Ben Awad

Co-Founder

San Francisco, California, United States9 yrs 10 mos experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Co-founder of an innovative gaming startup.
  • Developed AI chatbot used by millions.
  • Led a team to create impactful non-profit website.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech and Gaming developer with strong leadership in tech projects.

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Skills

Core Skills

Software DevelopmentWeb DevelopmentMachine LearningPython

Other Skills

React.jsJavaScriptPandasC++AgileGitGithubVimSQLWordPressBack-End Web DevelopmentNode.jsReact NativePostgreSQL

Experience

9 yrs 10 mos
Total Experience
3 yrs 6 mos
Average Tenure
9 yrs 3 mos
Current Experience

Voidpet

Co-Founder

Nov 2021Present · 4 yrs 5 mos

  • Building the next generation Pokemon game.
Software DevelopmentReact.jsJavaScriptPythonWeb Development

Bank of america

Global Technology Summer Analyst

Jun 2017Aug 2017 · 2 mos · Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex

  • ● Helped develop Erica, an AI financial chatbot in production to be used by 58 million people.
  • ● Boosted Erica's accuracy over 4% by automating the creation of training data.
  • ● Trained a machine learning model enabling Erica to identify the sentiment of users.
  • ● Created web pages with React.js to simplify the training/testing of Erica.
PythonMachine LearningReact.jsWeb Development

Youtube

YouTuber

Jan 2017Present · 9 yrs 3 mos

  • I make videos about programming, tech, and startups.
  • https://www.youtube.com/c/benawad97

Kershner trading group

Quantitative Analyst Intern

May 2016Aug 2016 · 3 mos · Austin, Texas Metropolitan Area

  • Developed a Python application for quants using Pandas library to analyze backtesting data.
  • Improved backtesting speed of one model by 700%.
  • Learned CloudQuant, a Python trading platform; taught other team members, and migrated C++ models.
PythonPandasC++

Texprotects

Team Lead/Developer

Jan 2016May 2016 · 4 mos · Richardson, Texas

  • Led team of 4 using Agile methodology to create a child abuse informational website.
  • Replaced the need for hundreds of static HTML reports by converting to JSON, which can be easily searched by county, year, and topic.
  • Scraped data using Python to create graphs with Highcharts JS.
  • Hosted on GitHub: benawad.github.io/tex-protects.
PythonAgileJavaScriptWeb Development

Education

The University of Texas at Dallas

Bachelor's degree — Computer Science

Jan 2015Jan 2018

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