Ben Crowhurst
Software Engineer at Bellrock Technology Ltd
Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolBen Crowhurst is a Glasgow-based software engineer with 12 years' experience building robust, production-grade systems across embedded devices, cloud-native SaaS, and low-level filesystems. He’s shipped C/C++ firmware and Linux integrations for STM32 and PX4, designed scalable Kubernetes/AWS architectures for drone orchestration, and worked on forensic-grade filesystem tooling and high-performance video capture systems. An entrepreneur at heart, he founded Corvusoft and has led engineering teams to commercialise research into market-ready products, introducing pragmatic practices like BDD/TDD, CI/CD and Kanban. He’s an active contributor to the C++ REST framework restbed, improving HTTP handling, tests and client keep-alive design—evidence of his attention to correctness and maintainability. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic architecture decisions that balance low-level performance with cloud-scale operability.
12 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc) Software Engineering, Bachelor of Science (BSc) Software Engineering at University of the West of ScotlandHND Software Engineering, HND Software Engineering at Glasgow Clyde College
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Github Skills (15)
asynchronous10
unit-testing10
http10
http-server10
c-language10
cprogramming-language10
restful-api10
async10
configurations6
user-interface6
windows-mobile6
sql6
compact-framework6
visual-studio6
database6
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
Corvusoft/restbed
Apr 2014 - Oct 2022
Corvusoft's Restbed framework brings asynchronous RESTful functionality to C++ applications.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 releases, 5 reviews, 812 commits in 8 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Ben made several contributions to the restbed framework, including adding an allow header for the default "not implemented" handler, removing unnecessary method invocations, and removing pointless operators in the source code. They also improved unit test coverage and quality, demonstrated by changes in test suites, and worked to address issues related to request handling, such as the incorrect calculation of response body length. Additionally, the user worked on the design and integration of HTTP client keep-alive connections.
asynchronouscpprestrestbedrestful
Corvusoft/network
May 2017 - Apr 2018
Contributions:42 commits, 36 pushes, 1 branch in 11 months
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