Summary
Ben Kloosterman is an architect and tech lead with 14 years of hands-on experience building high-performance, cloud-native platforms and rescuing troubled projects. Based in Sydney, he has led large distributed teams across Azure Service Fabric, Kubernetes, .NET Core and microservices to deliver reliable systems for industries from mining logistics to gambling and insurance. He has a track record of simplifying complex architectures—cutting service size and cost by around 90% at Kindred—while introducing modern primitives like Redis Streams and RedisDB to improve performance and maintainability. Ben excels at turning around failing vendor efforts and tight timelines, notably delivering a working greenfield explosives-truck control system after two prior vendors failed. He brings entrepreneurial instincts from founding an e-commerce startup and a pragmatic engineering background grounded in physics and computer science from Macquarie University. Although his GitHub is moving private, he signals an intent to publish curated extracts, reflecting a thoughtful balance of IP sensitivity and knowledge sharing.
14 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
Port Macquarie High School
BSC, Physics , Comp Science , History, BSC, Physics , Comp Science , History at Macquarie University