# Ben Markines

> Engineer at Split

Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/benmarkines

I am a principal engineer working on the data pipeline and applications at Split Software.  We collect, manage, and analyze data from some of the world's most popular applications.  The data drives applications such as monitoring and statistical analysis.  These applications allow software developers to gain insights and make data-driven decisions to create incredible experiences.  I enjoy taking on abstract projects, forming the requirements, and building consensus.  My background includes data mining, machine learning, and similarity networks.

## Work Experience
### Engineer @ Split
Jan 2021 – Present | Redwood City, California, United States

### Principal Software Engineer @ Medallia
Jan 2019 – Jan 2021

### Senior Staff Engineer @ Medallia
Jan 2018 – Jan 2019
Technical lead of the Medallia Conversations product.

### Senior Data Architect @ Chatgrid
Jan 2016 – Jan 2017
First technical hire.  Was involved in the initial implementation and deployments of the product.

### Software Architect, Office of the CTO @ MobileIron
Jan 2012 – Jan 2016 | 415 East Middlefield Rd, Mountain View, CA
Learn, design, and deploy.

### Chief Scientist @ Syfto
Jan 2011 – Jan 2012 | 536 Bryant St Palo Alto, CA 94301
I designed and implemented the data extraction engine for various data elements (deals and products).  Furthermore, I created the analytics engine to classify and induce similarity networks of data elements.  Implemented multiple recommendation engines ranging from matching (age, gender) to statistical models (Mutual Information, Naive Bayes, joint and conditional probabilities) to vector space methods (TF-IDF, cosine similarity).

### Chief Technology Officer @ ListenLogic - Real-time Business Intelligence
Jan 2010 – Jan 2011
Designed and implemented the analytics engine for sentiment, demographic, and topic extraction.  Scaled the system to process billions of snippets (tweets, blogs, and Facebook posts) a month.

### Research Engineer @ ListenLogic - Real-time Business Intelligence
Jan 2010 – Jan 2010

### Software Engineer @ IBM
Jan 2001 – Jan 2010
NFS engineer

### Ph.D. Candidate @ Indiana University
Jan 2003 – Jan 2009

### Research Scientist @ ISI Foundation
Jan 2007 – Jan 2008


## Education
### PhD in Computer Science
Indiana University Bloomington

### MS in Computer Science
Northern Illinois University

### BS in Computer Science
Northern Illinois University

### GE


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/markines
- Portfolio: http://www.cs.indiana.edu/~bmarkine/
- Portfolio: http://givealink.org/

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Last updated: 2026-04-10