Ben Bell
Senior Cloud Infrastructure Engineer at Next
Hinckley and Bosworth, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolBen Bell is a Senior Cloud Infrastructure Engineer with a decade of experience designing and running resilient cloud platforms, primarily on Azure and Google Cloud, for a major FTSE100 retailer. He progressed from hands-on server and Active Directory administration to leading cloud platform engineering at Next, blending deep Microsoft-stack expertise (AD, SCCM, IIS, SQL) with modern cloud-native practices. Comfortable scripting and building tooling in PowerShell, Python and web stacks, he also runs freelance web projects and has contributed backend improvements to open-source tooling around data parsing and integrations. Known for a pragmatic focus on business continuity and automation, he balances operational rigor with incremental innovation to support 24/7 critical services. Based in Hinckley and Bosworth, he brings both enterprise-scale systems experience and a developer’s curiosity — “Don’t Panic” is his GitHub slogan for a reason.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Systems Networking and Telecommunications, Computer Systems Networking and Telecommunications at University of Derby
English, German
Github Skills (10)
python10
regex9
api8
javascript8
apim8
data-analysis8
api-design8
data-visualizations7
data-visualisation7
data-visualization7
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
yihong0618/running_page
Oct 2020 - Dec 2022
Make your own running home page
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:95 reviews, 59 commits, 38 PRs in 2 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Ben primarily focused on enhancing the backend functionality of the "running_page" project. Their contributions involved modifying Python scripts, particularly related to track merging and Codoon integration, including features like refresh token implementation and Codoon sign. They also made changes to regex matching in Javascript files for location parsing, indicating an effort to improve data extraction and processing capabilities. Furthermore, they formatted code with black and performed library removals.
adidasdata-analysismapboxgarminnike
freedream520/RFID-Buliding-locating-system
Jan 2016 - Jun 2016
Contributions:15 commits in 5 months
rfid
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