Ben Latimer
Co-Founder at balanceHQ
Greater Columbia, Missouri Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBen Latimer is a data-driven software entrepreneur and Co-Founder with nine years of experience building ML-backed products and analytics systems. He blends deep academic training—a PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering and an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship studying neural networks—with practical industry delivery in marketing attribution, recommender systems, and conversion optimization. At Veterans United he translated theoretical frameworks into Python production models that drove ad spend efficiency and company-wide recommendations, and he continued scaling data science leadership at Mercy before founding balanceHQ. Ben is comfortable bridging research, engineering, and business stakeholders to ensure models are adopted and deliver measurable value. Based in Greater Columbia, Missouri, he pairs rigorous scientific thinking with hands-on engineering, and often brings neuroscience-inspired perspectives to commercial ML problems.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Electrical Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BS, Electrical Engineering at Missouri University of Science and TechnologyUniversity of Missouri
Github Skills (26)
simulation10
computational-neuroscience10
python10
simulation-framework10
agent-based-modeling10
neuroscience10
modeling10
meta-analysis8
machine-learning8
computational-biology7
electrophysiology6
optimization4
connectivity2
reflex2
time-series2
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
latimerb/BLA_SingleCells
Apr 2019 - Jul 2020
Contributions:55 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 3 months
latimerb/latimerb.github.io
Oct 2017 - Jan 2021
Contributions:12 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 3 months
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