Ben Klaas
Software Tools Engineer at Gridium
Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
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Top SchoolBen Klaas is a seasoned Software Tools Engineer with over two decades of experience building and automating systems across energy analytics, civic tech, consumer electronics, telecom, and earth science domains. Currently at Gridium, he applies data-driven software to help urban buildings reduce carbon footprints, drawing on deep expertise in Python, Perl, Lua, web stacks, and Linux operations. His background spans hands-on test automation (running tens of thousands of regression cases), web UI development, and building metadata tools for demographic research, showing a rare blend of legacy-system modernization and research-oriented tooling. Ben excels at bridging researcher and engineering needs—designing reproducible workflows with Pandas and Jupyter while also administering servers, voice systems, and network gear. A strong communicator and collaborator, he thrives in team environments and has a history of moving from community open-source contributor to product engineer (as at Logitech). His training in ecology and evolutionary biology underpins a systems-thinking approach that surfaces elegant, practical solutions to complex data and operational problems.
13 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
M.S., Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, M.S., Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Iowa State UniversityB.S., Zoology, B.S., Zoology at University of Wisconsin-MadisonAmes High School
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Github Skills (89)
slack-bot10
google-sheets10
excel10
xlwings10
jupyter-widget10
jupyter10
jupyterlab-extension10
jupyterlab10
wordcloud9
bolt9
recurly9
python9
discord-bot9
mpc9
policies9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
bklaas/Top10MostPunkBirds
May 2019 - Dec 2021
Contributions:5 commits, 6 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 7 months
bklaas/fontreplacer
Mar 2015 - Apr 2021
Contributions:6 commits, 6 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 2 months
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