Ben Galin's website (bens.ws)

Experience

I am the founder and executive director of Arrow15, a fiscally sponsored project of Social Good Fund, whose mission is to prepare community college students for the transition from computation-based to proof-based mathematics.

I have been at Google since 2008, first in the Localization department in various roles, from 2012 with the Google News team as a product specialist, from 2015 at Google Fiber as a web developer, and from 2017 as a software engineer, most recently with the Google Earth Engine team. Before Google, from 2006 until 2008, I worked at Propel Software, mostly as a QA engineer intern, but also briefly as a product manager.

Since 2024, I am the Public Communications Officer of the MAA Golden Section.

More info can be found on my LinkedIn profile.

Education

In 2024, I graduated with a Master of Science degree in Mathematics from Emporia State University. In 2007, I graduated from Stanford, where I received a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics with Honors. My thesis and much of my coursework focused on modern algebra. Prior to Stanford, I had attended Foothill College, where I had later established the Galin Family Math Scholarship.

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