Summary
Ben Lewis is a Head of Integrations and seasoned software leader with 11 years of experience building web and backend systems across startups, defense, and biotech. He brings deep hands-on expertise in Java, Kotlin, TypeScript, Angular and Python, and has led teams and architectures at the Israeli Air Force, Engageli and Hirundo while co-founding a tech nonprofit supporting developers. Comfortable bridging product, DevOps and engineering, he has been a go-to developer for simulation, optimisation and ecommerce platforms and has a track record of shipping full-stack solutions from Ruby on Rails to Spring Boot and GraphQL. Trained as an aerospace engineer, Ben combines analytical rigor with entrepreneurial grit honed running a web-development business and consulting for genome-tech companies. He lives in Israel, speaks evolving Hebrew, and often applies a cross-disciplinary perspective—melding aerospace-style systems thinking with practical software delivery.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (BEng), Aerospace Engineering, 2:1, Bachelor of Engineering (BEng), Aerospace Engineering, 2:1 at The University of Manchester
Mathematics, Further Mathematics and Physics, A*AB, Mathematics, Further Mathematics and Physics, A*AB at University College School
English, Hebrew