Summary
Benjamin Bean is a software engineer based in Albuquerque with 12 years of professional experience and a BS in Computer Science, currently developing systems at Sandia National Laboratories. He brings a strong embedded-systems and software background, having worked across national labs and engineering firms on projects that span C, C#, Java, JavaScript, and VHDL. His career includes roles at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory and several engineering consultancies, reflecting experience moving between research-grade systems and product-focused development. Benjamin combines low-level hardware design knowledge with higher-level software engineering, enabling end-to-end ownership from FPGA/VHDL through application code. Colleagues describe him as pragmatic and adaptable—equally comfortable debugging hardware interfaces as iterating on software features.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Bachelor's degree at New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology
Master's degree, Master's degree at The University of New Mexico