Ben Fossett
Software Engineer at Ookla
Woking, England, United Kingdom
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
Top SchoolBen Fossett is a software engineer with an MEng in Computer Science and nine years of professional experience, currently building software at Ookla after a data‑science focused stint at an airline-tech startup. He developed production-ready ML models (including XGBoost for no‑show prediction) and data pipelines in Python and PostgreSQL, and paired models with explainability using SHAP to make insights actionable for operators. Recently pivoting toward games, he completed a gaming design bootcamp and prototyped in Unreal Engine (Blueprints and some C++) and Blender, blending ML-informed product thinking with creative toolchains. Based in Woking, he brings a pragmatic mix of applied machine learning, reliable backend engineering, and a growing game development toolkit that helps him bridge analytical and interactive product domains.
9 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Fullbrook School and 6th FormLevel 3 Skills Bootcamp, Gaming Design, Level 3 Skills Bootcamp, Gaming Design at Digital Skills HQMaster of Engineering - MEng, Computer Science, First Class Honours, Master of Engineering - MEng, Computer Science, First Class Honours at University of Bristol
French, Spanish, English
Github Skills (7)
unreal6
large-scale5
physics5
scale4
multiplayer4
unreal-engine-44
game-development3
Github contributions (5)
BenFossett/IOTPlatform
Nov 2016 - Apr 2017
Contributions:26 PRs, 80 pushes, 15 branches in 5 months
BenFossett/404.-NAMENOTFOUND
Nov 2016 - Nov 2016
Contributions:4 pushes in 1 day
product-engineeringengineering
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.