Ben Chidgey
Full Stack Engineer at WhiskyInvestDirect
St Albans, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolBen Chidgey is a senior full-stack software engineer with 13 years of hands-on experience building resilient, user-focused web products across public sector and commercial organisations. He combines deep client-side expertise in JavaScript, React and progressive enhancement with robust server-side skills in Node.js, Next.js, Lambda, REST and GraphQL, and practical platform knowledge of CI/CD, Kubernetes and GCP/AWS. Ben has repeatedly delivered frontend micro‑services and platform tooling at scale—from HMRC and DEFRA to Wayfair and Pret—often acting as the sole engineer or technical lead within small, disciplined teams. He prefers well-documented, test-driven code and is experienced running chaos experiments, incident exercises and observability roll-outs to improve reliability and SRE practices. A practical architect and mentor, he translates complex business and user requirements into modular, accessible interfaces and developer-friendly component libraries. Based in St Albans, he’s passionate about autonomous teams that build elegant products which make complex tasks simple for users.
13 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
English literature A,
English Language A,
Geography A,
Science AA,
Business Studies B,
Mathematics B,
History C,
Craft, Design & Technology D., English literature A,
English Language A,
Geography A,
Science AA,
Business Studies B,
Mathematics B,
History C,
Craft, Design & Technology D. at Gosford Hill School, Kidlington, OxfordBA Hons, Software Systems for the Arts and Media, BA Hons, Software Systems for the Arts and Media at University of Hertfordshire
Github Skills (132)
http10
backend10
guardian10
datahub10
rendering10
hapi10
application10
static-assets10
nodejs10
trust10
frontend10
jquery9
templating-engine9
form-wizard9
backend-template9
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
DEFRA/cdp-portal-tests
Dec 2023 - Dec 2024
Git repository for service cdp-portal-tests
Contributions:7 reviews, 91 PRs, 77 pushes in 1 year
cdpjourney
guardian/membership-frontend
Apr 2014 - Mar 2015
Guardian events and masterclasses
Contributions:1774 commits, 216 PRs, 214 pushes in 11 months
eventsproductionguardian
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