Ben Barnett
Software Engineer at Geordie AI
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolBen Barnett is a pragmatic software engineer and tech lead with over 15 years of hands-on experience and two decades of industry involvement delivering web platforms for agencies, startups, large organisations and government. He excels at turning ambiguity into clear, actionable goals and guiding cross-functional teams to build elegant, maintainable solutions with a bias for simplicity and reliability. His recent work spans developer-facing experiences and security-aware AI platforms, having led architecture and mentoring at Snyk and now building agent-native tooling at Geordie AI. Comfortable shipping across the full stack, Ben combines strong front-end craftsmanship with platform-level thinking and an SRE mindset that keeps thousands of engineers productive. Outside work he brings creative perspective from a background in audio engineering and music, which often informs his collaborative, empathetic leadership style.
16 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Audio Engineering, Audio Engineering at SAE Institute North America
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (110)
origami10
css-transitions10
webkit10
vulnerabilities9
monorepo9
clientside9
ruby9
routes9
hikvision9
sms-messages9
snyk9
bootstrapping9
build-server9
security8
frontend8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
benbarnett/jquery-animate-enhanced
Sep 2010 - Aug 2019
Extend $.animate() to detect CSS transitions for Webkit, Mozilla, IE>=10 and Opera and convert animations automatically.
Contributions:1 release, 163 commits, 3 PRs in 9 years
css-transitionswebkit
benbarnett/yarn-2-goof
Jan 2024 - Jan 2025
Contributions:2 reviews, 53 PRs, 12 pushes in 11 months
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