Summary
Ben 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