# Ben Liepert

> Software Engineer at Nominal

Location: New York, New York, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/benliepert

Interested in Rust
Graduate of Denison University with a B.S. in Computer Science

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Nominal
Jan 2026 – Present | New York, New York, United States

### Software Engineer @ 908 Devices
Jan 2021 – Jan 2026 | Boston, Massachusetts, United States
- Generalist feature implementation and bug-fixing for the MX908, Rebel (C++/Qt, Yocto/Windows/Torizon), & Maverick (Typescript/React/Python, Torizon).
- Trusted production contact. Surface, advocate for, and unblock issues.
- Gathered requirements and implemented numerous manufacturing widgets that coordinate hardware and produce detailed reports to enable testing, calibration, and/or qualification of: vacuum pumps, pressure sensors, thermal desorption/aerosol sampling frontends, serial port hardware.
- Manage knowledge transfer/integration for products obtained under the TRACE Analytics acquisition. Led onsite technical support for a local customer to resolve DeltaV/OPC connectivity issues.
- Ongoing advocate of Rust, including a 1 day crash course for colleagues. 
- Internal Rust development: 
    - Rewrote hardware control stack for the Maven online glucose/lactate analysis device, running on Torizon OS on a Raspberry Pi 4. Interfaced with legacy components/firmware to drive 3 peristaltic pumps, biosensor, and status LEDs. Sync/async (tokio) backends, gRPC/REST (tonic/actix) APIs. 
    - Serial driver/UI for the Spark-Holland Alias Autosampler.
    - Rewrote core (originally C++) stack to flash firmware and read telemetry, via USB, from the Cyclone V FPGA in the MX908.
    - Built CLI tool to plot MX908 telemetry data. Used to qualify performance.
- Led MX908 environmental qualification. Designed overheating mitigations deployed in thousands of fielded units.
- Led investigation and integration of Rerun into Torizon-based products to enable performant logging of arbitrary data and streamline debugging.
- Developed C++ libraries for i2c devices (ST M24 EEPROM, ST LPS28DFW temperature sensor). Familiar with serial/I2C/USB devices and interpreting datasheets.

### Software Engineer @ Stratus Technologies
Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | Maynard, Massachusetts
* Worked on a fault tolerant edge computing solution with Linux (CentOS, Ubuntu, Arch), C/C++, python, bash, and Jira in an agile/scrum environment.
* Designed a CI strategy for applying proprietary patches to RPM packaged open source components. Supported Stratus' integration of up-stream changes to virtualization libraries such as libguestfs and virt-v2v/p2v.
* Designed and implemented a declarative Jenkins pipeline for CI testing. Improvements over the prior solution include: addition of source control tracking, decoupling cross-network components, clarifying failure modes, and simplified reporting.
* Implemented a test suite in Python to verify tolerance of basic failures. Used in CI to verify core functionality on a lightweight build.

### Student Tutor @ Denison University
Jan 2017 – Jan 2019 | Granville, OH
* Tutored 24 students individually on a weekly basis in both introductory and intermediate Computer Science (approximately 5 per semester).
* This multi-year experience has helped me develop patience, explanatory skills, and attention to detail.

### Software Engineering Intern @ 908 Devices
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Boston, MA
* Worked with numerous pieces of hardware to coordinate a calibration program for pressure sensors using C++ and Qt, which involved serial communication and coordination of data collection and UI updates. 
* Gained experience working with an unfamiliar codebase; writing well structured, object-oriented code; and interfacing at a low level with instruments.

### Software Engineering Intern @ 908 Devices
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Boston, MA
* Worked with embedded systems in Qt and C++ to build two testing widgets for the M908 mass spectrometer. 
* Developed consideration for the user experience and worked to coordinate it with underlying processes.

### Production Intern @ 908 Devices
Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 | Boston, MA
* Assembled cores for the M908 mass spectrometer, which included working with small parts as well as soldering, quality control, and testing.
* Improved my dexterity, consistency, and adherence to a strict production schedule.


## Education
### Computer Science in Computer Science
Denison University


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/ben-liepert-9287b0163
- Portfolio: https://benliepert.github.io/RDLA/

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Last updated: 2026-03-28