Benjamin Whitesell
Lead Machine Learning Engineer at Disney Streaming
Los Angeles, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBenjamin Whitesell is a Lead Machine Learning Engineer with nine years of experience building production ML systems for streaming media at Disney Streaming and Hulu. He combines hands-on expertise in Python, Spark, Airflow, and PyTorch with strong ETL, database, and backend skills (Django/DRF, Celery) to take models from prototyping to scalable deployment. His background in financial engineering and applied mathematics informs a rigorous approach to modeling, hypothesis testing, and experiment design across recommendation and personalization domains. Benjamin has progressed from data science roles into technical leadership and still contributes open-source work (see SpyNE) that reveals a practical focus on reproducible analysis and tooling. Based in Los Angeles, he pairs product-facing ML delivery with an engineer’s attention to observability, data pipelines, and retrainable model lifecycles.
9 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Financial Engineering, Master of Science - MS Financial Engineering at Claremont Graduate UniversityBachelor of Science - BS Applied Mathematics, Bachelor of Science - BS Applied Mathematics at Loyola Marymount University
Github Skills (18)
bokeh10
python10
machine-learning10
deep-learning10
estimate10
fastest10
data-visualization10
streamlit10
developer-tools10
data-analysis10
data-science9
pandas9
serve9
famework8
security6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
bwhitesell/SpyNE
Jun 2019 - Jul 2019
A Minimalist Deep Learning Famework
Contributions:71 commits, 68 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
pytorchfameworkdeep-learningminimalistmachine-learning
bwhitesell/Chaperone
Mar 2019 - Aug 2019
đźš“ An analytics application to estimate and serve safety information.
Contributions:115 commits, 2 PRs, 69 pushes in 5 months
analyticssecurityserveestimatesafety
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