Ben Dodd
Principal Engineer at Xero
Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
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Top SchoolBen Dodd is a Principal Engineer with 17 years' experience building product-focused engineering organisations and high-usage services, now driving architecture and delivery at Xero from Auckland. He has led product and infrastructure strategy at Vista Entertainment Solutions—rising from hands-on development and services automation to product director and principal product engineer—combining deep .NET and Ruby on Rails experience with pragmatic process improvement. Ben’s background includes founding a startup for receipt digitisation, designing large-volume web systems and automating release pipelines, which informs his emphasis on resilient, scalable platforms. He blends product ownership, agile leadership and technical mentoring to shrink cycle times and reduce operational toil. Colleagues would describe him as a systems-minded engineer who moves between code, process and product to ship measurable outcomes.
17 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science at University of OtagoMCP - Microsoft Certified Professional in VB .NET, MCP - Microsoft Certified Professional in VB .NET at Microsoft
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Github Skills (85)
rest9
swagger9
rest-api9
cdn9
parsing9
typescript9
shell8
js8
powershell8
angular8
linux8
javascript8
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windows8
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Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
silentdth/cucumber_gedit_gtk_syntax_highlight
Apr 2009 - Apr 2012
Contributions:7 commits in 3 years
geditcucumberhighlightingsyntax-highlightinggtksourceview
silentdth/HttpTwo
Aug 2022 - Aug 2022
A basic C# HTTP/2 client library
Contributions:8 pushes in 1 day
csharp
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