Meet the A-Pop Team

John Engstrom is a public interest attorney with an extensive background in public benefits, human services, health care, and data analysis. John designed, implemented, and managed Alameda County’s SSI Advocacy Trust growing it to 70 benefits advocates. During his time at Alameda County, John also managed innovative projects, supervised the Decision Support Team, and managed Quality Improvement for Alameda County Behavioral Health Care Services.

Ben Giddins has 25 years of development and solution architecture practice in both his native Australia and adopted United States. An advocate of modern serverless cloud-based solutions, Ben is an expert in developing and integrating disparate data systems.

Ben is also a director of a non-profit urban canopy restoration project in his local community.