About

I’m Ben, a Platform and DevOps Engineer based in Brighton, where the sea is close enough that I’m on a paddleboard whenever the weather allows (and sometimes when it doesn’t).

I work on the infrastructure underneath software: the cloud systems, pipelines, and automation that let teams ship without things falling over. It’s behind-the-scenes work, but that’s what I enjoy about it. I like owning a problem from first principles through to something that actually runs in production.

I’ve worked across startups and regulated financial environments, getting stuck into everything from wrangling legacy infrastructure into something modern and maintainable, to building the internal tooling that means developers can get on with their work without raising a ticket for everything.

Although my focus these days is platform engineering, I’ve been writing code for a long time and it’s something I genuinely love. I’m comfortable dropping into a codebase, whether that’s Go, Rust, C#, or something else, and I think being an engineer who can actually code makes me a better platform engineer. I understand the problems on both sides of the fence.

When I’m not doing that professionally, I’m running a homelab at home, self-hosting services, tinkering with infrastructure for fun, and currently building an open-source fitness app for weightlifters who don’t want their training data locked behind a subscription. It’s the kind of project that exists because I wanted it to exist.

I’m a big music fan, I like to keep active, and I believe good infrastructure, like a good setlist, should be so well put together that nobody notices the effort that went into it. I’m open to new opportunities, remote or hybrid around London or Brighton. If you’re working on something interesting, get in touch.