Summary
Ben Godfrey is an engineering manager with 15 years of experience building and scaling teams and platforms across startups, scale-ups and Meta in London. He has a strong track record leading large transactional systems and SOA platforms, evolving delivery practices (TDD/BDD, DevOps, continuous delivery) and growing engineering organizations from small teams to hundreds. At Wonga he combined technical ownership with product-led experiments and regulatory-driven quality improvements, and at Meta has continued to run high-impact engineering teams. Ben blends hands-on architecture and frontend/backend experience with hiring, coaching and organisational design, and is known for turning experimental prototypes into production services. He often brings lean and Kanban practices into engineering culture to accelerate validated learning while maintaining reliability.
15 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
BSc Computer Science, BSc Computer Science at University of East Anglia