Ben Dixon
Chief Technology Officer at PlaySafe ID
United Kingdom
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Top SchoolBen Dixon is a seasoned technology leader and Chief Technology Officer with 11 years of hands-on experience building and operating petabyte-scale data platforms, primarily within the games industry. He led Jagex’s cloud transformation, architecting and deploying a full AWS + Snowflake data platform with Airflow orchestration, Kubernetes-based operations, and GitOps-driven workflows. Deeply experienced in real-time telemetry ingestion (Kinesis, Akka Streams), Terraform IaC, and complex migrations (Vertica/Hadoop), he combines systems-level engineering with pragmatic operational ownership. Ben’s background spans the full lifecycle from hardware provisioning to production-grade ETLs and multi-tenant deployments, and he has a long-standing appetite for solving data reliability and scaling challenges. Now based in the UK as CTO at PlaySafe ID, he brings both leadership and a developer’s DNA, informed by a passion for games that sharpens his product-focused engineering decisions. An early-career operator who grew into architecture and management, he’s known for turning messy legacy platforms into maintainable, automated systems.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc), Information Technology in Organisations, 2:1, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Information Technology in Organisations, 2:1 at University of SouthamptonA Levels, A Levels at Ralph Allen SchoolGithub contributions (2)
Richard-Swingler/uni-workz
Oct 2014 - Dec 2014
Contributions:10 commits in 1 month
HatScrubs/GameAccess
Nov 2015 - Nov 2015
Contributions:2 comments, 1 issue in 1 day
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