Ben New
Senior Vice President Of Technical Product Management (Product CTO) at Trilogy
Western Australia
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Top SchoolBen New is a seasoned software leader and Product CTO with over a decade of hands-on and executive experience building cloud-native, serverless and enterprise products from Australia. He currently leads technical product strategy for multimillion-dollar portfolios at Trilogy, blending product roadmaps, architecture and AI-first acquisition playbooks with day-to-day engineering guidance. A certified AWS Solutions Architect and Professional Scrum Master, he still codes and has delivered generative-AI assistants, serverless AWS platforms and full-stack applications using TypeScript, Node.js and Vue. Ben founded and organizes the Perth Serverless meetup and contributes to open-source stability and CI improvements on projects like collectiveaccess/providence, showing a pragmatic focus on maintainability and ops. He has transformed underperforming delivery teams in consulting roles and scaled in-house teams from on-premise to serverless cloud operations for research and government clients. Pragmatic, adaptive and community-minded, he combines deep technical craft with strong stakeholder communication and product-first leadership.
12 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
BSc, Computer Science, BSc, Computer Science at Murdoch UniversityMelville Senior High School
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Github Skills (17)
unit-testing10
cicd10
php10
mysql9
plugin-development9
configuration-management9
sql9
git7
html6
scandir6
query-optimization6
css6
doctrine6
jquery6
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Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
collectiveaccess/providence
May 2014 - Oct 2015
Cataloguing and data/media management application
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:34 commits, 14 PRs, 27 comments in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Ben's commits primarily focus on improving the codebase's stability and maintainability. They fixed a type error in a PHP foreach loop, ensuring that `getRepresentations()` returns an array before iteration. The user also contributed to plugin development, creating a relationship generator plugin with unit tests and configuration options. Furthermore, the user implemented enhancements and bug fixes related to the Continuous Integration (CI) setup, including setting up a Travis CI build process and addressing PHP 5.3 compatibility issues.
intranetphpltimedia-managementpdo
leftclickben/event-sourced-patience
Nov 2019 - Jun 2020
Demonstration of event sourcing using Patience as the problem domain.
Contributions:38 commits, 67 PRs, 96 pushes in 7 months
patienceevent-sourcingcqrsdomainproblem
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