Ben Kersten
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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Top SchoolBen Kersten is a seasoned software engineer with 14 years of experience delivering cross-platform systems, cloud services, and performance-critical native code across companies from Google and Atlassian to startups. He blends deep hands-on expertise in Python, C++, C#, AWS and networking with a strong focus on solution architecture, DevOps, AppSec and performance-driven design. Ben has led teams building hardware-accelerated media pipelines, distributed IoT engines, and platform integrations, and he prioritises mentoring and tooling to turn teams into high performers. Comfortable in both product and systems domains, he repeatedly drives reliable, repeatable delivery through automation of testing and deployment pipelines. Based in Melbourne, he continually adopts new techniques and invests in people to deliver lasting solutions within targeted timeframes.
15 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Applied Science, Computer Science, Applied Science, Computer Science at RMIT UniversityMultimedia Computing, Information Technology, Multimedia, Multimedia Computing, Information Technology, Multimedia at Monash University
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (28)
boto7
tfs7
constants6
socket6
lua6
luabind6
windows6
linux6
asynchronous6
credential-storage6
visual-studio5
aws5
authentication5
multi-factor-authentication5
visual-studio-code4
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
bkersten/bkersten.github.io
Nov 2015 - Dec 2024
Contributions:22 pushes, 1 branch in 9 years 2 months
bkersten/pile-of-shame
Feb 2019 - Nov 2019
Browser extension to archive old tabs to a bookmark folder
Contributions:2 PRs, 5 pushes in 8 months
browser-extensionfirefoxjavascript
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