Benjamin Lee
Senior Software Engineer at Gusto
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolBenjamin Lee is a Senior Software Engineer with 14 years of experience modernizing complex, regulated domains—most recently building next-generation benefits and insurance platforms at Gusto. He previously led technology as CTO at Simple Life, architecting APIs and workflows that digitized policy transactions and automated underwriting for carriers and agencies. Comfortable across the stack, Benjamin combines scalable backend systems, RESTful APIs, modern JavaScript, and automated testing to replace legacy insurance tech with secure, auditable platforms. His background in biomedical engineering and early work as a patent examiner give him a detail-oriented, systems-thinking approach to complex business rules and sensitive data. Based in San Francisco, he blends startup pragmatism with product-focused engineering to accelerate integration, distribution, and self-service for HR and broker ecosystems.
14 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Johns Hopkins University
Stackoverflow
499reputation
15kreached
5answers
13questions
Github Skills (33)
queue8
native-extension8
task-manager8
hcard8
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amqp8
redis8
address-book7
python7
qr-code7
task-queue6
mongodb6
task-scheduler6
pymongo6
fabric6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
iiilx/django-addressbook
Aug 2011 - Mar 2014
Contributions:13 commits in 2 years 7 months
gravatargroupspythoncontactsvcard
iiilx/balajis-script
Jun 2021 - Jun 2021
a script that prints out every clout
Contributions:19 pushes in 1 day
cloutscript
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