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by dylnuge 810 days ago
I worked on the data warehouse for federal storage of Medicaid and CHIP data (US government-sponsored healthcare programs that cover ~25% of the population, especially people with low-income, for non-US folk).

It's not the flashiest or most glamorous project I've worked on, nor was it the most technically challenging, but I think far and away it's the most useful code I wrote by pretty much any measure of useful.

Alas, the company I was at that was doing that work moved away from it before we could finish everything we had planned to build because it wasn't profitable in the way that could justify keeping it alive once it had accomplished its goal of being a cool line item we could say we did in investor pitches.