Ben James
United Kingdom
Summary
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SeniorBen James is an Analytics Integration Developer with nine years' experience building reliable, maintainable systems for finance and media using functional languages like Haskell, F# and Scala. He currently integrates risk systems at Barclays Investment Bank and has a track record of shipping distributed data stores, RESTful APIs and AWS-based infrastructure across previous roles at Barclays Wealth, Which? and Guardian. A pragmatist about quality, he champions type-driven development, property-based testing and repeatable CI/CD pipelines to foster user confidence and operational resilience. He’s contributed to production-grade Scala libraries and infrastructure tools and brings hands-on expertise across C++, Python and cloud services. Trained as a physicist at UCL, he blends analytical rigor with practical engineering, and in his spare time explores game development with Defold—an interest that reflects his appetite for creative, low-level problem solving.
10 years of coding experience
Github Skills (8)
defold10
2d-game10
lua9
clojure8
game-development8
game-engine7
mobile6
steamworks2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
benjames-171/defold-games
Oct 2018 - May 2022
Collection of 2D games made with Defold
Contributions:42 commits, 44 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 7 months
2d-gamedefolddefold-game
benjames-171/word-worm
Jul 2023 - Jan 2025
Contributions:1 push in 1 year 6 months
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