Summary
Benjamin Wang is a Senior Associate Data Engineer with a decade of experience building and productionizing scalable data pipelines and analytics at Capital One, where he manages daily flows of 100M+ rows and launched an email marketing pipeline reaching 4M under-targeted customers. He combines hands-on engineering with research curiosity—piloting novel ingestion methods, prototyping graph-database solutions that consolidated billions of rows for knowledge-graph driven workflows, and quantifying query performance improvements of up to 20x. Pursuing a MS in Computer Science (Data Science) at UIUC, his coursework spans advanced Bayesian modeling, statistical learning, and cloud applications, complementing practical skills in AWS, Stardog, and data visualization. Known for making code modular and maintainable, he also brings background in ML-focused EDA and visualization, plus leadership experience in ACM, bridging research, tooling, and production impact.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at The University of Texas at Dallas
High School Diploma, Computer Science, GPA: 3.96, High School Diploma, Computer Science, GPA: 3.96 at Texas Academy of Mathematics and Science
Master's degree, Computer Science, 3.8, Master's degree, Computer Science, 3.8 at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign