Ben Ashdown
Senior Software Engineer at Scout AI
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolBen Ashdown is a pragmatic engineering leader and founder with eight years of experience building infrastructure and developer-focused tools, currently serving as Co-Founder & CTO at ClaimKit in San Francisco. He cut his teeth in low-level C++ and data-center networking at Google, improving internal batch processing and fabric modeling, and has prior AWS and enterprise internship experience that rounds out his systems and cloud expertise. Ben focuses on making engineers' lives easier—translating complex technical problems into practical products that streamline developer workflows and unlock R&D value for customers. Comfortable both in hands-on systems work and early-stage startup chaos, he combines academic software engineering training from The University of Queensland with a track record of shipping production-grade infrastructure. An approachable collaborator, he makes time to chat and mentor, signaling a founder who values real-world impact and developer experience.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering - BE Software Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering - BE Software Engineering at The University of Queensland
EnglishProgramming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
bashd4/PillX-Backend
Aug 2020 - Oct 2020
Contributions:101 commits, 1 PR, 85 pushes in 2 months
bashd4/bashd4.github.io
Mar 2022 - Apr 2023
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 1 month
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