Samuel Benz
Principal Data Analytics And AI Engineer At Swisscom
Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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Top SchoolSamuel Benz is a Principal Data Analytics and AI Engineer at Swisscom with 16 years of experience building real-time, production-grade analytics and streaming systems. He has led teams and technical strategy as CTO at spoud.io, where he helped enterprises like SBB and Migros adopt real-time decisioning, and previously ran real-time DNS analytics and anomaly detection for Verisign’s .COM infrastructure. Samuel combines a strong academic foundation—a PhD focused on distributed algorithms and state machine replication—with hands-on expertise in embedded systems and communication protocols, making him comfortable across both low-level systems and cloud-scale data platforms. Known for turning theoretical research into operational solutions, he specializes in graph analytics, streaming architectures, and DDoS-resilient real-time processing.
16 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
MSc, MSc at University of LuganoDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD at USI Università della Svizzera italianaDipl. El. Ing. FH, Dipl. El. Ing. FH at University of Applied Sciences Zurich
German, English
Github Skills (14)
throughput10
hash-functions10
atomic10
ospf10
multicast10
infiniband8
identity5
java5
keystone5
openstack4j5
client-library4
openstack4
openstack-sdk4
sdk4
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (4)
sambenz/URingPaxos
May 2013 - Apr 2021
URingPaxos : A high throughput atomic multicast protocol
Contributions:243 commits, 8 PRs, 37 pushes in 8 years
infinibandospfatomic-multicastc-plus-plushash-functions
sambenz/DNSdroid
Mar 2010 - Jun 2015
Contributions:57 commits, 1 push, 1 tag in 5 years 4 months
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