Ben Blumer
Consultant at Reify Robotics
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolBen Blumer is a robotics software consultant with 12 years of hands-on experience building deployed mobile robots and robot-arm systems for factories, construction sites, and operating rooms. He specializes in motion planning, localization, perception, and ROS-based architectures, with production work in Python and C++ and contributions to ROS Core and ROS2 drivers. As a founder and founding engineer he led product and engineering at ShapeMeasure—developing a submillimeter LIDAR, CNC firmware, and a Django operations stack—helping the company scale to $500K ARR and secure venture funding and a US patent. Comfortable across software, mechanical design, and embedded firmware, he fills the “loose pieces” on lean teams, from circuit design and microcontroller RTOS code to mechanical fabrication. Based in Vancouver, he now seeks a hands-on role to push cutting-edge robotics into real-world applications, and his portfolio includes practical demos and videos highlighting unconventional sensor and system integrations.
12 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
M.A.Sc Mechanical Engineering, M.A.Sc Mechanical Engineering at The University of British ColumbiaB.Sc. (first-class honours) Physics, B.Sc. (first-class honours) Physics at University of Calgary
English, German, Swedish, French, Icelandic
Github Skills (110)
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Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
BenBlumer/Gazebo_WAM
Oct 2013 - Nov 2013
Contributions:28 commits in 15 days
BenBlumer/WAMPy
Jun 2014 - Mar 2015
Contributions:6 commits, 2 pushes in 9 months
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