Ben Dechrai
Staff Developer Advocate
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolBen Dechrai is a seasoned technologist and Staff Developer Advocate based in Melbourne with 11 years of professional experience and over 18 years of hands-on software engineering and leadership across startups, agencies, and enterprise projects. He blends developer-first technical depth—solutions architecture, security, and API design—with strong community building and public speaking, having keynoteed international conferences and co-founded events like BuzzConf and Baloney Events. Ben has repeatedly moved projects from concept to production, saving teams months through pragmatic architecture and developer productivity improvements (an example being an 18 person-months estimate saved on a mobile API project). Equally comfortable in pre-sales and CTO-for-hire engagements, he pairs strategic business analysis with a practical engineer’s mindset to deliver measurable outcomes. Colleagues know him for creating playful, low-pressure spaces to practice technical communication as well as for his knack for smoothing developer workflows and stabilizing delivery environments.
11 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Software Engineering, Programming, Design, Software Engineering, Programming, Design at University of Hull
French, German, English
Github Skills (48)
noise10
surveillance9
retention7
bitly7
data-storage6
faunadb6
tinyurl6
hosting5
scene5
region5
shorturl5
url-shortener5
javascript4
json4
perl-script4
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
bendechrai/squawk-search
Jun 2016 - Apr 2021
Contributions:2 pushes, 3 branches in 4 years 11 months
bendechrai/squawk
Oct 2015 - Apr 2021
Noise-as-a-service that attacks the wholesale surveillance of Australian citizens under the data retention program.
Contributions:42 commits, 16 PRs, 34 pushes in 5 years 6 months
citizenssurveillancedata-retentionas-a-serviceaustralian
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