Benjamin Walford

Benjamin Walford has a diverse work experience in the field of software engineering and web development. Benjamin is currently working at Rachio as a Senior Software Engineer since December 2020. Before that, they worked at Garmin as a Technical Lead Software Engineer from September 2019 to November 2020. Prior to Garmin, they were associated with FitPay. At FitPay, they held multiple roles including Lead Platform Architect from April 2019 to September 2019 and Software Engineer from March 2015 to April 2019. Benjamin also has experience working as a Web Developer during their self-employed period from 2013 to 2014, where they built custom WordPress websites for clients and worked on back-end and front-end rails development for a local student-run Boulder startup. Their technical skills encompass various programming languages like Java, JavaScript, Python, Kotlin, and Ruby, as well as technologies such as Spring, Angular, Axon, Docker, Postgres, Puppet, AWS, Git, CSS, HTML, and jQuery. Benjamin has expertise in developing and maintaining distributed microservice platforms utilizing RESTful APIs, Java 8, Spring Boot, Spring Webflux, Maven, Axon Framework, Postgresql, Hystrix, and RabbitMQ. Benjamin has also worked closely with third-party development teams for integrating third-party services into the platform.

Benjamin Walford's education history is as follows. From 2014 to 2015, they attended Galvanize - Boulder, West Pearl, where they completed a Ruby on Rails Full-Stack Immersive program. Prior to that, from 2009 to 2013, they pursued a Bachelor's degree in Philosophy at the University of Colorado Boulder.