Ben Cawkwell
Senior Developer at Skalar AS
Oslo, Norway
Summary
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Top SchoolBen Cawkwell is a Senior Developer based in Oslo with nine years of professional software experience and a background in interaction design. He champions test-driven development, SOLID principles and DRY code while driving continuous delivery and agile practices across teams. As a hands-on technical lead and architect he has led API and integrations efforts, delivered backend services that enabled mobile products, and reduced technical debt through pragmatic modernization. Colleagues know him for setting high coding standards, mentoring teams to adopt automation, and translating product strategy into clear architectural direction. His early experience in web performance and system stability at PhotoBox, combined with a design-first education, gives him a rare blend of usability sensitivity and backend engineering rigor. He consistently pairs attention to detail with visionary leadership to turn complex requirements into maintainable, testable systems.
9 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
BA (Hons), Interaction Design, BA (Hons), Interaction Design at Ravensbourne University LondonUKUUG Intermediate Perl and Advanced Perl Techniques
English
Github Skills (21)
django9
sentry9
crash-reports8
python8
apm8
monitoring8
devops8
monitor8
performance-monitoring7
error-logging7
lambda5
aws5
dynamodb5
cqrs4
js3
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
Skalar/soflow
Apr 2017 - Dec 2019
Easily run distributed workflows with AWS Simple Workflow Service and Lambda
Contributions:18 commits, 6 PRs, 7 pushes in 2 years 7 months
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gramo-org/delayed_job_web
May 2023 - May 2023
Contributions:1 push in 1 day
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