Summary
Ben Daley is a Principal Front-end Software Developer based in Melbourne with 11 years of professional experience building and modernising high-traffic web applications. He blends hands-on front-end expertise with technical leadership, having driven major performance, security and CI/CD uplifts that cut page load times, reduced open security updates to near zero, and dramatically lowered change failure rates. Comfortable across the stack, Ben has led cross-functional teams at SEEK, Qantas and REA Group to simplify complex analytics, enable component reuse, and improve maintainability at scale. He’s particularly effective at translating product goals into developer tooling and process improvements that measurably raise team velocity and reliability. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic mentor and decision-maker who pairs strong communication with a knack for spotting optimisations others miss.
11 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Certificate of Computer Graphics and Design Print Design Creative Suite, Certificate of Computer Graphics and Design Print Design Creative Suite at Auckland University of Technology
English Fine Art Design Printmaking Photography, English Fine Art Design Printmaking Photography at Waitakere College