Ben Dennerley
Principal Software Engineer at Relion
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolBen Dennerley is a Principal Software Engineer with 11 years of experience designing and shipping cloud-native systems, observability tooling, and networking stacks across companies like Trend Micro, The OpenNMS Group, and now Relion. He combines deep hands-on expertise in Python, Java/Kotlin, Linux administration and CI/CD with leadership in mentoring, team enablement, and patent-minded research—recently focusing on LLM-driven AI enablement. Ben has led development of Azure FunctionApp-based microservices, TCP networking on Netty, and device-level Azure IoT solutions, showing a rare full-stack backend-to-edge proficiency. Known for translating research into practical proofs-of-concept and operational automation, he’s equally comfortable managing database migrations and building Ubuntu Core IoT devices. Based in Ottawa, his background in software design from Queen’s University and history of enabling stream-aligned teams make him a pragmatic technical leader who prioritizes scalable, maintainable systems.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Computing (Honors) with Professional Internship, Specialization in Software Design, Bachelor of Computing (Honors) with Professional Internship, Specialization in Software Design at Queen's University
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Github Skills (51)
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Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
BenD10/torque-it
May 2016 - May 2018
Contributions:6 pushes, 1 branch, 12 issues in 1 year 11 months
BenD10/auth-lambda
Apr 2019 - Nov 2019
Serverless authentication with DynamoDB and AWS Lambda
Contributions:1 PR, 3 pushes, 2 branches in 7 months
aws-dynamodbserverlessaws-lambdaauthenticationdynamodb
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