Benjamin Reinhardt
CEO at Speculative Technologies
New York City Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBenjamin Reinhardt is a founder and CEO with a decade of experience building hardware-forward ventures and research programs at the intersection of embedded systems, robotics, and applied machine learning. He led technical product development at Magic Leap, founded a robot-assisted elder-care startup, and now runs Speculative Technologies while advising institutional innovation at Astera Institute. Trained as a mechanical engineer and PhD researcher at Cornell, he has deep hands-on expertise in electromagnetic actuators, controls, and signal integrity that informs his current embedded hardware work and home server hobby projects. Comfortable switching between lab prototypes and go-to-market strategy, he has a pattern of turning spare-time projects into core product features and teams. Based in the New York City area, he prefers direct email or Twitter DMs over broad LinkedIn connections, reflecting a selective, network-first approach to collaboration.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
North Carolina School of Science and MathematicsCalifornia Institute of TechnologyDoctor of Philosophy (PhD) Mechanical Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Mechanical Engineering at Cornell University
English, math, Latin
Github Skills (200)
proton10
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trello10
yubikey10
authentication10
transmission10
security10
plex10
sso-authentication10
wine10
compressor10
synology10
photography10
linux10
push-notifications10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
JustEnoughDucks/LibreMiG-S
Oct 2022 - Mar 2023
Open Source Joystick/Open Source Flightstick that combines the Olukelu Gimbal with a MiG-31 inspired Flightstick designed for Star Citizen or space simulators
Contributions:43 commits, 2 PRs, 54 pushes in 5 months
bpgerber/bpgerber.github.io
Nov 2017 - Jun 2018
Contributions:84 pushes, 1 branch in 7 months
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