Ben Sorek
Engineering Senior Director - Vuforia Studio at Vuforia, a PTC Technology- Claim this Profile
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Isaac Hazan
Ben and myself worked together for the last decade. First at Sandvine, Ben was my direct report at that time. He was in charge of Network control systems that manage the subscriber traffic at Tier-1 customers all over the world. Then at Qualcomm and PTC, Ben was my manager on the Vuforia Augmented reality platform. Ben has this rare ability to understand thoroughly the customer requirements and solve them in the most professional way. In particular Ben will always tend to design a solution that covers not only the high level but also its details and corner cases while still keeping in mind future product evolution and roadmap. Designing a system with Ben is a real pleasure and definitely an enriching experience. One of Ben's key strength is the ability to find the tools or Open-Source libraries that will solve the exact problem that you have and by that save you a ton of work. Ben will also try to provide a solution that does not compromise on aesthetic and cleanliness of the code. While Ben is very strong technically, it is a pleasure to have him as your manager. This is due to his great sense of humanity and his willingness to do the thing that will make you happy. I am looking forward to the days we will work together again and build great software systems.
Diane Schaefer
Ben is a skilled people manager and at the same time has a unique grasp of complex technologies. This has enabled him to successfully manage sensitive, strategic projects under extremely challenging conditions. It is a pleasure to work with Ben.
Isaac Hazan
Ben and myself worked together for the last decade. First at Sandvine, Ben was my direct report at that time. He was in charge of Network control systems that manage the subscriber traffic at Tier-1 customers all over the world. Then at Qualcomm and PTC, Ben was my manager on the Vuforia Augmented reality platform. Ben has this rare ability to understand thoroughly the customer requirements and solve them in the most professional way. In particular Ben will always tend to design a solution that covers not only the high level but also its details and corner cases while still keeping in mind future product evolution and roadmap. Designing a system with Ben is a real pleasure and definitely an enriching experience. One of Ben's key strength is the ability to find the tools or Open-Source libraries that will solve the exact problem that you have and by that save you a ton of work. Ben will also try to provide a solution that does not compromise on aesthetic and cleanliness of the code. While Ben is very strong technically, it is a pleasure to have him as your manager. This is due to his great sense of humanity and his willingness to do the thing that will make you happy. I am looking forward to the days we will work together again and build great software systems.
Diane Schaefer
Ben is a skilled people manager and at the same time has a unique grasp of complex technologies. This has enabled him to successfully manage sensitive, strategic projects under extremely challenging conditions. It is a pleasure to work with Ben.
Isaac Hazan
Ben and myself worked together for the last decade. First at Sandvine, Ben was my direct report at that time. He was in charge of Network control systems that manage the subscriber traffic at Tier-1 customers all over the world. Then at Qualcomm and PTC, Ben was my manager on the Vuforia Augmented reality platform. Ben has this rare ability to understand thoroughly the customer requirements and solve them in the most professional way. In particular Ben will always tend to design a solution that covers not only the high level but also its details and corner cases while still keeping in mind future product evolution and roadmap. Designing a system with Ben is a real pleasure and definitely an enriching experience. One of Ben's key strength is the ability to find the tools or Open-Source libraries that will solve the exact problem that you have and by that save you a ton of work. Ben will also try to provide a solution that does not compromise on aesthetic and cleanliness of the code. While Ben is very strong technically, it is a pleasure to have him as your manager. This is due to his great sense of humanity and his willingness to do the thing that will make you happy. I am looking forward to the days we will work together again and build great software systems.
Diane Schaefer
Ben is a skilled people manager and at the same time has a unique grasp of complex technologies. This has enabled him to successfully manage sensitive, strategic projects under extremely challenging conditions. It is a pleasure to work with Ben.
Isaac Hazan
Ben and myself worked together for the last decade. First at Sandvine, Ben was my direct report at that time. He was in charge of Network control systems that manage the subscriber traffic at Tier-1 customers all over the world. Then at Qualcomm and PTC, Ben was my manager on the Vuforia Augmented reality platform. Ben has this rare ability to understand thoroughly the customer requirements and solve them in the most professional way. In particular Ben will always tend to design a solution that covers not only the high level but also its details and corner cases while still keeping in mind future product evolution and roadmap. Designing a system with Ben is a real pleasure and definitely an enriching experience. One of Ben's key strength is the ability to find the tools or Open-Source libraries that will solve the exact problem that you have and by that save you a ton of work. Ben will also try to provide a solution that does not compromise on aesthetic and cleanliness of the code. While Ben is very strong technically, it is a pleasure to have him as your manager. This is due to his great sense of humanity and his willingness to do the thing that will make you happy. I am looking forward to the days we will work together again and build great software systems.
Diane Schaefer
Ben is a skilled people manager and at the same time has a unique grasp of complex technologies. This has enabled him to successfully manage sensitive, strategic projects under extremely challenging conditions. It is a pleasure to work with Ben.
Credentials
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GraphQL Essential Training
LinkedInMar, 2023- Nov, 2024
Experience
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Vuforia, a PTC Technology
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United States
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Software Development
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1 - 100 Employee
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Engineering Senior Director - Vuforia Studio
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Apr 2022 - Present
Leading over 20 engineers to design, develop and maintain Vuforia Studio's Augmented Reality Editor. The teams are responsible for all aspects of the development process: full stack and mobile development, DevOps and release engineering.
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Engineering Director - Vuforia Studio
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Sep 2020 - Present
Established 4 globally distributed software engineering teams, responsible for the frontend, backend, mobile and eyewear apps for the Studio Augmented Reality IDE.Tech Stack: AngularJS, NodeJS, Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform
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Engineering Director - Vuforia Identity & Analytics
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Nov 2015 - Sep 2020
Managed 2 teams responsible for the implementation of Vuforia's Identity Management Services and Analytics Platform.Tech Stack: Azure B2C, Event Bus, Service Bus, Blob Storage, React, NodeJS
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Qualcomm
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United States
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Telecommunications
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700 & Above Employee
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Team Lead/Senior Staff Engineer
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Sep 2012 - Nov 2015
Lead team of developers responsible for Vuforia's User Management, Analytics and Asset Management Services. Infrastructure: Services were deployed on AWS leveraging S3, RDS/MySQL, EC2, Redshift, Kinesis. Tech Stack: Java, Spring, Hibernate, Javascript/JQuery Lead team of developers responsible for Vuforia's User Management, Analytics and Asset Management Services. Infrastructure: Services were deployed on AWS leveraging S3, RDS/MySQL, EC2, Redshift, Kinesis. Tech Stack: Java, Spring, Hibernate, Javascript/JQuery
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Sandvine
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Canada
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Telecommunications
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700 & Above Employee
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Project Manager
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Apr 2010 - Sep 2012
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Team Leader
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Jul 2008 - Apr 2010
Lead a team of java developers
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BMC Software
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United States
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IT Services and IT Consulting
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700 & Above Employee
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Senior Java/J2EE Developer
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Dec 2005 - Jul 2008
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Proficiency
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Software Development
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1 - 100 Employee
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Software Developer
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Mar 2001 - Dec 2005
Project Leader / Senior J2EE Developer Project Leader / Senior J2EE Developer
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Software Developer
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Aug 1999 - Mar 2001
JAVA Developer JAVA Developer
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Software Developer
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1999 - 1999
Implemented internal tools in VBScript Implemented internal tools in VBScript
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Education
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McGill University
B.Sc., Computer Science, Biochemistry -
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