Benjamin Collins

Benjamin Collins

Software Engineering | Big Data Engineer

About Me

Welcome to my page! I'm an experienced Software Engineer with a specialization in Data Engineering, Machine Learning, and Backend Development.

Projects

CrowdSync

CrowdSync is a mobile app that allows users to easily discover valuable connections. We enable friction-free networking at events through an intuitive interface allowing you to quickly find and connect with the ‘right’ attendees.

Quordata

Machine learning tools to collect social data across the internet, generate sentiment analysis, and produce actionable insights.

Quordata-Website

Frontend web application for Quordata, interfacing with a MySQL database and an AWS cloud service backend to manage data.

CLogs

A logging system to integrate with a scalable distributed system using Google Pub/Sub to subscribe and submit logs to BigQuery, through a Google Cloud Dataflow for real-time analytics.

StockTools

Tools for stock trading and analysis. Collects stock data and uses machine learning algorithms plus backtesting to deliver strategies.

SpaceSim

Space simulator written in Unity. Created physics and collision detection system from scratch.

NLP-Disaster-Tweets

Natural Language Processing project. Uses tweets and machine learning to track natural disasters.

Spherical-Collision-Detection

An implementation of a spherical collision detection using a broad and narrow approach. The broad approach is an example from NVIDIA's Spatial Subdivision implementation.

Experience

CrowdSync

Chief Technology Engineer, June 2023 - March 2024

Quordata

Chief Technology Engineer, June 2020 - June 2023

The Boeing Company

Flight Software Engineer, September 2018 - Present

The Boeing Company

Full-Stack Developer, September 2017 - September 2018

University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign

Support Developer, September 2013 - May 2017

Skills

Languages & Frameworks

Python, C++, C#, C, Java, MATLAB, R, Haskell, SQL, HTML/CSS, Bash, Rust, JavaScript, Verilog, Ruby, Assembly (MIPS, x86)

Frameworks/Libraries

Kubernetes, Keras, TensorFlow, PyTorch, React, React Native, Scikit-Learn, Hadoop, SciPy

Other

AWS (KMS, Cognito, DynamoDB, Lambda), NLP, Kafka, GCP, Firebase, HuggingFace Transformers, BigQuery

Databases

MySQL, SQLite, MongoDB, DynamoDB