Ben Jackson
Platform Lead
Newcastle upon Tyne, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolBen Jackson is a Platform Lead with a decade of experience building scalable, highly available AWS-first solutions using Terraform and CI/CD practices. He designs and operates cloud-native platforms spanning ECS, Lambda, SQS, DynamoDB and more, and codifies infrastructure and delivery pipelines with tools like TeamCity and CodePipeline. Comfortable across the stack, he ships microservices and web apps using C#, PHP, TypeScript/Node, React and Vue while applying C4 design and clear documentation to keep systems auditable. A meticulous communicator and hands-on leader, he has progressed from web developer to platform lead at major consultancies and operators, bringing pragmatic architecture to cross-functional teams. He is committed to continuous learning (currently pursuing advanced computing qualifications) and quietly distinguishes himself by blending developer ergonomics with production-grade reliability.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
PGCert Computing, PGCert Computing at The Open UniversityMaster of Science - MS Computer Science, Master of Science - MS Computer Science at University of Sunderland
English
Github Skills (43)
skeleton10
javascript9
open-source9
boilerplate9
lumen8
laravel8
near8
solidity7
blockchain7
php7
salesforce7
protocols7
rest-api6
react6
slack6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
terrachest/chest
Dec 2022 - Dec 2022
Contributions:40 commits, 4 PRs, 40 pushes in 8 days
benjacksondev/socialshare
May 2017 - Dec 2017
Contributions:18 releases, 47 pushes, 3 branches in 6 months
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