Ben Schwartz has been a member of IFFP since 2021 along with his family. Ben grew up in Owings Mills, MD and attended University of Maryland, College Park where he earned his bachelor’s degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. He earned a Master’s degree in Computer Science from Stanford University and is currently working as a principal engineer at AWS Elemental, an Amazon Web Services subsidiary, focusing on cloud services that address the media and entertainment market.
Ben and Katie married in an interfaith ceremony in 2018 and joined IFFP in 2021. In his spare time, Ben enjoys cooking, baking, playing chess, hiking, and playing with his vocal and excitable cat, Buttercup.