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.
8 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 (9)
wifi7
minecraft6
esp326
python5
backend5
codebase3
monitoring3
microcontroller3
mongodb2
Programming languages (7)
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
delta-12/delta-12.github.io
Feb 2022 - Jan 2026
Contributions:22 pushes, 3 branches in 3 years 11 months
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