn-ai/aryn-sdk
Mar 2025 - Feb 2026
Contributions:14 reviews, 35 PRs, 29 pushes in 11 months
bsowell/test-pypi-deploy
Sep 2023 - Sep 2023
Contributions:14 pushes, 2 branches, 6 tags in 7 days
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