Ben Creasy
Senior Engineering Manager, Enterprise Architecture at Empower
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolBen Creasy is a senior engineering manager and enterprise architect based in San Francisco with 11 years of experience modernizing large-scale systems for financial services. He transitioned from regulatory work in Alaska—where he automated enforcement workflows, built SQL-backed Flask apps, and produced analyses that saved consumers over $1.5M—into full-time software engineering with a focus on JavaScript front-ends (React/Angular) and Node backends. At Empower he drives modernization and propagation of engineering best practices across a company managing over $1 trillion in assets. He brings a pragmatic full-stack skill set rooted in Python/Flask, SQL, and front-end frameworks, combined with hands-on leadership and systems thinking. Outside of work he contributes to knowledge ecosystems (Wikipedia), advocates for government efficiency and electoral reform, and balances technical curiosity with outdoor pursuits like snowboarding and soccer. A Hack Reactor-trained engineer with a BA in economics and philosophy, he blends analytic rigor with a knack for turning repetitive processes into automated, auditable solutions.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Advanced Software Engineering Immersive, Advanced Software Engineering Immersive at Hack ReactorBA, Economics, Philosophy, with honors, BA, Economics, Philosophy, with honors at Pacific University
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Github contributions (5)
jcrben/careful-harmonica
Mar 2015 - Jun 2015
Contributions:60 pushes, 13 branches in 3 months
careful-harmonica/careful-harmonica
Mar 2015 - Apr 2018
Contributions:26 PRs, 9 pushes, 2 branches in 3 years 1 month
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