Ben Hopkins
Software Engineer at Lloyds Banking Group
Leeds, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolBen Hopkins is a Lead Software Engineer based in Leeds with seven years of experience progressing from sales roles into senior technical leadership within large financial and agile software firms. Currently at Lloyds Banking Group, he moved up from Senior Software Engineer to Lead, demonstrating rapid impact in a complex, regulated environment. His background combines a BSc in Computing & IT and Mathematics with hands-on engineering roles at Zenzero and Vigo Software, giving him a strong mix of product-facing delivery and technical depth. Ben’s prior sales experience informs a pragmatic, user-focused mindset when translating business needs into maintainable software. He excels at guiding cross-functional teams through delivery while keeping an eye on quality and scalability. Comfortable bridging technical and non-technical stakeholders, he’s the kind of engineer who blends analytical rigor with commercial awareness.
7 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
BSc Computing & IT and Mathematics, BSc Computing & IT and Mathematics at The Open UniversityBTEC Level 3 Extended Diploma IT (Software Development), BTEC Level 3 Extended Diploma IT (Software Development) at Walsall College
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Github Skills (48)
windows10
linux10
dotnet10
cross-platform10
asp-net-core10
intellisense10
asp-net10
dotnet-core10
csharp10
msbuild9
core-library9
code-signing9
tooling9
language-service9
client-library9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
benhopkinstech/aspnetcore
Feb 2025 - Mar 2025
ASP.NET Core is a cross-platform .NET framework for building modern cloud-based web applications on Windows, Mac, or Linux.
Contributions:37 pushes, 8 branches in 24 days
benhopkinstech/AspNetCore.Docs
Mar 2025 - Apr 2025
Documentation for ASP.NET Core
Contributions:13 pushes, 14 branches in 27 days
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