About

Ben Wilson is a Senior Software Development Engineer at Workday with over 22 years of experience in the field. He is a creative thinker with the ability to assess the applicability of emerging technologies to contribute to software design and strategic roadmap. Ben is experienced in architecting and developing solutions at all levels of the development stack, with a proven ability to lead successful software teams and translate high-level strategic business objectives to executable development team plans. Ben has excellent interpersonal and communication skills and has strong sales support and client management experience. He is skilled in dealing directly with clients on a technical or sales support level and is adept at translating high-level strategic business objectives and requirements to development teams for implementation. He enjoys working at a peer level with other senior developers, in a mentoring role to more junior staff, or as a team lead. Ben is also familiar with interviewing potential team members and coaching existing personnel. Ben is skilled in client account management from initial presentation to negotiating requirements to ongoing support. He has the ability to suggest new technologies and strategies to advance an organization's goals in the marketplace. Ben is experienced with the importance of protecting patient data (PII/PPI) and Good Clinical Practice (GxP) in a validated software environment. In his previous roles, Ben worked as a Solutions Architect at Induction Healthcare Limited, where he developed an authentication system in TypeScript to provide performance and security boost to the existing Ruby-On-Rails implementation. He also integrated Induction Healthcare's existing API and App with the Kong perimeter security system and designed service configuration and performed deployments using Docker/OpenShift/Kubernetes. At ERT, Ben worked as a Solutions Architect for the Element Hybrid App/WebApp automated build system for iOS, Android, and Web. He also played a lead role in integrating Element with ERT Digital Patient's Gather platform. Ben holds a B.Eng in Computer Systems from the University of Victoria. His technical skills include Software Engineering, Ruby, Kubernetes, Docker, Typescript, iOS, and Web.