Ben Naylor
DevOps SRE Engineer at Techwerkers
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
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Top SchoolBen Naylor is a DevOps/SRE engineer with 11 years of experience building scalable, supportable, and robust web applications from Amsterdam. He blends hands-on site reliability work with developer experience improvements, most recently at Catawiki and now driving SRE at Instruqt. Comfortable across the stack, Ben has a background in Salesforce and front-end React/TypeScript work, and contributes to open-source projects such as Artichoke where he strengthened the test harness and cross-platform integration tests. He has a knack for juggling automation, observability, and developer tooling to make teams more productive and systems more resilient. Trained originally as a chemist, he brings an analytical, experiment-driven approach to troubleshooting and continuous improvement. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic solutions that balance velocity with long-term maintainability.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc) Chemistry, Bachelor of Science (BSc) Chemistry at Massey University
English, Dutch
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Github Skills (29)
javascript10
mobx10
typescript10
ui-design10
uid10
front-end-development10
typescript-types10
rust10
typescripts10
react10
integration-testing10
test-automation10
ruby9
carbon-design-system9
system-design9
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
artichoke/artichoke
Dec 2021 - Dec 2022
💎 Artichoke is a Ruby made with Rust
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:203 reviews, 256 commits, 45 PRs in 11 months
Contributions summary:Ben primarily focused on improving the test harness and implementing integration tests for the Artichoke Ruby project. Their contributions included the creation of a more robust test harness, utilizing TOML for output serialization, and ensuring the tests ran correctly on Windows. The user also added tests for specific features, updated code, and fixed RuboCop warnings in the Ruby backend and spinoso-exception related scripts. Their work demonstrates a focus on improving code quality and test coverage for binaries.
ruby-languagerust-applicationrustrust-crateruby
ONEARMY/community-platform
Oct 2018 - Jul 2019
A platform to build useful communities that aim to tackle global problems
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:33 commits, 10 PRs, 39 pushes in 8 months
Contributions summary:Ben primarily focused on front-end development, implementing UI components and layouts using React and TypeScript. Their contributions include the creation of a main layout with header, the integration of a map feature and popups, along with filter controls. They also made changes to the documentation section and integrated MobX for state management, demonstrating their work on several different UI elements and features.
climate-impactreactaimtackleproblems
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