Ben Wirz
Founder, Principal Electrical Engineer & Engineering Manager at Element Products, Inc.
United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBen Wirz is a founder and principal electrical engineer with over two decades of hands-on experience designing award-winning consumer and industrial products and leading cross-functional engineering teams. He has a rare blend of deep analog/digital hardware expertise—PCBs, power electronics, motor control, low-power BLE systems—and product leadership, having taken devices from concept through mass production with U.S. and Asian manufacturers. As VP of Engineering at Sphero and founder of Element Products, he drove breakthroughs in IMU performance, real-time 3D scanning for mobile devices, and scalable robotics platforms like the Scribbler and ShotTracker. Notably, he extended a BLE iBeacon’s battery life from six months to over five years and architected advanced fence-security and underwater sonar communication systems, reflecting both creative problem-solving and manufacturability focus. Grounded in electrical engineering and physics, he combines executive-level strategy with firmware, mechanical injection molding, and app development experience to deliver cost-optimized, high-performance products.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
BS Electrical Engineering, BS Electrical Engineering at Washington University in St. LouisBS Physics, BS Physics at Drury University
Github Skills (35)
notification7
cache-control6
endpoint6
background-service6
persistent6
ftp-client6
preload6
multipart6
ftp-server5
resumable5
polling5
ftps5
filepond5
ftp5
dfu5
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
elemprod/lv5250
May 2022 - Nov 2022
Contributions:23 commits, 14 pushes, 1 branch in 6 months
elemprod/lptask
Jun 2023 - Jun 2024
Contributions:7 pushes in 11 months
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