Benjamin Stout
Senior Software Engineer at SmarterDx
Austin, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolBenjamin Stout is a senior full-stack software engineer with a decade of experience building language-agnostic, production-grade systems spanning hardware and software. He’s shipped ML-driven scheduling at scale for nationwide in-home care, led autonomic control and orchestration software for large-scale 3D construction robotics, and now applies that systems thinking at SmarterDx. Comfortable across embedded, backend, and orchestration layers, he designs resilient agentic workflows with dynamic error recovery and inter-machine coordination. A former tutor and mentor, he’s guided teams and junior engineers through complex projects and large-scale education platforms. Outside work he pursues music, biomimicry, and computational neuroscience—interests that inform his curiosity-driven approach to elegant, bio-inspired engineering.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Engineering, Computer Science at Seattle Pacific UniversityAssociate of Arts (A.A.), Associate of Arts (A.A.) at Olympic College
Spanish, German, Indonesian, English
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Github Skills (92)
docker-desktop10
rest-api10
validation10
rapid10
mvc-framework10
form-builder10
masonite10
php10
rapid-development10
cakephp9
docker-compose9
nette9
psr-79
mcrypt9
mvc9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
stoutput/PHP-Crypt
Mar 2019 - Feb 2022
Barebones Cryptography Library for PHP – libsodium (NaCl), OpenSSL, Mcrypt, and more
Contributions:1 release, 4 PRs, 85 pushes in 2 years 11 months
cryptographycryptography-librarylibsodium-phpsecurityphp
AudiologyHoldings/CakePHP-Seo-Plugin
Mar 2017 - May 2019
CakePHP Search Engine Optimization Plugin
Contributions:2 PRs, 5 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 2 months
phpoptimizationsearch-enginesearch-engine-optimizationsearch
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