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Benjamin J. Skiff

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I’m Benjamin Skiff, a lead full-stack software engineer with 8+ years of experience building and shipping web and mobile products in healthcare, financial services, and consumer spaces.

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I’m Benjamin Skiff, a lead full-stack software engineer with 8+ years of experience building and shipping web and mobile products in healthcare, financial services, and consumer spaces. I enjoy owning features end to end—from architecture and backend services to React/Next.js interfaces and reliable background processing—while partnering closely with product and engineering leaders to turn requirements into production-ready systems.

  • 7 years' experience
  • Joined October 2026

Industry experience

  • Healthcare
  • Financial Services
  • Software & Internet
  • Consumer Goods

Work experience· 5 roles

Lead Full-Stack Engineer · Vessel Partners (Contractor)Sep 2023 – Present · 3 yrs 3 mos

Serve as the lead and sole hands-on developer for a multi-tenant allergy-care platform built from scratch using Ruby on Rails, React, TypeScript, Next.js, PostgreSQL, Sidekiq, and Capacitor. Build patient- and provider-facing applications supporting multiple allergy-shot locations and an at-home allergy-drops program. Own end-to-end in-clinic workflows including patient check-in, seat assignment, treatment administration, configurable timers, provider oversight, and completion tracking. Develop end-to-end features spanning allergy testing, drop orders/shipments, patient symptom surveys, notifications, treatment history, and provider review of patient data. Implement personalized environmental allergy tracking by comparing patient sensitivities with local allergen data using opt-in location tracking or ZIP lookup, including a migration from Google Pollen API to Ambee. Build an AI assistant using RubyLLM with retrieval over clinic procedure documents, access controls, and clinical guardr

Lead Full-Stack Engineer (Contractor) · Vessel PartnersSep 2023 – Present · 3 yrs 3 mos

Led and served as the sole hands-on developer for a multi-tenant allergy-care platform built from scratch using Ruby on Rails, React, TypeScript, Next.js, PostgreSQL, Sidekiq, and Capacitor. Owned major full-stack areas including patient and provider web/mobile applications, multi-location in-clinic workflows (check-in, seating, treatment administration, configurable timers, provider oversight, completion tracking), and supporting flows for allergy testing, orders/shipments for allergy drops, symptom surveys, notifications, treatment history, and provider review. Implemented personalized environmental allergy tracking using opt-in location tracking or ZIP lookup, migrating from Google Pollen API to Ambee. Built an AI assistant using RubyLLM with retrieval over clinic procedure documents and access controls/clinical guardrails to reduce inappropriate recommendations. Designed core multi-tenant data models and owned the full engineering lifecycle: architecture, backend/frontend implement

Front-End Engineer (Part-Time Contractor) · FingageApr 2023 – Sep 2023 · 6 mos

Developed React and TypeScript user interfaces for a financial-services web application. Implemented responsive UI features, product enhancements, and bug fixes within an existing Create React App codebase.

Full-Stack Engineer (Contractor) · Vessel PartnersApr 2021 – Dec 2022 · 1 yr 9 mos
Full-Stack Web and Mobile Developer · Wikilane Inc.Jun 2018 – Apr 2020 · 1 yr 11 mos

Education

Bachelor of Arts in Physics (Minor in Mathematics) · Washington & Jefferson College2012 – 2016
Full-Stack Ruby on Rails Coding Bootcamp · Le Wagon2018
Bachelor of Arts in Physics (Minor in Mathematics) · Washington & Jefferson College2012 – 2016
Full-Stack Ruby on Rails Coding Bootcamp · Le Wagon2018

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