Ben Liyanage
Data Engineering Manager at Vida Health- Claim this Profile
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Vida Health
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United States
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Wellness and Fitness Services
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200 - 300 Employee
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Data Engineering Manager
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Jan 2021 - Present
United States Vida Health supports patients in the management of chronic conditions like Diabetes, Hypertension and Anxiety. During my tenure at Vida Health I: * Established the Data Engineering department at an organization with pent up data needs. * Hired and Managed a team of 3 Data Engineers. * Supported the activities of Data Scientists, Analysts, Contractors, and Health care professionals. * Serviced Stakeholders around key business processes like clinical outcome reporting… Show more Vida Health supports patients in the management of chronic conditions like Diabetes, Hypertension and Anxiety. During my tenure at Vida Health I: * Established the Data Engineering department at an organization with pent up data needs. * Hired and Managed a team of 3 Data Engineers. * Supported the activities of Data Scientists, Analysts, Contractors, and Health care professionals. * Serviced Stakeholders around key business processes like clinical outcome reporting, records collections, multichannel marketing, and billing. * Designed, Procured, and lead the build out of a modern data platform with an incredibly lean team consisting of tools like Airflow, dbt, Looker, Braze, Firestore, Workato, BigQuery, FeatureStore and terraform. * Supported Data Science in the design of our ML Platform, including elements like BigQuery ML, and VertexAI. * Designed, and Lead the Implemented of our data governance framework that ensured compliance with industry regulations like HIPAA and HITRUST. * Authored product vision documents and OKRs to influence key stakeholders. * Authored technical requirements documents, maintained road map, and managed multiple jira backlogs. Show less
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Braid Health
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United States
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Biotechnology Research
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1 - 100 Employee
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Senior Software Engineer
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Sep 2019 - Apr 2020
San Francisco Bay Area Braid Health is a digital health innovation company focused on the development of an AI-powered diagnostic collaboration platform for radiology and the healthcare industry. * HIPAA compliant environment * Helped build the core product, a progressive web application built with React and CouchDB used in an offline-first clinical setting. * Parsed and warehoused DICOM metadata into our canonical model. * Supported the Asia Pacific team deploy and troubleshoot our early stage… Show more Braid Health is a digital health innovation company focused on the development of an AI-powered diagnostic collaboration platform for radiology and the healthcare industry. * HIPAA compliant environment * Helped build the core product, a progressive web application built with React and CouchDB used in an offline-first clinical setting. * Parsed and warehoused DICOM metadata into our canonical model. * Supported the Asia Pacific team deploy and troubleshoot our early stage startup software. * Hands on clinical experience installing our x-ray workstation software to capture DICOM images. * Designed and implemented our CI/CD solution for weekly deployments minimizing software regressions in a rapidly changing code base. Show less
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Senior Data Platform Engineer
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Nov 2017 - Feb 2019
San Francisco Bay Area Grand Rounds helps companies' employees get the most out of their healthcare and benefits by improving patient outcomes, and reducing healthcare spending. The company has raised $100+ million in their C round of funding. * HIPAA compliant environment * Built systems that processed HL7 insurance data for almost all 50 states. * Helped build the new data pipeline using Java, and Spark. * Used Terraform to manage AWS resources like Redshift, Cloud Functions, and more. *… Show more Grand Rounds helps companies' employees get the most out of their healthcare and benefits by improving patient outcomes, and reducing healthcare spending. The company has raised $100+ million in their C round of funding. * HIPAA compliant environment * Built systems that processed HL7 insurance data for almost all 50 states. * Helped build the new data pipeline using Java, and Spark. * Used Terraform to manage AWS resources like Redshift, Cloud Functions, and more. * Improved thread safety in a number of legacy Ruby data pipelines improving availability. Show less
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Rentlytics
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United States
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Software Development
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Lead Software Engineer
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Feb 2015 - Nov 2017
San Francisco, California Rentlytics is the leader in the Multi Family Real Estate Industry that provides actionable Business Intelligence to property owners, property management firms, and real estate investors. During my stay at Rentlytics we went from having no paying customers to earning over 4 million in annual recurring revenue, and grew from a 10 person company to about 50. Rentlytics was purchased in 2018 for ~50 million. * Adopted the scrum development methodology, improving developer… Show more Rentlytics is the leader in the Multi Family Real Estate Industry that provides actionable Business Intelligence to property owners, property management firms, and real estate investors. During my stay at Rentlytics we went from having no paying customers to earning over 4 million in annual recurring revenue, and grew from a 10 person company to about 50. Rentlytics was purchased in 2018 for ~50 million. * Adopted the scrum development methodology, improving developer productivity. * Led a team of five developers. * Worked with customers and internal stakeholders to build and gather requirements. * Built and scaled a data pipeline that converted ~40k PDF reports into a data warehouse using RabbitMQ. * Built the canonical model allowing comparisons between different customer data sets using Sisense BI. * Developed Django and Django REST rest features for the core product using Python. * Architected and automated infrastructure and software deployment using Chef. Show less
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Technical Project Manager
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Apr 2010 - Apr 2014
Baltimore, Maryland Area Edge is a managed hosting provider that is committed to delivering 100% uptime, at a predictable monthly cost. We specialized in PCI, and HIPAA compliant hosting. During my stay at Edge our annual revenue grew 30% year over year, and we grew from a 10 person company to a 50 person company. * HIPAA compliant environment * Hired and managed a team of three developers * Project leader around our website, marketing, and advertising tripling our traffic and sales. * Implemented… Show more Edge is a managed hosting provider that is committed to delivering 100% uptime, at a predictable monthly cost. We specialized in PCI, and HIPAA compliant hosting. During my stay at Edge our annual revenue grew 30% year over year, and we grew from a 10 person company to a 50 person company. * HIPAA compliant environment * Hired and managed a team of three developers * Project leader around our website, marketing, and advertising tripling our traffic and sales. * Implemented EpicorITSM, a customer relationship management (CRM) system that handles ticketing, asset management, and sales lead management. * Designed and built our self service customer facing portal that gave access to customers to various systems like our DNS, VMware, backups, system alerting, and load balancers. * Data warehoused all information about our datacenter of ~2,000 devices for auditing and reporting needs. * Implemented and maintained ScienceLogic, which monitors the devices in our datacenter to ensure 99.999% availability. * Implemented Continuous Integration with Jenkins, streamlining deployments, and improving team velocity. Show less
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Maryland Institute College of Art
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United States
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Higher Education
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400 - 500 Employee
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Information Systems Engineer
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Mar 2007 - Apr 2010
Baltimore, Maryland Area MICA is the oldest art school in America, and considered one of the best in the nation. * Technical Lead on the MICA website redesign project. * Researched our site redesign with IA/UX/UI industry leaders Adaptive Path and Happy Cog. * Implemented the Ingeniux CMS, which relies on XML and XSLT for data storage, and presentation. * Maintained IIS, Apache, MySQL and MS SQL servers. * Supported the institutional PeopleSoft portal providing self services for students, staff and… Show more MICA is the oldest art school in America, and considered one of the best in the nation. * Technical Lead on the MICA website redesign project. * Researched our site redesign with IA/UX/UI industry leaders Adaptive Path and Happy Cog. * Implemented the Ingeniux CMS, which relies on XML and XSLT for data storage, and presentation. * Maintained IIS, Apache, MySQL and MS SQL servers. * Supported the institutional PeopleSoft portal providing self services for students, staff and faculty. * Automated Active Directory account creation for our campus based on PeopleSoft user data using MIIS and vb.NET. * Built interactive web applications with jQuery and ColdFusion. * Setup and maintain PHP applications for Staff and Faculty, including MediaWiki, Drupal, WordPress, and phpQuestionaire. Show less
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Application Developer
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Dec 2004 - Mar 2007
Projector 7/Creative Capitalism is a graphic design firm, a record label, and a concept. * Implemented Designs with Content Management Systems (Drupal and Subdreamer) * Implemented Designs with eCommerce Systems (osCommerce and CFWebStore)
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Application Developer
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2006 - 2007
idfive takes on clients and missions they care about. They achieve lead generation, awareness and retention goals through one-of-a-kind award-winning media strategies, integrated advertising, website design/development, social media and mobile web. * Built web applications, and brochure sites in ColdFusion and PHP.
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Infonic
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United Kingdom
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Software Development
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1 - 100 Employee
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Interface Developer
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2006 - 2007
Largo, Maryland Simplexity is the leading online seller of wireless services and devices in America. They sell phones through affiliate programs with 40+ companies like Best Buy, Amazon.com, and AOL. * Upgraded our custom asp/vb/c# .NET eCommerce application to use standards compliant CSS * Branded over 40 affiliate micro-sites for our application with branding that matched the affiliate's website with CSS and XSLT to provide a seamless user experience while shopping. * Identified and implemented… Show more Simplexity is the leading online seller of wireless services and devices in America. They sell phones through affiliate programs with 40+ companies like Best Buy, Amazon.com, and AOL. * Upgraded our custom asp/vb/c# .NET eCommerce application to use standards compliant CSS * Branded over 40 affiliate micro-sites for our application with branding that matched the affiliate's website with CSS and XSLT to provide a seamless user experience while shopping. * Identified and implemented User Interface improvements based on statistical usage. Show less
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Application Developer
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Jun 2004 - Dec 2005
Baltimore, Maryland Area ACP Creative was a small design firm that specialized in websites for the financial services sector and higher education. Some clients included the Deutsch Bank, and Johns Hopkins University. * Built custom Content Management Systems in ColdFusion. * Collaborated with graphic designers to create high quality web interfaces. * Worked on intranet websites for financial institutions.
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Application Developer
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2003 - 2005
Baltimore, Maryland Area Smartank Group was a small technical consulting firm that specialized in User Interface, User Experience, Interaction Design, and Application Development. * Built a wiki-style data store for Maryland Arts Council field workers to record cultural phenomenon throughout the state. * Met with clients, gathered requirements and authored proposals. * Worked on various websites for Meyer Jabara Hotels.
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Application Developer
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2001 - 2002
Developed components for customers websites. Carton-Donofrio is a full service ad agency located in downtown Baltimore.
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Education
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Goucher College
Bachelor of Arts, Computer Science -
Newton North Highschool