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Ben Thompson Location
Chapel Hill, NC, US
Ben Thompson Work
Data Engineer @ (February 2026 - Present)
Senior Staff Data Engineer, Analytics Platform @ (September 2023 - February 2026)
Staff Analytics Engineer @ (June 2021 - September 2023)
Staff Software Engineer — Data @ (July 2017 - June 2021)
Data Scientist, Rider Experience @ (May 2016 - July 2017)
Data Scientist, Marketing Engineering @ (April 2015 - May 2016)
PhD Candidate - Astrophysics @ (August 2010 - April 2015)
Data Science Fellow @ (January 2015 - March 2015)
Web Analytics Consultant @ Supreme Golf (September 2014 - September 2014)
Consulting Developer @ (August 2014 - September 2014)
Developer @ Sloan Digital Sky Survey (September 2010 - September 2014)
Ben Thompson Education
Texas Christian University
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Astrophysics (Astrophysics)
2010-2015
Ohio Wesleyan University
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Astrophysics (Astrophysics)
2006-2010
Ben Thompson Skills
Python
Data Analysis
Programming
D3.js
Statistics
SQL
MySQL
Astrophysics
Machine Learning
Astronomy
Physics
Algorithms
Research
Scientific Writing
University Teaching
Parallel Programming
Endorsements
Scientific Computing
LaTeX
Xbox 360
C++
C
Data Science
Matlab
Dinosaurs
Java
Pizza
Science
Analytics
Data Mining
Ben Thompson Summary
Ben Thompson, based in Chapel Hill, NC, US, is currently a Data Engineer at Cursor. Ben Thompson brings experience from previous roles at Faire, GitHub and Uber. Ben Thompson holds a 2010 - 2015 Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Astrophysics in Astrophysics @ Texas Christian University. With a robust skill set that includes Python, Data Analysis, Programming, D3.js, Statistics and more. Ben Thompson has 5 emails and 2 mobile phone numbers on RocketReach.
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