Ben Msc
Data Architect
Leeds, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolBen Dalling is a Data Architect and founder with over 25 years of UNIX/Linux and infrastructure experience and 11 years of focused data and DevOps practice, currently architecting Kafka-driven ingestion and data lake pipelines. A Chartered Engineer and Chartered IT Professional, he blends hands-on implementation (Python, Kafka, Kubernetes, Terraform, Airflow) with delivery discipline as a certified Scrum Master, ITIL Expert and PRINCE2 Practitioner. Since going freelance in 1994 he has built a referral-driven consultancy, Cloud Based DQ, delivering cost-saving platform migrations and ETL automation for clients across government, media and enterprise. His career includes large-scale reliability and migration projects that materially reduced cloud spend and anonymised datasets at scale, showing an uncommon mix of systems-level depth and data engineering. Based in Leeds, he pairs formal academic credentials (MSc IT, Diploma Software Engineering) with pragmatic proof-of-concept development and repeated contract renewals. Outside work he co-owns CBDQ-io and enjoys reading and time with his wife, reflecting a steady, client-focused professional rhythm.
11 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree Information Technology, Master’s Degree Information Technology at University of LiverpoolDiploma Software Engineering, Diploma Software Engineering at Edinburgh Napier University
English, French, German
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (90)
testing10
mapreduce10
dsc10
ubuntu10
rhel10
ansible-role10
nosql10
puppet10
debian10
tripleo10
ansible10
cassandra10
datastax10
grype10
amazon-web-services10
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
cbdq-io/a-fake-rotor-true
Jul 2024 - Dec 2024
A configurable router for Kafka messages.
Contributions:99 PRs, 93 pushes, 106 branches in 4 months
cbdq-io/kc-connectors
Nov 2024 - Jul 2026
A Kafka Connect Sink Connecter for Azure Service Bus.
Contributions:1 review, 189 PRs, 200 pushes in 1 year 8 months
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