Ben Nizette
Chief Technology Officer at Liquid Instruments
Canberra, Australia
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Top SchoolBen Nizette is a pragmatic technology leader and CTO based in Canberra with 12 years of experience building and shipping complex electronic hardware and low-level software systems. He blends deep systems engineering expertise—FPGA, microcontrollers, Linux, microkernels and real-time OS—with product leadership, having progressed from senior engineer to product director and now CTO at Liquid Instruments. Known for clear technical communication across expert and non-technical audiences, he has repeatedly translated research and academic rigour (lecturer at ANU) into commercial products and startups. Comfortable oscillating between hands-on design and strategic roadmap decisions, he brings a rare combination of electronics integration know-how and product-focused execution. Anecdotally, his background in both mechatronic engineering and theoretical physics helps him bridge practical engineering constraints with analytical problem solving.
12 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Australian National University
Stackoverflow
21reputation
3kreached
1answer
0questions
Github Skills (52)
python-requests10
python9
http9
http-client9
jinja28
template-engine8
javascript8
drones7
python-bindings7
graphql6
aws-amplify6
amazon-web-services6
aws-appsync6
expressive5
git-merge5
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
benizl/wai
Jun 2017 - Apr 2023
Waveform measurement and statistics toolbox
Contributions:1 review, 1 PR, 5 pushes in 5 years 11 months
cogsy23/linux-hg
Jan 2015 - Jul 2016
Contributions:23 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 6 months
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