Lawrence Bensaid

Developing & maintaining machine control systems for Fendt, Massey Ferguson, Valtra, Challenger Rogators & Terragators. Software engineering in the Electronics Functional Group (EFG) and advancing AGCO's AI infrastructure.

Deliverables include:

• Various MCP servers, RAG implementation for ISO complience
• Various agents including a development framework for firmware changes
• Work on ECU firmware, including EEPROM A2L migration & UI enhancements.
• Workshops & presentations to encourage adaptation within the team

Deliverables include:

• An MCP server to commission a robot arm
• An MCP server to semantically search a knowledge base through sentence transformers. Applying RAG to search company policy PDFs and answer questions.

Developed tools to prove & guarantee the load & resilience of the Twinscan. Working on R&D software for ASML's Twinscan lithography systems are among the most precise machines ever built. Contributing to System Software at the cutting edge of semiconductor manufacturing.

Deliverables include:

• A testbench queue prediction and insight tool
• Various software enhancements to benchmark Twinscan service pack releases.

Led the technical direction of the Microservices & Search team at Signify (Philips Lighting). Established architecture patterns adopted company-wide. Deliverables include:

• Docker dev containers
• Terraform IaC definitions
• Design decisions on Cloud architecture (Akamai CDN vs CloudFlare) & testing strategies (API testing & Gattling load testing)
• Conflict resolution within the team
• Workshops & presentations to share knowledge on improving the architecture (IaC, CDNs, Sandboxing, etc.) and how to enhance team processes (Scrum, Way-of-Working, Releases & versioning).

Joined Signify as a Technical Engineer on the Microservices & Search platform, working on distributed systems serving Philips Lighting's global product catalogue. Deliverables include:

• Migrations from Oracle cloud database to microservices architecture utilising AWS DynamoDB, GraphQL, and Spring Boot
• Multi-platform app to demonstrate use of microservices, allowing teams to play around in a fake environment
• Work on microservices endpoints

@Philips_Hue | Hue Connected R&D | Hue Infrastructure Team (HIT). Worked on computer vision pipelines for Philips Hue smart lighting products. Built image processing tools using Python and OpenCV.

Ran ML experiments and production data pipelines on GCP and Databricks. Built product classification models with TensorFlow and an early NLP chatbot.

Full-stack software engineering at a Dutch fintech (Tinka, part of Wehkamp). Built internal tooling, a 3D communication visualisation using Neo4j, and cross-platform mobile apps.

Internship at National Instruments (NI), working on test and measurement software using Java.

Deliverables include:

• Jira plugin which allows users to see their colleague's MS Teams presence inside of Jira tickets.

Founded and operated Software Essentials, building and shipping iOS apps, libraries, and plugins as a sole operator. Handled everything from architecture to App Store delivery.