Benjamin Yackley
Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft
Greater Seattle Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBenjamin Yackley is a Senior Software Engineer with nine years of industry experience who blends academic research chops—a PhD in Computer Science—with pragmatic product-focused front-end engineering at companies like Microsoft, Instructure, and Amazon. He builds delightful, useful UIs and production data systems, having led outbound-flow prediction and labor-attrition modeling at Amazon and shipped front-end features at Instructure before joining Microsoft. Comfortable across the stack, he applies probabilistic modeling and algorithmic insight from his graduate work on Gaussian process proxies to real-world prediction and user-facing problems. An educator at heart, he has taught introductory CS and created research tools that mine biological databases and visualize results with JavaScript. Based in the Greater Seattle area, he combines a continual curiosity for new domains with a bias for shipping reliable, human-centered software. Unusually, he pairs deep quantitative methods with a sustained interest in making interfaces that are both fun to use and trustworthy sources of truth.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D, Computer Science, Ph.D, Computer Science at The University of New MexicoBachelor of Arts (BA), Cognitive Science, Bachelor of Arts (BA), Cognitive Science at UC Berkeley
Github Skills (7)
dataflow-programming7
javascript6
flow-based-programming6
static-typing5
hat5
python4
flit3
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
byackley/pixelfonts
Feb 2018 - Sep 2019
Contributions:21 commits, 114 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 6 months
byackley/critter
Jul 2017 - Jan 2018
Contributions:1 PR, 35 pushes, 1 branch in 6 months
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