Ben Warfield
Staff Software Engineer at Flatiron Health
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
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Top SchoolBen Warfield is a Staff Software Engineer in Washington, D.C. with eight years of focused experience building reliable, high-impact systems for public-sector and health-tech organizations. He’s delivered production services at Flatiron Health and helped modernize pandemic-ready public health infrastructure and immigration benefits systems at the U.S. Digital Service, bringing practical full‑stack expertise across Java, Python, AWS, and data-backed platforms. Known for an almost unhealthy obsession with code quality and reuse, he combines hands-on implementation with architecture and modernization work, including authentication, session management, and data sync services. His background in chemistry (Yale) and an MS in Computer Science informs a methodical, data-oriented approach to problem solving that prefers durable solutions over quick fixes.
8 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
B.S., Chemistry, B.S., Chemistry at Yale UniversityM.S., Computer Science, M.S., Computer Science at Columbia Engineering
English, French
Github Skills (77)
testing10
terraform10
facilities10
spring-boot10
health10
graphql10
azure9
viewer9
terraform-provider9
spring9
java9
api8
rest8
spring-mvc8
spring-data8
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
usds/case-issue-api
Jul 2019 - Oct 2021
Back end services for the Case Issue Navigator.
Contributions:469 commits, 132 PRs, 203 pushes in 2 years 3 months
navigatornodejsback-end
CDCgov/prime-simplereport
Oct 2020 - Jun 2021
SimpleReport is a fast, free, and easy way for COVID-19 testing facilities to report results to public health departments.
Contributions:7 releases, 774 reviews, 602 commits in 8 months
spring-bootreport-tohealthdepartmentsreport
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