Summary
Ben Blackmore is a Senior Cloud Software Engineer with 14 years of experience designing and delivering cloud-native platforms and customer-facing portals across energy, defence, and public sector organisations. He specialises in Azure-based architectures, microservices (.NET Core, C#), and modern front-ends (React/Next.js, TypeScript) with strong practises in CI/CD, observability and API management. At SSE he led large-scale digital transformations—rebuilding customer portals, integrating payments and designing GraphQL/REST APIs backed by Databricks, Cosmos and Redis—to support hundreds of thousands of accounts. He combines hands-on coding with solution design, deploying infrastructure as code (Bicep/ARM) and automating client SDK generation and performance testing to reduce costs and speed delivery. Based in Taunton, Ben is comfortable operating in regulated environments (PCI/DSS, MOD) and has a track record of turning complex data and identity requirements into pragmatic, production-grade systems.
14 years of coding experience
28 years of employment as a software developer
HNC Business Studies, HNC Business Studies at Somerset