I love building and improving smart things - robots, mostly. I'll also take any opportunity to learn something new. As of June 2015 I'm at Counsyl, absorbing as much as possible about genomics and the design of automation systems.

Automation Engineer @ Writing the code that runs the robots, that perform the tests that produce the data, that inform the decisions made by the people that live in the house that jack built. From June 2015 to Present (7 months) San Francisco Bay AreaDirector of Mysterious Noises and Smells @ Acting secretary and one of three founding board members at Blacksburg's first hackerspace. From July 2012 to June 2015 (3 years) Robotics Institute Summer Scholar @ Researching applications of machine learning to manipulator target prediction in the Personal Robotics Lab. My work continued into the fall 2014 semester, while co-editing the RISS cohort's working papers journal. From June 2014 to August 2014 (3 months) Software Engineering Intern @ Developing tools to help the Site Reliability Engineering team on Flight Search. I was also a teaching assistant for Google's Computer Science Summer Institute for high school students. From May 2013 to August 2013 (4 months) Intern, Rational Integrations Gearbox Team @ Building Open Services for Lifecycle Integration [1] systems for IBM Rational products and other software development tools. [1] http://open-services.net From January 2012 to August 2012 (8 months) Student Developer @ Built a web application to simplify forensic information requests (email audits, disk images, &c). From May 2011 to September 2011 (5 months) Student Programmer, Help Desk Technician @ Assisted developers working on a RESTful web application for use in transportation research, by administrating several virtual machines and build environments. From June 2008 to September 2009 (1 year 4 months)

Bachelor of Science, Computer Engineering, 3.12/4.0 @ Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University From 2010 to 2015 Advanced Diploma, 3.91/4.0 @ Blacksburg High School From 2006 to 2010 Ben Weinstein-Raun is skilled in: C, Python, Linux, Problem Solving, C++, Communication, Digital Electronics, Bash, Digital Logic, ROS, Machine Learning, Algorithms, Software Design, Unix, LaTeX, Artificial Intelligence, Git, Robotics, Data Structures