Ben Hawker
Principal Engineer at iBusiness
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolBen Hawker is a Principal Engineer based in London with 11 years of experience building scalable web and backend systems and leading cross-functional teams through product and commercial transitions. He combines hands-on engineering in Ruby and Go with CXO-level commercial acumen, having sold strategy consulting and long-term media partnerships across the UK and APAC. Ben has led migrations and integrations for lending platforms, designed extensible plugin-driven products, and driven measurable revenue via marketplace and partner APIs. His background as a founder and commercial director gives him a rare fluency in negotiating partnerships and translating business needs into simple, high-value technical solutions. He’s comfortable prototyping to gain stakeholder consensus and has repeatedly shipped systems that empower operations and partners rather than just automating internal workflows. Ben’s work blends pragmatic architecture, platform thinking, and a user-first commercial sensibility.
10 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Wellington CollegeBerkeleyX: CS169.2x Engineering Software as a Service, Part 2, BerkeleyX: CS169.2x Engineering Software as a Service, Part 2 at edXRuby & JavaScript Development, June - October 2015, Ruby & JavaScript Development, June - October 2015 at MakersBSc, Geographical Sciences, BSc, Geographical Sciences at University of Bristol
English, French
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (52)
listings9
rebuild9
explore9
twilio9
twitter8
instagram7
nodejs7
railtie7
fmi7
marketplace7
sinatra7
polling7
react7
voting7
rack6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
benhawker/rails_marketplace
Oct 2015 - May 2016
Contributions:206 commits, 1 PR, 161 pushes in 7 months
ruby-on-railsmarketplacerailssellerbuyer
benhawker/bm-editor
Sep 2016 - Oct 2016
Ruby Bitmap Editor - Terminal Application
Contributions:62 commits, 4 PRs, 45 pushes in 29 days
xtermbitmapconsolerubyhex-editor
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