Ben Hancock
Summary
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SeniorBen Hancock is a Senior Product Data Engineer based in the San Francisco Bay Area with eight years of experience building data-driven products for legal and journalism audiences. He leads data pipeline design and development at ALM, powering products like Law.com Radar with Python, Airflow, Postgres, and MarkLogic to ingest and enrich federal and state court data at scale. A former award-winning reporter and data editor, he blends newsroom instincts for storytelling and source discovery with rigorous engineering practices to surface actionable legal insights. He has shepherded cross-organizational data literacy initiatives and designed trend-detection features that turn messy public records into product-ready signals. Comfortable across SQL and document stores, he pairs pragmatic tooling (pandas, Flask) with system-level thinking to make complex legal datasets accessible. Beyond engineering, his background in international reporting and Korean language study gives him a rare lens on policy, regulatory nuance, and global data sources.
8 years of coding experience
Github Skills (19)
calendars9
python8
database6
pygments5
publish4
jinja24
debian3
userspace3
javascript3
markdown3
to-do2
hugo2
emacs-lisp1
visualization1
text-editor1
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
benghancock/calscrape
Apr 2018 - May 2020
rapidly search judicial calendars
Contributions:256 commits, 68 pushes, 5 branches in 2 years 2 months
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benghancock/ancient-places
Jul 2023 - Oct 2023
Contributions:54 pushes, 1 branch, 4 tags in 3 months
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