Ben Fitzhardinge
Principal Technical Lead Minerals Australia Digital at BHP
Fremantle, Western Australia
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Top SchoolBen Fitzhardinge is a Principal Technical Lead and seasoned Python developer with 10+ years building cloud-native microservices and data platforms across AWS, Docker, CDKTF and CI/CD. He currently shapes technical direction for Minerals Australia Digital at BHP, advocating for developer productivity and creating reusable RACE systems that bridge site-to-screen operational needs. Ben combines hands-on engineering (Django, Flask, Lambda) with leadership in product and platform uplift—recently driving a platform rebuild that improved reliability and reduced operational overhead. A committed mentor and former lead for She Codes Australia, he pairs pragmatic architecture with culture change, having migrated teams from monoliths to serverless and introduced infrastructure-as-code. Based in Fremantle, he’s known for solving mid-project gaps and translating messy requirements into resilient, developer-friendly tooling.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Aquinas College, PerthBMultimedia internet programming, BMultimedia internet programming at Murdoch University
English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (164)
fastapi10
python10
json-schema10
command-line-interface10
swagger10
google-map10
pip10
serverless10
pydantic10
openapi10
flask10
zappa10
python-development10
async10
django10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
bendog/pythonwa
Jul 2020 - Jan 2026
Perth Django and Python Programmers
Contributions:11 releases, 5 reviews, 7 PRs in 5 years 7 months
djangopython
Miserlou/NoDB
Jul 2018 - Mar 2020
NoDB isn't a database.. but it sort of looks like one.
Contributions:3 releases, 39 commits, 13 PRs in 1 year 7 months
databasepythons3zappaserverless
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