Ted Benson

Experience

Head of Machine Intelligence 2017 - 2020 (over 2 years)

Built out multiple engineering & product teams, helping Instabase grow from eight employees to over a billion dollars in valuation.

Exit

Cloudstitch

Founder, CEO 2014 - 2017 (about 3 years)

Founded web platform company based on doctoral research. Led through Y Combinator, seed funding, growth, and acquisition.

MIT CSAIL

Research Assistant 2008 - 2014 (almost 6 years)

Masters & PhD student. Research published in top outlets for natural language processing, machine learning, HCI, and web architecture.

Research Intern 2012 (2 months)

Summer research stints in natural language processing & machine learning while a PhD student at MIT.

BBN Technologies

R&D Scientist 2005 - 2008 (almost 3 years)

Knowledge graph and distributed processing platform design for DARPA projects.

Exit

Software Development Intern 2004 (2 months)

Designed and built load management system for an internal beta of what would become AWS EC2.

Steamship

Founder, Founder, CEO 2021 - Present (about 5 years)

Join us to put natural language understanding in the hands of every software developer.

Founder

Cloudstitch, Steamship

Employee

Google, BBN Technologies, Amazon, MIT CSAIL, Instabase

Education

Q&A

What's your favorite non-business book?

The Three Body Problem (and sequels). Anathem.

I design developer platforms. Founder @ Steamship. MIT PhD, YC Alum. Educator and coach at heart.