Ash Benz
Self Employed
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAsh Benz is a multidisciplinary creator and front-end developer based in Chicago with a decade of hands-on experience blending art, software, and emergency services. A former flight and tactical paramedic/dispatcher who rose quickly into leadership and training roles, Ash applies the same discipline and user-centered communication to crafting custom portraits and intuitive web interfaces. Their open-source work includes low-level contributions to the OpenWrt project—adding device support and firmware tooling for a TP-Link router—highlighting comfort with embedded systems alongside UI work. Comfortable running a solo creative business and collaborating directly with clients, Ash also brings practical crisis-management instincts and a detail-oriented approach honed in high-pressure rescue environments. Off-duty, they’re a Chicagoan with two corgis and an eye for translating complex briefs into memorable, polished outcomes.
10 years of coding experience
Molecular and Cellular Biology, Molecular and Cellular Biology at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Github Skills (22)
routers10
hardware-interface10
firmware10
ip10
router10
c-programming10
linux-kernel10
integrations10
networking10
openwrt10
device-tree10
dts10
sys10
system-integration10
dt10
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
openwrt/openwrt
Mar 2019 - Mar 2019
This repository is a mirror of https://git.openwrt.org/openwrt/openwrt.git It is for reference only and is not active for check-ins. We will continue to accept Pull Requests here. They will be merged via staging trees then into openwrt.git.
Role in this project:
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions:2 comments in 1 day
Contributions summary:Ash primarily contributed to the OpenWrt project by adding support for the TP-Link Archer C2600 router. This included adding a Device Tree Source (DTS) file, modifying the build system to include the device, and updating the firmware utility to support the new hardware. These changes involved file modifications related to board configuration, flash memory support, and low-level hardware initialization within the OpenWrt ecosystem.
openwrt
ashbenz/source
Jul 2017 - Aug 2017
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch, 2 comments in 25 days
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