Benjamin Esquieres
Software Engineer
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBenjamin Esquieres is a pragmatic software engineer with eight years of hands-on experience in embedded systems, controls, and robotics, currently finishing an accelerated Master's in Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Pittsburgh. He has built safety-critical firmware and tooling for gas sensors and defense hardware—writing MISRA-compliant bootloaders, CAN drivers using J1939, and USB-to-SPI gateways—while validating new devices with J-Link, Lauterbach, and logic analyzers. Comfortable across C/C++ on STM32 and Zephyr RTOS, Python test automation, and hardware-in-the-loop setups, he bridges low-level device work with higher-level integration and visualization using Mujoco and custom Python tooling. Benjamin’s background shows a pattern of tackling rugged, regulated domains where reliability matters, from automated SCBA integration tests to PID-tuned hydraulic systems for artillery handling. Based in Pittsburgh, he blends academic rigor with practical field validation and a curiosity for UAVs and robotics that drives cross-disciplinary problem solving.
7 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma, -, High School Diploma, - at Parkland High SchoolMaster's degree, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Master's degree, Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of Pittsburgh
Github Skills (17)
wifi7
esp326
fabric6
waterfall6
controlling6
minecraft6
backend5
prototyping5
software-update5
codebase5
python5
ota4
iot3
monitoring3
server3
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
delta-12/trains
Aug 2024 - Dec 2024
Pitt SSoE ECE 1140 Systems & Project Engineering
Contributions:64 reviews, 53 PRs, 226 pushes in 3 months
CAVEMaN-SeniorDesign/CAVeTalk
Feb 2025 - Mar 2025
CAVEMAN controller message protocol
Contributions:36 reviews, 21 PRs, 73 pushes in 1 month
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