Ben Orchard
Business Owner at TechAssist22
Post Falls, Idaho, United States
Summary
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SeniorBen Orchard is an automation specialist and business owner with over three decades of hands-on experience using Opto 22 hardware and software and 9 years of documented professional experience culminating in founding TechAssist22. He spent 17 years at Opto 22 HQ as a Senior Application Engineer, building proofs-of-concept and training customers on groov, Node-RED, MQTT, PAC Project and Ignition, and previously operated as the sole building automation engineer for a major hospital managing thousands of I/O points. Ben blends field commissioning, panel fabrication, networking and cyber-physical integration with content creation—technical docs, webinars, videos and forum support—and even supported the Deepsea Challenger expedition. Based in Post Falls, Idaho, he now offers on-site commissioning and bespoke training to help organizations own their projects, drawing on a rare combination of factory-level insight and long-term operational experience. An inventive hobbyist, his GitHub work includes ADSC and ACARS mashups, reflecting a taste for creative data integrations beyond core industrial automation.
9 years of coding experience
35 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (121)
node-red10
satellite10
localai10
aircraft10
ai-chat10
satellite-data10
hardware10
llm-inference9
multimodal9
vector-database9
gpt4all9
agentic-ai9
crash9
llm9
garmin9
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
thebaldgeek/thebaldgeek.github.io
May 2021 - Jan 2023
Rough notes on how to go about setting up the hardware and software for ACARS decoding.
Contributions:380 commits, 457 pushes, 5 branches in 1 year 9 months
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thebaldgeek/autoTLEupdate
May 2021 - May 2021
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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