Hello there. I’m Ben Chatelain and this is my reflog. You’ll find me as @phatblat on all the things.

Apple Wallet Pass

If you bumped into me at a conference or meetup and are looking for my contact info, tap or click the button below on an Apple device to install my digital business card.

Add to Apple Wallet

If you are interested in making your own, grab the source of this pass from my phatblat.pass repo.

Work

I work for Kaiser Permanente in the Mobility Center of Excellence. My team maintains a suite of reusable libraries that are used in many internal and external iOS and Android apps. We provide an internal DevOps solution called the Mobile Delivery Pipeline, which includes a custom Gradle plugin (100% Kotlin), a Jenkins Shared Library, and tailored macOS VM image. I also consult with various development teams across our company on mobile app architecture, build and development issues.

Work Projects

  • Mobile Development Kit (MDK)
    • suite of 20+ iOS and 10+ Android inner-source libraries
    • used by dozens of apps for consumers (public app stores), clinicians and workforce (internal app store)
    • e.g. authentication, security, analytics, environment config, test users
  • Mobile Delivery Pipeline
    • continuous deployment for iOS and Android apps and libraries across Kaiser Permanente
    • Jenkins Pipeline Shared library (Groovy) for a simple Jenkinsfile DSL
    • custom Gradle plugin exposing standard tasks, simplifying configuration and orchestrating the Android Gradle Plugin and Xcode
    • macOS virtual machines configured using a recipe of scripts
    • docs, samples, support and many presentations involving emoji, costumes and props
  • Kaiser Permanente app
    • iOS & Android
    • our “flagship” app used by millions of our members
  • Every Body Walk!
    • iOS & Android
    • our first Apple Watch app
    • retired in 2017
  • Firefly
    • iPad app for nurses and doctors to locate staff and equipment located throughout an ER
    • used ultrasonic and RFID tags to track people and things, respectively

Personal Projects

I’m a big (phat?) open source contributor and everything I can share is in a public repo on GitHub. There are a lot of dead projects, but here are some of the more interesting ones.

Open Source

I’m a core contributor on some projects you may have heard of.

Blog

This blog is built using Jekyll with the help of a handful of plugins. If you find typos or dead links, please open an issue or, better yet, just use the GitHub web editor to fix it send me a PR.

Note that the source of this blog is in a different repo than the generated static content.