Ben Buchwald
Senior Software Engineer at Level99 Entertainment
Somerville, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolBen Buchwald is a Senior Software Engineer with 9 years of professional experience and a long history designing interactive systems for themed entertainment and games. He specializes in integrating unique hardware inputs and outputs with software—building control systems, custom devices, and operator interfaces that power immersive attractions and meeting-space demos. His work spans startups and studios from Harmonix and Hasbro to Google and Level99 Entertainment, where he ships polished, production-ready experiences that blend physical and digital interaction. Ben’s background in show control and experience engineering includes innovations like automatic difficulty/length adjustment for throughput management and touchscreen operator tools that improve reliability under live conditions. Trained at Carnegie Mellon with a Master of Entertainment Technology, he brings both rigorous CS fundamentals and hands-on prototyping chops to rapidly turn novel hardware concepts into robust user-facing systems.
9 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University
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Github Skills (94)
python10
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pypi-server10
django-models10
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Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
sparkyb/pypiserver
Feb 2021 - Dec 2023
Minimal PyPI server for uploading & downloading packages with pip/easy_install
Contributions:28 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 10 months
downloadingpythoneasy-installpippypi
sparkyb/win-10-virtual-desktop-enhancer
Oct 2018 - Mar 2019
An application that enhances the Windows 10 multiple desktops feature by adding additional keyboard shortcuts and support for multiple wallpapers.
Contributions:8 commits, 4 pushes in 4 months
keyboard-shortcutswindows
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