Ben Hayward
Senior Full Stack Engineer at Jagex
England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolBen Hayward is a Senior Full Stack Engineer with nine years of experience building secure, scalable web and blockchain systems, currently contributing at Jagex. He moves fluidly between front-end frameworks (Angular, React) and back-end stacks (Node.js, PHP, MySQL, Cassandra, Redis), and has hands-on experience with Kubernetes, CI/CD, and observability tooling to resolve incidents fast. Ben has led E2E automation efforts that materially reduced regressions and directed bug triage to align fixes with business priorities. As a founder and director of CryptoDev Ltd and lead developer on multiple blockchain projects, he blends practical Web3 and smart contract expertise with security-oriented architecture and audits. A long-time FOSS advocate, he’s comfortable working remotely across distributed teams and frequently brings bleeding-edge integrations—such as Ethereum features and Hyperledger systems—into production.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BSc Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BSc Computer Science at Teesside University
English, javascript, node.js, angular js, html5, css3, sql, solidity, c#, clojure, bash, ada, jquery, fabric chaincode, java, pug, netlogo, php, codeigniter, chaincode, json, ajax, angular, react, typescript
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Github Skills (200)
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Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
bhayward93/Linus-rants-ZSH
Feb 2020 - Feb 2021
Picks a random Linus Torvalds quote to display every time you load your shell
Contributions:9 commits, 4 PRs, 9 pushes in 1 year
picksshelllinustorvalds
bhayward93/intellij-conf
Jul 2017 - May 2018
Contributions:45 pushes, 1 branch in 10 months
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