Ben Clifford
Director at CQX Limited
Berlin, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolBen Clifford is a Director-level software engineer based in Berlin with 20 years’ experience building distributed systems, functional-programming solutions, and robust build/operations infrastructure. He consults for universities and research groups, turning experimental code into maintainable, production-ready software and enabling cross-disciplinary collaboration. His background includes high-performance scientific computing on supercomputers, Haskell-based backend systems, and custom Shake/Docker build pipelines that bridge multiple languages and runtimes. Comfortable both mentoring researchers and shipping engineering deliverables, he blends deep mathematical training with practical systems experience. An enthusiast for programming languages and LEDs, he brings a rare combination of research-grade rigor and hands-on craftsmanship to complex, long-lived systems.
20 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
High Performance Computing, High Performance Computing at The University of EdinburghM.Sci (Hons), Mathematics, M.Sci (Hons), Mathematics at University of LondonMathematics, Mathematics at University of California, Los Angeles
Github Skills (6)
python10
documentation10
develop9
bash8
version-control7
git7
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
benclifford/acme-smuggler
Dec 2016 - Dec 2021
Contributions:16 commits, 15 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 1 month
LSSTDESC/DESC_DC2_imSim_Workflow
Aug 2018 - Mar 2019
Contributions:54 commits, 11 PRs, 19 pushes in 6 months
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