Ben Kroop Email & Phone Number

Pittsburgh, Pa, Us

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Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Us

"Most people spend more time and energy training neural networks to get around problems than in actually trying to solve them." -Henry Ford, 1914

San Francisco, California, Us

Teaching the car to drive itself.

Writer of emails and code. Technical responsibilities include powering actuators, commanding motor drivers, and localizing tasty objects using machine vision.

New York City, New York, Us

Provided technical and business assistance to the Techstars portfolio companies in the Boston 2014 class. Worked with Node.js and Python WebSockets on Raspberry Pi to build a finance API and a kiosk-style hardware monitoring system.

Built a vacation search engine using Python Flask that could take a plain-english description of a vacation and suggest destinations, ranked by similarity to traveler interests and airfare cost.

After founding Aerospace Robotics as a spin-off from an aerial survey technology venture and developing the business into a major online retailer of electronics prototyping supplies, Ben now manages product development and marketing.

Berkeley, Ca, Us

Worked alongside Jon McKay to design, build, and test the original prototype of the Tessel, a microcontroller that runs Javascript with built in Wi-Fi. We designed the original Freescale KL25 + TI CC3000 prototype of the Tessel in DipTrace.

Redmond, Washington, Us

Wrote specifications for a data pipeline that detects defective and fraudulent billing data efficiently, notifies data source owners of detected faults, and makes intelligent decisions for dynamic throttling of various software services to mitigate revenue loss as a result of either fraud or faulty advertisement display and transaction aggregation algorithms

Mountain View, California, Us

Setup and maintained a Jenkins Continuous Integration server to periodically, or after a code push, automatically compile a credit card processing server, run it, then run unit tests on it to make sure that the newest version of the server did not include any bugs that could disqualify it from moving to production.Updated the credit card processing server's source code to repair bugs detected by JUnit tests running on Jenkins.

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Managed product production cycle, including ordering components for production runs based on the product's BOM, sending the components, PCBs, and PCB files to the manufacturer, loading the firmware onto the board, and testing the functionality of the board. Troubleshooted boards that arrived defective from the factory by re-soldering parts and tuning the printed antenna by changing inductors.PCB layout editing and customer service.

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Electrical And Computer Engineering

Business, Electrical Engineering

Entrepreneurship / Cross-Registered Student

Visiting Student In Entrepreneurship, Course 6