Cam Benfield
Technical Support Engineer at simplepractice
Rock Hill, South Carolina, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolCam Benfield is a technical support and senior tools engineer with eight years of experience building internal Rails and JavaScript tooling, mentoring developers-in-training, and bridging product and customer success to ship reliable fixes. Based in Rock Hill, SC, he pairs hands-on backend work—contributing to open-source projects like rubyforgood/casa to improve nonprofit case data presentation—with a background in product support and healthcare-focused customer service. His career blends full-stack problem solving from DecoNetwork with crisis-driven project leadership on the Open Source Ventilator effort, where he coordinated international teams and multilingual documentation. A lifelong learner (Flatiron Data Science alum and CS-major roots) who values social impact, he is motivated by using tech to expand access to healthcare and education and to support marginalized communities.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
High School, College/University Preparatory and Advanced High School/Secondary Diploma Program, 3.99 GPA, High School, College/University Preparatory and Advanced High School/Secondary Diploma Program, 3.99 GPA at West Lincoln High SchoolBiology, General, 3.50, Biology, General, 3.50 at Gaston CollegeData Science, Data Science at Flatiron School
English, Spanish
Github Skills (10)
management10
manager10
ruby-rails10
rails10
manage10
ruby10
ruby-on-rails9
activerecord9
casa7
cas6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
rubyforgood/casa
Feb 2021 - May 2021
Volunteer management system for nonprofit CASA, which serves foster youth in counties across America.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:3 reviews, 23 commits, 10 PRs in 3 months
Contributions summary:Cam's primary contributions focused on enhancing the display of case data within the `casa` application. They refactored views to conditionally display hearing type and judge information, implemented methods to check for the presence of these fields and updated the views accordingly. They also worked on summary updates by adding information about inactive cases to weekly digest emails and modifying case assignment logic, contributing to improved data presentation and user experience.
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cam-benfield/casa
May 2021 - Mar 2025
Volunteer management system for nonprofit CASA, which serves foster youth in counties across America.
Contributions:106 PRs, 124 pushes, 122 branches in 3 years 10 months
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