Ben Collins
Director Of Engineering at Catch Mobile Health
Williamsburg, Virginia, United States
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SeniorBen Collins is a seasoned technology executive and hands‑on engineer with 26 years of experience building secure, production‑grade systems from hardware drivers to high‑level application code. Currently serving as Director of Engineering at WATTER and VP of Solutions Engineering and HIPAA Security Officer at Catch Mobile Health, he blends leadership, compliance, and deep implementation expertise. A former Debian Project Leader and Linux kernel developer, he continues to contribute to security‑sensitive open source projects such as a C JSON Web Token library implementing HMAC, RSA, and EC signing. He founded and runs SwissDisk, has led engineering organizations at RigNet and Viasat, and is comfortable dropping into assembly or architecting distributed services as needed. Based in Williamsburg, VA, Ben pairs entrepreneurial grit with a rare willingness to stay close to the code, and once found time between releases to play semi‑decent poker.
26 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
English
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Github Skills (7)
c1710
c1110
openssl10
rsa10
jsonwebtoken10
jwt10
base64-encoding10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
benmcollins/libjwt
May 2015 - Nov 2022
The C JSON Web Token Library +JWK +JWKS
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:19 releases, 17 reviews, 229 commits in 7 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Ben primarily focused on implementing and extending the functionality of a C JSON Web Token (JWT) library. They added features such as grant list management, including adding, deleting, and retrieving grants. A significant portion of their work involved implementing the JWT encoding functionality, including base64 encoding and signing using HMAC-SHA algorithms (HS256, HS384, HS512), as well as RSA and EC public key cryptography. The user also added supporting features like duplicated JWT objects, and refactored the code by introducing better design and modularity principles.
jwtc-libraryjsonjwkjwk-to-pem
cyphre-llc/slacknotify
Mar 2015 - Apr 2016
Contributions:28 commits, 5 pushes, 1 comment in 1 year 1 month
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