Ben Russell
Software Engineer at Self Employed Software Engineer
New South Wales, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolBen Russell is a seasoned software engineer from New South Wales with 12 years of experience building C/C++ toolkits and bespoke simulation software, best known for creating Gizmo64, an SDK that brings Lua scripting and multimedia capabilities to the X-Plane flight simulator. His work has been adopted by universities, aerospace companies including Airbus and ICON Aircraft, and has powered award-winning products and public demonstrations at major airshows and on the Discovery Channel. He designs cross-platform solutions end-to-end—shipping Mac and Windows releases—and has a track record of rapid, mission-driven deliveries such as custom flight models and network plugins for time-critical trade show deployments. Beyond engineering, he blends practical systems thinking with an artist-friendly API approach that lets content creators focus on creativity rather than low-level details. Off the clock he trains Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu to purple belt level, reflecting a disciplined, performance-oriented mindset.
13 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
TAFE NSW
Github Skills (27)
blueprint10
middleware10
artificial-intelligence10
full-text-search10
sql-query9
llm-inference9
esp82669
imgui9
machine-learning9
spiffs9
firmware9
espressif9
sql9
nodemcu9
x-plane9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
benrussell/Gizmo64.com
Sep 2013 - Sep 2022
Contributions:141 commits, 42 pushes, 6 comments in 9 years 1 month
benrussell/gizmo_avionics_licenses
Jun 2024 - Apr 2025
Contributions:293 pushes in 9 months
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