Benjamin Walcott
Software Engineer at Nava
Oregon, Wisconsin, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBenjamin Walcott is a full-stack software engineer with a decade of experience who transitioned from a biology PhD—where he wrote Fortran and Python for protein modeling—to building patient-facing systems at Epic and now contributing at Nava. He specializes in reliable, accessible user experiences, having shipped scheduling and safe check-in features for MyChart, the top-ranked healthcare app, while improving performance and accessibility. His scientific training gives him a strong grounding in simulation accuracy, rapid self-teaching of languages, and rigorous problem decomposition applied to product engineering. Based in Oregon, Wisconsin, he blends research rigor with production-grade software delivery and a demonstrated ability to move between low-level computational work and user-centered full-stack development.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Biology, General, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Biology, General at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Spanish, French
Github Skills (4)
wxpython10
windows1
nvda1
screen-reader1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
schenc3/InteractiveROSETTA
Nov 2015 - May 2018
A wxPython graphical interface for the PyRosetta and Rosetta protein modeling suites
Contributions:2 releases, 258 commits, 14 PRs in 2 years 6 months
wxpython
walcob/dessertIsland
May 2024 - Mar 2025
An iOS app for viewing dessert recipes
Contributions:11 PRs, 39 pushes, 7 branches in 9 months
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