Benjamin Collins

Benjamin Collins

Software Engineer | Cloud & AI Infrastructure

About Me

Welcome to my page! I train and ship machine learning models, and build the programmable DPUs, virtual network datapaths, and distributed control planes that serve large-scale AI workloads.

Projects

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Experience

The Boeing Company

Flight Software Engineer

September 2018 - September 2024

The Boeing Company

Full-Stack Developer

September 2017 - September 2018

University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign

Support Developer

September 2013 - May 2017

Skills

Languages

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

Frameworks/Libraries

  • .NET
  • Service Fabric
  • Kubernetes
  • Docker
  • PyTorch
  • TensorFlow
  • Keras
  • Scikit-Learn
  • SciPy
  • HuggingFace Transformers
  • React/React Native
  • Hadoop

Cloud & Networking

  • Azure
  • AWS (KMS, Cognito, DynamoDB, Lambda)
  • GCP
  • software-defined networking
  • programmable DPUs/SmartNICs
  • SR-IOV
  • VPP
  • DASH
  • VFP
  • multicast
  • VXLAN/NVGRE
  • IPv4/IPv6
  • load balancing/NAT
  • ACLs/security rules
  • QoS
  • publish/subscribe

Tools & Technologies

  • Azure DevOps
  • Kusto/KQL
  • CI/CD
  • Kafka
  • Firebase
  • BigQuery
  • NLP
  • RAG/embeddings
  • agentic development workflows

Databases

  • MySQL
  • SQLite
  • MongoDB
  • DynamoDB