DATA FOR THE PEOPLE
DATA FOR THE PEOPLE

Ben Carneiro is a web developer.

Ben makes free, public tools for government data

ben@roadway.report

512 632 2715

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  • Web Application Development
  • Database Architecture
  • Data Modeling
  • Data Engineering
  • Systems Administration (Linux)
  • Deployment / Testing
  • Information Security
  • Programming Languages
    • Python
    • Go
    • Java
    • Javascript / CSS / HTML
  • Frameworks
    • Django
    • django-ninja
    • GeoDjango
    • Flask
    • FastAPI
    • ReactJS
    • HTMX
  • Databases
    • PostGIS
    • MySQL
    • PostgreSQL
    • Sqlite
    • T-SQL
    • Snowflake
    • Databricks
  • GIS Tech
    • PostGIS, GeoDjango, GeoPandas, shapely, ArcGIS, QGIS, Maplibre, Mabox, tippecanoe, pmtiles, Leaflet, Folium
  • Data & Analytics
    • Pandas, matplotlib, Metabase, Tableau, ArcGIS, QGIS, sklearn, recharts, chartJS, google sheets, pyspark, apache spark, databricks, dbt, kafka, kinesis
WORK
WORK

roadway.report

roadway.report

"The Nationwide Vision-Zero Map"

Chicago
NYC
Los Angeles
Miami
A chart of pedestrian fatalities (They're going up)
A Chart of bicycle fatalities (they're going up)
THe whole death map
Pedestrian fatalities are up up up!

censusmaps.org

censusmaps.org

Make Demographic Maps of Any US City


Los Angeles
Chicago
Phoenix
Phoenix
Phoenix
Los Angeles
Los Angeles
Phoenix

transit.observer

transit.observer

Search public transit data for any agency in the USA


King County Pandemic Recovery
LIRR Pandemic Recovery
Cost per Passenger Mile Traveled (Austin)
Fare Recovery Ratio (Austin)
Passengers per hour of vehicle service
Passengers per hour of vehicle service
Passengers per hour of vehicle service
cost per passenger mile traveled
EXPERIENCE EXPERIENCE

2025

Full-Stack Bartender

  • Searching for the right place to pursue a meaningful career
  • Willing to relocate
  • Bonus points for Public Sector / Public Interest Jobs
  • Bonus points for work with GIS, Web Development, or Databases

2024

Engineer, Founder @ roadway.report

Hacked all summer to release roadway.report, The Nationwide Vision-Zero Map.

  • Interactive map of all US traffic deaths in the 21st century
  • Scaled site to serve 10,000,000+ requests to 100,000+ unique users and counting
  • Public API for developers to spin up death maps for anywhere in the USA
  • Built ontop of a PostGIS database using Python, Django

2024

Engineer, Founder @ censusmaps.org

  • Make free demographic maps from US Census data.
  • Create beautiful 3D renders in just a few clicks, or export GeoJSON layers to incorporate in your custom maps
  • Access any information tracked by the US Census, for any city in the US
  • Built ontop of a PostGIS database using Python, Django, HTMX, DeckGL, JavaScript

2024

Tour Guide @ Hippie City Bike Tours

I started running bike tours out of my apartment. I also built the website. Book a tour today at hippie.city

2023

Data Engineer (Contract) @ WizeHire

  • Architected a financial data warehouse
  • Built ETL pipelines from Stripe, Salesforce, Pandadoc, other internal sources
  • Created custom dashboards for critical operational insights, including Churn, CAC, MRR, ARR, LTV, and more
  • Avoided cloud-based computing expenses by using free technology
  • Built on MySQL database using Metabase, Bash, Python, Django, and Linux

2023

Engineer, Founder @ transit.observer

  • Analyze the performance of any public transit in the USA
  • Quickly reference important metrics such as cost-per-passenger, cost-per-passenger-mile-traveled
  • This tool was built by reverse engineering the National Transit Database from certain public data repositories
  • Built on a MySQL Database, using Python, Django, ReactJS, Javascript/HTML/CSS

2021-2022

Intern -> Software Engineer @ Wizehire

  • Wrote and debugged full-stack code for a Django/React application
  • Automated lead generation, lead conversions, and commission processes
  • Performed critical data recovery, migrations, and audits
  • Built ETL pipelines to support KPI dashboards, helped analysts debug complex SQL

2020

Auditing the Bus

  • Learned to code by auditing CapMetro's finance and performance
  • Initial experience with data processing and data visualization in python

2020

Pandemic

"Wow I don't want to be a waiter!"

2016-2020

Bullshit Jobs

  • I served something in the neighborhood of half a million people
  • Yes, the dressing is on the side

2013-2016

Radio-Television-Film @ University of Texas

  • Digital Media Production
  • Focus on Audio and Post-Production
  • Dabbled in radio
  • I made a LOT of really weird art about clowns