Ben Cordero
Principal SRE at GoCardless
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolBen Cordero is a Principal SRE based in London with 12 years of experience building resilient, large-scale services across fintech and consumer platforms. He has progressed from test engineering at Cisco to senior engineering roles at Deliveroo and Snyk, and now leads SRE at GoCardless, blending deep systems reliability practices with pragmatic software delivery. Comfortable across infrastructure, observability, and incident response, he focuses on reducing toil and enabling developer velocity in high-throughput environments. His background in physics gives him a data-driven approach to problem solving and a knack for modeling complex failure modes. He also maintains a technical blog (https://blog.condi.me), signaling an ongoing commitment to sharing lessons learned and practical tooling. Colleagues describe him as a hands-on leader who pairs technical depth with clear operational priorities.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
St. Ignatius CollegeBSc Physics, BSc Physics at University of Warwick
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Github Skills (200)
parser10
python10
ssh10
linux10
tarball10
database-access10
vector10
musl10
solaris10
openzfs10
docker10
freebsd10
chroot10
monitoring9
gocardless9
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
bencord0/gentoo_patches
May 2014 - Aug 2021
Contributions:13 commits, 18 pushes, 2 branches in 7 years 3 months
bencord0/kopper
Jul 2018 - Jul 2023
Contributions:16 PRs, 5 pushes, 17 branches in 5 years 1 month
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