Ben Furfie
Senior PHP Engineer at PixelBeard
Birkenhead, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolBen Furfie is a Senior PHP Engineer and technical web development manager with over 20 years of hands-on experience and 11 years in senior roles, currently leading a distributed team of developers at PixelBeard. He specialises in Laravel and Statamic migrations, API-driven and content-heavy sites, and delivering secure, compliant marketing platforms across global organisations. Ben combines people management and roadmap ownership—prioritising delivery, mentoring engineers, and translating C-level strategy into actionable technical requirements. His background in journalism and editorial leadership gives him a rare ability to distill complex technical issues into clear business-facing communications. He has built hundreds of websites and scalable applications, including high-throughput competition systems and enterprise marketing infrastructures. Ben’s ideal role balances hands-off development management with active stewardship of team growth and stakeholder alignment.
11 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
BA Hons Media and Cultural Studies, BA Hons Media and Cultural Studies at Liverpool John Moores University
English, Spanish
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Github Skills (127)
cms10
composer10
laravel10
prestashop-module10
statamic10
api-rest10
content-management-system10
jamstack10
laravel-package10
plugin10
summernote10
php10
wordpress-plugin10
storyblok10
cockpit10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
benfurfie/benfurfie
Jul 2020 - Apr 2023
Contributions:7 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 9 months
benfurfie/statamic-svg
Nov 2018 - Oct 2019
Contributions:2 releases, 4 PRs, 4 pushes in 11 months
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