Ben Gilbert
FORWARD DEPLOYED ENGINEER @ COMMURE UCLA LINGUISTICS & COMPUTER SCIENCEbegilbert238@gmail.com
About Myself
Hi there, I'm Benjamin, a San Francisco native and software engineer. I build AI tools for hospitals and clinics at Commure. Feel free to check out a few of my projects - most are for the command-line, but I like building websites too.
I spend most of my free time coding. But when I'm not on the computer, I'm usually cycling or weightlifting.
Where I Work
I'm a Forward Deployed Engineer at Commure, a healthcare AI company. Two things keep me busy:
Autonomous medical coding - an AI agent that reads a doctor's note and figures out the visit's billing codes, then files them directly into the medical record. I co-built it with one other engineer, and it runs in production across a dozen care sites.
Epic Haiku integration - our AI scribe, embedded inside Epic's mobile app. I'm the sole engineer behind it, and it's rolling out at HCA Healthcare, the largest health system in the US.
Day to day that means a bit of everything: React frontends, Python backends, HL7/FHIR integrations, and getting on calls with hospital IT teams to figure out why authentication breaks.
What can I do?
Programming Languages
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Python
I taught myself Python when I was a teenager, and it's what I write most of my backend code in at work
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C/C++
My go-to when making smaller projects. I like knowing how the computer processes code behind-the-scenes
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Java
My favorite statically-typed language, and I've toyed around with Minecraft mods :)
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TypeScript
I'm not the biggest fan of vanilla JS, but this is a great alternative
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HTML/CSS/JS What this very website was built with - no website builder required 😉
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C# I use this while tutoring students who want to get into game development
Other
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React Makes website building much more palatable
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Django I used this for a while before learning React, it taught me a lot about web development
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PostgreSQL My default whenever I have to create something with databases, and I'm decent with SQL
Personal Projects
Crossword Generator
This is my most recent pet-project, which randomly generates mini crossword boards. Check it out!
2048 in C
A version of the game 2048 written entirely in C, runnable through the command line and playable with arrow-keys. Uses an interface library for C called ncurses.
Optimized Sudoku Solver
Also written in C, an optimized sudoku solver for the command-line using bitmasking.
Online CLI Chess
A multiplayer chess game in C++, designed to be run on the command-line. Using C's socket library, you can play with a friend on two different computers. The setup is contained in the Github's README.
Statistics Chatbot (WIP)
My university has an active Discord server, and I'm creating a website which collects detailed information about chatroom users: what times they’re active, who they talk most with, etc.
On the backend, all readable messages from the server are processed in batches, and relevant info is saved to a PostgreSQL database.
On the frontend, the data is neatly displayed on a webpage with help from Django's HTML templating and some Javascript.