Benjamin Watts
Staff Software Engineer at Hiscox USA
Portland, Oregon, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBenjamin Watts is a Staff Software Engineer with 12 years of experience who focuses on testing, team enablement, and delivering reliable software from Portland, Oregon. He has advanced through engineering and leadership roles at Vouch Insurance—where he helped build a digitally-first insurance product for startups—and now drives technical work at Hiscox USA. Known for TDD, mentoring, and navigating large legacy codebases, he blends hands-on delivery with coaching to accelerate teams under tight deadlines. His background at Pivotal Labs honed his consulting and facilitation skills, making him effective at aligning diverse stakeholders around pragmatic engineering decisions. Comfortable in fast-moving startup environments and enterprise contexts alike, he brings measured technical judgment and a bias toward enabling others to succeed. An economist by training, he pairs analytical thinking with practical software craftsmanship.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
BA Economics, BA Economics at Seattle University
Github Skills (126)
controller10
cloud-foundry10
foundry10
pcf10
sap-cap9
ruby9
concourse9
alibabacloud8
elm8
continuous-delivery8
command-line-interface8
semantic8
continuous-integration8
gocd8
sap-hana8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
bewatts/teaching-yourself-to-program
Jan 2014 - Dec 2021
Contributions:7 commits, 1 push in 8 years
bewatts/xelm
Sep 2015 - Mar 2016
Contributions:13 commits, 1 PR, 9 pushes in 6 months
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