Benjamin Wolsieffer
Embedded Software Engineer at Nortek
Manchester-by-the-Sea, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolBenjamin Wolsieffer is an embedded software engineer with 12 years of experience building robust firmware and system software for air- and water-operating machines, now working at Nortek. He holds both a BA in Computer Science and a BE in Robotics from Dartmouth and completed a CS master's, blending academic rigor with hands-on field deployments. Benjamin has led power-optimization and platform migrations for underwater gliders on STM32/Linux, and has designed mission-critical firmware and ground systems for projects including Mars 2020 and Antarctic IceNode. Comfortable across software, electrical, and mechanical domains, he routinely debugs hardware-software interactions in austere environments. Based in Manchester-by-the-Sea, he combines deep embedded systems expertise with practical deployment experience and maintains a technical portfolio at benwolsieffer.com.
12 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at Dartmouth CollegeBachelor of Engineering - BE, Robotics, Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Robotics at Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth
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Github Skills (23)
buildroot10
architecture10
c1110
makefile10
c1710
uclibc10
sys10
arm10
embedded10
architectures10
linux-kernel9
u-boot9
git7
html6
ruby-on-rails6
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
lopsided98/nix-ros-overlay
Mar 2019 - Dec 2022
ROS overlay for the Nix package manager
Contributions:14 reviews, 617 commits, 539 PRs in 3 years 10 months
package-managerrosoverlay
lopsided98/aur-buildbot
Dec 2017 - Oct 2024
Contributions:41 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 11 months
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