Ben Bennett
Lead Technologist at Government Digital Service
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolBen Bennett is a Lead Technologist with 11 years of engineering experience designing, building and deploying cloud-native microservices, particularly in Go. He has driven developer tooling and provider ecosystems at HashiCorp and reshaped core APIs and auth services while migrating stacks from PHP to Go at scale. Skilled at translating business requirements into test-driven technical solutions, he pairs strong project delivery and architecture roadmapping with mentoring and cross-team coordination. An outstanding communicator, he produces clear documentation and RFCs and makes complex systems accessible to both specialists and non-specialists. Ben couples technical craft with a deep empathy ethic and a commitment to leveraging technology for environmental benefit—an uncommon blend informed by a PhD background in neuroanatomy. Based in London, he brings hands-on delivery, open collaboration with OSS communities, and a consistent focus on quality to public- and private-sector projects.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Neuroanatomy, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Neuroanatomy at University of OxfordUniversity College London
Github Skills (49)
zip-archive10
terraform-cli10
multipart10
graph10
http10
authentication10
hashicorp10
grpc-go10
terraform10
terraform-provider10
private-key10
security10
http-server10
orchestrate10
sdk10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
hashicorp/terraform-provider-random
Apr 2022 - Jan 2023
Utility provider that supports the use of randomness within Terraform configurations.
Contributions:212 reviews, 348 commits, 180 PRs in 9 months
terraformterraform-provider
bendbennett/kotlin-api-demo
Dec 2024 - Jun 2025
Contributions:84 PRs, 100 pushes, 1 branch in 6 months
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