Ben Dubuisson
Experience Engineering Practice Lead at Meridian Energy
Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand
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Top SchoolBen Dubuisson is an experienced engineering leader with 11+ years building server-side systems and guiding teams across product and platform roles in New Zealand. Currently Experience Engineering Practice Lead at Meridian Energy, he has a strong background in PHP/Laravel, cloud architecture (AWS Certified Solutions Architect) and shaping coding best practices from hands-on development to tech leadership. He has launched consumer-facing products like the Tempo app and led server-side practices through several agency transformations (Heyday → Wunderman Thompson → AKQA). Known for blending pragmatic architecture with developer coaching, he prioritises code quality, consistency and reliable cloud operations. Outside the corporate ladder he started and ran small consultancies early in his career, which gives him an entrepreneurial, customer-focused lens on engineering decisions.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Diploma in IS & T Level 6, IT, Diploma in IS & T Level 6, IT at Open PolytechnicWeb Programming Certificate, Web programming, Web Programming Certificate, Web programming at O'Reilly School of Technology
German, French, flemish, English
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Github Skills (115)
silverstripe10
rows10
inlining10
dataobjects10
error-handling10
dataobject10
whoops9
menu9
logger9
webservice9
php9
logging9
aws-codedeploy9
serverless-plugin8
api8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
WPP-Public/akqa-nz-silverstripe-redirects
Jul 2017 - May 2021
Provides easy redirects management in SilverStripe
Contributions:6 releases, 4 commits, 16 pushes in 3 years 10 months
silverstripe
WPP-Public/akqa-nz-silverstripe-gridfieldversionedorderablerows
Feb 2015 - Jan 2019
Allows Versioned Orderable Rows In GridField
Contributions:2 releases, 2 commits, 2 pushes in 3 years 11 months
orderableversionedgridfieldrows
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