Ben Jackson
CTO at Prosper
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolBen Jackson is a seasoned CTO and hands-on software engineer with 15+ years building and scaling product teams and cloud-native platforms across startups and large organisations. He repeatedly turns early-stage ideas into robust, iteratable products by combining Lean Startup, Continuous Delivery, TDD/BDD and strong security practices (ISO 27001) while hiring and coaching cross-functional teams. His background spans Yahoo! R&D to multiple successful CTO roles and agency engagements where he led complex, regulated projects such as an international inter-bank RFQ trading platform and secure virtual-card payment systems. Technically fluent across Ruby, Node, React, Kubernetes and AWS Lambda, he also contributes to open-source efforts in the Neo4j/Ruby ecosystem. Ben is as comfortable defining roadmaps and budgets as he is writing architecture and test suites, and he has a track record of embedding infrastructure-as-code and automated CI/CD to drive rapid experimentation. Based in London, he blends startup grit with enterprise-grade process and a knack for turning messy legacy stacks into scalable, testable systems.
15 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
BSC Hons. Computer Science computing computer law databases software development software analysis distance learning, BSC Hons. Computer Science computing computer law databases software development software analysis distance learning at University of Portsmouth
Github Skills (10)
ruby10
neo4j10
orm10
testing10
ruby-rails9
graph-database9
activemodel9
validation9
validations9
rails9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
neo4jrb/activegraph
Oct 2010 - May 2011
An active model wrapper for the Neo4j Graph Database for Ruby.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:55 commits in 7 months
Contributions summary:Ben primarily contributed to the `activegraph` repository by adding new specifications for covering models. These included specs for model validation, and other features. They made code changes across multiple files, including the addition of model and relationship property functionality. Moreover, the user worked on rule inheritance and added various tests for Neo4j Rails integration.
neo4j-graphrubyneo4j-graph-databasedatabaserailtie
benjackson/world_bank_loans
Feb 2011 - Mar 2011
Contributions:167 commits in 1 month
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