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Ben Vierck#

About#

Ben Vierck

An accomplished technology leader and entrepreneur specializing in deep learning and software development. Founder of Positronic AI and co-founder of Devfarm Software, with a history of leadership at Fortune 100 companies.

Bio#

Benjamin Vierck is a technology leader and entrepreneur with a strong history of building successful companies and driving innovation. He is the founder of Positronic AI, a deep learning software and services company that developed the LIT.AI platform, enabling clients to independently build deep learning models. Previously, Mr. Vierck co-founded Devfarm Software, where he served as CTO and Principal Architect, creating the award-winning PowerWF and PowerSE PowerShell tools.

His engineering expertise is underscored by his roles at Fortune 100 companies. At Fujitsu's North America software division, he served as Vice President of Engineering [1]. At Dell Software (formerly Quest Software), he was a Software Development Manager [2]. Earlier in his career, at Microsoft, Mr. Vierck was a Software Engineer on the Windows team [3]. Over his career, he has contributed to the development of four major commercial software platforms. His commitment to advancing the field of AI is shown by his co-authorship of four patents [4] in deep learning.

Software#

  • Positronic LIT.AI: A platform for building deep learning models.
  • Fujitsu Capture Server (PaperStream Server): A web-based document processing platform that enables organizations to capture, process, and introduce business-critical content into their systems. It offers features like document separation, classification, extraction, and data release, automating many of the manual steps in document processing.
  • Devfarm PowerWF, PowerSE, PowerVI: PowerShell script authoring and management tools.
  • Dell Benchmark Factory, Foglight Transaction Recorder: Database and web server load testing tools.
  • Microsoft Windows: Operating system.

Patents#

US PROVISIONAL PATENT 63/708,059
COMPUTING TECHNOLOGIES FOR REAL-TIME HYPERPARAMETER TUNING OF MACHINE LEARNING TRAINING PROCESSES VIA LANGUAGE MODELS

US-20230177325-A1 COMPUTING TECHNOLOGIES FOR PRESERVING SIGNALS FOR ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORKS WHEN DOWNSAMPLING

US-20230316072-A1 ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK FOR SPARSE DATA PROCESSING

US-20240112023-A1 COMPUTING TECHNOLOGIES FOR PRESERVING SIGNALS IN DATA INPUTS WITH MODERATE TO HIGH LEVELS OF VARIANCES IN DATA SEQUENCE LENGTHS FOR ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK MODEL TRAINING

Talks#

Software Engineering Nankai University Guest Lecture

This personal perspective on the history of Software Engineering follows the state of Software Engineering from its birth in 1968 through the present. The content of this talk was heavily influenced by Paulo Perrota's talk at the 2012 Ruby Conference.

Publications and Articles#

  • VMware vSphere PowerCLI Reference: Automating vSphere Administration by Luc Dekens (First Edition, Chapter 22)
  • Essential Blogging published by O'Reilly (Acknowledgement)
  • Artificial Intelligence for Humans by Jeff Heaton (Acknowledgement)
  • Microsoft Scripting Blog Articles:
    • "PSImaging Part 1: Test-Image" - March 19, 2015
    • "PowerTip: Read .exe Magic Number with PowerShell" - March 19, 2015
    • "PSImaging Part 2: Export-Text from Images" - March 20, 2015
    • "PSImaging Part 3: Group-ImageFile" - March 21, 2015

Conferences and Events#

  • Gartner Symposium IT Forum 2019 (Attendee)
  • FIRST Robotics Competition: Deep Space, 2019 (Judge & Speaker)
  • StartupGrind Global 2018 Top 50 Startup (Top 20 Finalist)
  • StampedeCon 2017 (Speaker)
  • AIIM Conference 2014 (Speaker)
    • Title: "Ensure Your SharePoint Implementation is a Recipe for Success"
    • Date: Wednesday, April 2nd (2:00-2:30pm)
  • Microsoft TechEd 2014 (Exhibitor)
  • Sharepoint Conference 2014 (Exhibitor)
  • Microsoft System Center Alliance ISV Partner 2013 (Exhibitor)
  • Microsoft Management Summit 2011 (Exhibitor)
  • Microsoft Management Summit 2010 (Exhibitor)
  • Microsoft TechEd 2010 (Exhibitor)
  • VMWorld 2009 (Exhibitor, Speaker)
  • Interactive St Louis 2009 (Speaker)

Footnotes#

[1]: At Fujitsu, Mr. Vierck was an executive of KnowledgeLake, at the time, a wholly owned subsidiary of Fujitsu. He brought significant engineering credibility to the role. He spearheaded a major quality initiative to improve the products, strategically discontinued underperforming product lines while increasing investment in those with higher potential, and charted a course to migrate the company's on-premise platform to the cloud. Mr. Vierck's attempts to secure investment in AI and machine learning at Fujitsu, though ultimately unsuccessful, demonstrate his forward-thinking approach to technology. He reported directly to the CEO and was a member of the executive team.
[2]: During his tenure at Dell Software (formerly Quest Software), Mr. Vierck held the role of Software Development Manager. His key contribution was architecting Benchmark Factory for Web Servers, a web load testing tool notable for its industry-first browser recording and playback capabilities, which led to the growth of a dedicated team of 12. He also managed the development of Quest Management Packs to enable System Center management of Unix hosts. Additionally, Mr. Vierck held a unique position as the sole technical member of the executive mergers & acquisitions team, where he contributed valuable technical insights and strategies during critical acquisition processes.
[3]: Hired in 1996 onto the Windows Build team, Mr. Vierck's strong work ethic and eagerness to tackle complex problems, such as kernel bug triage, provided opportunities to participate in high-profile projects like Arbiter Weekend, DLL Hell, and Hydra. As a member of the Windows Build Team, he gained invaluable experience learning from some of the world's leading software engineers which significantly shaped his approach to software engineering.