Summary
Ben Garside is a Senior Salesforce Engineer based in the Greater Oxford Area with a decade of experience designing, administering and developing Salesforce solutions across international organisations. He has progressed from systems and online support roles at Oxford University Press—managing multi-country deployments, integrations and bespoke .NET/SQL development—to senior engineering roles at Tripadvisor where he now shapes scalable Salesforce architecture. Comfortable with Apex, Visualforce, APIs and data migration, he combines hands-on coding with business analysis and change management for user communities spread across 15+ countries. Colleagues rely on him as a technical escalation point and stakeholder liaison who translates complex requirements into practical, auditable solutions. His background in history (1st Class BA) underpins a methodical, research-led approach to problem solving and documentation.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
1st Class BA (Hons), History, + dissertation award, 1st Class BA (Hons), History, + dissertation award at University of Portsmouth