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 (5)
rosetta10
wxpython9
modeling9
bioinformatics9
python7
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
schenc3/InteractiveROSETTA
Nov 2015 - May 2018
Contributions:2 releases, 258 commits, 14 PRs in 2 years 6 months
pythongraphical-interfaceprotein-modelingsuitesrosetta
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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