Summary
Ben Baran is a hands-on technology leader and lead software engineer with nine years of focused experience building cloud-native .NET systems, modern front-ends in Angular, and business intelligence platforms for healthcare and mission-driven organizations. He founded CarePortfolio to build a cloud-based EHR and an widely used open-source Azure AD authentication npm library, demonstrating both product and engineering chops. Ben has a track record of launching BI functions, architecting data warehouses and Power BI analytics, and modernizing monoliths into AWS serverless microservices. His background spans operational IT leadership—managing budgets, teams and large-scale infrastructure—through to systems architecture and full-stack delivery. Based in Chicago, he combines MS-level computer science training with practical domain knowledge of hospice and elder-care workflows, enabling faster, compliant solutions for regulated environments. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic builder who translates executive strategy into measurable technical outcomes.
9 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
M.S. Computer Science, M.S. Computer Science at University of Chicago