Benjamin Laroque
Software Engineer at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory - PNNL
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBenjamin Laroque is a software engineer with 14 years of experience specializing in architecting reliable, scalable, and extensible systems for constrained deployment environments. Based in Seattle and working at PNNL, he focuses on containerization, Kubernetes-driven deployments, and automation through templates and pipelines to ensure repeatable operations. His background as a physicist with a PhD informs a methodical approach to system design, bridging research rigor and production-grade engineering. Benjamin contributes to open-source projects like VOLTTRON, improving documentation and fixing subtle Python issues—evidence of his attention to maintainability and cross-platform reliability (including ARM FFI work). He excels at turning complex operational constraints into pragmatic deployment solutions that emphasize readability, reproducibility, and long-term maintainability.
14 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Physics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Physics at University of California, Santa BarbaraBachelor’s Degree, Physics, Bachelor’s Degree, Physics at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Github Skills (7)
rs10
python10
documentation10
rabbitmq9
bacnet8
modbus7
building-blocks6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
VOLTTRON/volttron
Jun 2019 - Apr 2020
VOLTTRON Distributed Control System Platform
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:38 reviews, 11 commits, 19 PRs in 10 months
Contributions summary:Benjamin primarily contributed to documentation updates and fixes, including improvements to RabbitMQ overview documentation. They also made code changes to address syntax issues in RST files, demonstrating a focus on documentation quality and readability. Additionally, the user made minor code modifications to Python scripts, including fixing serialization and deserialization of frames, and adding FFI to arm-based systems.
pythonmessage-busoffice-hoursdaemonosgi
laroque/config
Jan 2015 - Aug 2020
All of my mac/linux configuration files will go here.
Contributions:2 PRs, 36 pushes, 2 branches in 5 years 8 months
linux-configurationlinuxmacconfiguration-filesdotfiles
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