Software Engineer @ The BlueTalon Policy Engine fully safeguards your Hadoop data, and provisions and enforces your data access policies and controls on even the most sensitive data. BlueTalon extends existing Hadoop data access capabilities and unlocks Hadoop’s full potential by enabling you to use Hadoop to store and process even the most sensitive data to drive key decisions without compromising compliance or security. The BlueTalon Policy Engine works across Hive, Impala, and coming shortly, MapReduce and HDFS. From March 2015 to Present (8 months) Redwood City, CASoftware Engineer @ • Wrote Hadoop codec for on-the-fly database table decompression • Fixed critical concurrency issue causing deadlock between producer and consumer threads on Linux named pipes • Reduced processing time 4 hours, by creating a suite of Bash scripts automating security hardening • Reduced backlog of high-availability defects by 75% • Added disk health reporting feature to General Parallel File System cluster, while maintaining compatibility with Hadoop Distributed File System • Awarded “IBM Blue Points” as formal recognition for a security compliance guide & accompanying testing methods • Selected for Engineering Response Team, resolving escalated customer issues From June 2013 to March 2015 (1 year 10 months) Lenexa, KSSoftware Research Assistant @ • Reduced render time by 99% by optimizing algorithm to facilitate 3D rendering of printed circuit boards • Integrated circuit-component thermal analysis into printed circuit board visualization software • Developed method to streamline extraction process of geometric data from ISO AP 203 STEP files From December 2011 to June 2013 (1 year 7 months) Iowa City, IowaSoftware Development Intern @ • Developed code for testing reliability of experimental methods for digital television signal transmission • Managed Linux (Ubuntu) server, including cron jobs and server software updates From June 2011 to August 2011 (3 months) Marion, Iowa

BS, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Math @ University of Iowa From 2008 to 2013 Glenbrook South High School From 2005 to 2008 Stanford UniversityUniversity of California, Berkeley Ben Weintraub is skilled in: C++, Software Development, Java, Algorithms, Linux, C, Hadoop, Research, Testing, Software Engineering, Matlab, C#, Data Analysis, Simulations, SQL, Science, Physics, Mathematics, Bash, Embedded Systems, Go, Python, Visual Studio, Windows, HTML, Biomedical Engineering, Databases, Emacs, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Word, PowerPoint