Benjamin Gwin
Staff Software Engineer at Google
Sunnyvale, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBenjamin Gwin is a Senior Staff Software Engineer with 17 years of experience designing and shipping low-level firmware, drivers, and embedded C++ systems for datacenter hardware. Based in Sunnyvale, he has advanced through multiple roles at Google—most recently leading teams focused on embedded firmware for datacenter accelerators after contributing to TPU firmware and modeling. His background includes hands-on firmware work at EMC where he paired C/C++ with Python tooling, reflecting a practical knack for bridging production code and developer utilities. Known for a meticulous, byte-level attention to detail ("most likely to be seen staring at a hex dump"), he combines deep systems expertise with team leadership to deliver reliable firmware at scale. Unexpectedly, his career shows a consistent shift from individual contributor firmware work to architectural and people leadership while remaining deeply technical.
17 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
University of Alberta
Github Skills (35)
infiniband10
freertos10
mcu10
zephyr-rtos10
git-repository10
bluetooth-le10
microcontroller10
hardware10
zephyr10
iot10
rtos10
bluetooth10
embedded10
architectures10
scalable10
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
cathyjf/PokemonLabClient
Apr 2009 - Oct 2010
Contributions:156 commits in 1 year 6 months
bearzly/zephyr
Jun 2022 - Jan 2025
Primary Git Repository for the Zephyr Project. Zephyr is a new generation, scalable, optimized, secure RTOS for multiple hardware architectures.
Contributions:19 pushes, 5 branches in 2 years 7 months
architecturesscalablegit-repositorysecuresoftware-defined-radio
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