Ben Liyanage
Data Engineering Manager
Bend, Oregon, United States
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Top SchoolBen Liyanage is a Data Engineering Manager with 12 years of experience building data platforms, teams, and product-aligned engineering practices primarily in HIPAA-regulated healthcare. He founded Vida Health’s Data Engineering function, hiring and leading a lean team to deliver a modern stack (Airflow, dbt, BigQuery, Vertex AI) that supported clinical outcomes, billing, and ML use cases. Prior roles span startups and scale-ups where he architected pipelines for DICOM, HL7, and large-scale ETL, drove CI/CD, and translated clinical requirements into compliant technical solutions. Ben combines hands-on engineering (from Spark and Java to Python and Terraform) with product-driven leadership—authoring vision docs, OKRs, and governance frameworks like HITRUST/HIPAA compliance. Based in Bend, Oregon, he’s selectively focused on making measurable impact in medical technology and is known for being the go-to cross-team coordinator who can both ship code and shape strategy. Interestingly, he jokes that he “drinks coffee and makes bugs,” reflecting a pragmatic, hands-on approach to building reliable systems.
12 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts, Computer Science, Bachelor of Arts, Computer Science at Goucher CollegeNewton North Highschool
French, English
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Github Skills (192)
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Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
BenLiyanage/vagrant-python
Apr 2014 - Oct 2017
Contributions:81 commits, 5 PRs, 49 pushes in 3 years 7 months
pythonvagrantansiblepython-developmentbootstrap
BenLiyanage/rollbar-java
Aug 2018 - Sep 2023
Rollbar for Java and Android
Contributions:2 PRs, 2 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 1 month
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