Ben Baltes Email & Phone Number

Oakland, California, US

Falmouth, Cornwall, GB

• Created system architecture for state-of-the-art X-ray diffraction machine now used at ELI Beamlines
• Build interfaces from hardware-level assembly code to server-side python interfaces
• Realtime streaming of low-level camera interfaces and photon sensors
• Created a remote access experiment system.
• Assembly, C, C++, Python

Redmond, Washington, US

• Managed massive data sets to form insights on improving core user experience and monetization on the Windows 10 platform
• Created architecture for quick extraction and analysis of over 450 terabytes of daily information
• Formed unique data pipeline and interface to monitor and analyze user behavior
• Ideated, informed and drove changes in Microsoft account policy based on customer usage data
• Consolidated, programmatically organized, and drove insights on hundreds of thousands of free form user responses
• Windows employee spotlight Feb 2015

Herndon, VA, US

• Infinitely scalable relational database contracted by the Department of Defense
• Core Java development on top of the rest service layer
• Developed a randomized and dynamically generated and self-validating testing infrastructure to ensure the robustness and scalability of the core system design.
• Produced upon the company standard unit testing infrastructure

Redmond, Washington, US

• Design and development of an end to end data-driven test framework to increase efficiency in automated test authoring
• Created language and compiler to enhance the production of automated test authoring by 1/10 of the time
• Enhanced test coverage on the Out of Box Experience of Windows 10

• Animated for the official music video for a recurring billboard hot 100 artist.
• Re-contracted to animate the full music video for the next single prior to release.
• Received over 733,000 views within the first week of release.

Tampa, FL, US

• 30+ hours a week in addition to school

• Drafted and created a web page marketing water gel-balls used for commercial agriculture.
• Installed a shopping cart system to track inventory and sales.