The Vision
Benjamin Bengfort, Ph.D.
Founder/CEO
Dr. Benjamin Bengfort is the co-founder and CEO of Rotational Labs, where he orchestrates the integration of innovative machine learning techniques with advanced distributed computing systems. A seasoned expert in systems engineering, programming, and data science, he has a proven record of developing AI-driven solutions that support globally distributed data architectures and address the complex challenges of multi-region organizations.
Under his leadership, Rotational has focused on not just the implementation but also the responsibility of participating in an AI driven economy; a believer in open source, Dr. Bengfort pays special attention to the ethics and outcomes of AI, ensuring humans are at the center of our solutions.
He is the co-author of Applied Text Analysis with Python (2018, O’Reilly) and Data Analytics with Hadoop (2016, O’Reilly). Dr. Bengfort earned his Ph.D. from the University of Maryland focusing on planetary scale distributed systems.
Blog Posts Written by Benjamin
A Distributed Systems Maze
The most exciting applications coming out these days are the ones that aim big — aspiring to reach a global audience of users across regions, languages, timezones, and data centers. Not only are they in the exhilarating position of owning …
Apr 6, 2021
Project Planning With Block Based Dependencies
Good software development achieves complexity by describing the interactions of simple components. Of course, this is harder than it sounds, and if Mark Twain had been a software developer he would have likely said: “if I had more …
Mar 24, 2021
Documenting a gRPC API with OpenAPI
gRPC makes the specification and implementation of networked APIs a snap. But what is the simplest way to document a gRPC API? There seem to be some hosted providers by Google, e.g. SmartDocs, but I have yet to find a gRPC-specific tool. …
Feb 12, 2021
Hello World
Right now only half the world is awake. For successful planetary-scale networking, it’s time for diurnal intelligently distributed systems.
Jan 21, 2021
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