Ben Parsons
Solutions Consultant at Element
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolBen Parsons is a Solutions Consultant based in London with 14 years of experience blending software engineering, developer advocacy, and client-facing delivery around decentralized communications. He helped grow Matrix adoption—supporting governments, universities and enterprises—transitioning from Senior Developer Advocate at Matrix.org to leading Professional Services and customer onboarding at Element. Hands-on engineering runs through his work, from building tooling to process design to a notable open-source contribution that automated Matrix spec proposal listings from GitHub issues. He pairs technical depth (full-stack and scripting experience) with product and project management, shaping product direction through requirements and feedback. Known for making playful demos and community-focused content, he brings a practical, user-minded approach to complex distributed systems.
14 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
BSc (Hons.), Computer Science, BSc (Hons.), Computer Science at The University of ManchesterGCSEs & A-Levels, GCSEs & A-Levels at Prince Henry's High School
English, French
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (23)
spec10
restructuredtext10
matrix10
python10
rs10
github-api10
scripting9
http9
webrequest9
http-request9
data-extraction8
documentation8
documents8
document-generation8
html6
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
matrix-org/matrix-spec-proposals
May 2018 - May 2020
Proposals for changes to the matrix specification
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:69 commits, 16 PRs, 48 pushes in 2 years
Contributions summary:Ben primarily worked on developing a Python script to generate an RST file from GitHub issue data related to the matrix-spec-proposals repository. They refactored the script to use tables to display proposal information, and added functionality to separate tables by labels and include author and PR information. Their contributions also included improvements to the formatting of the output and handling of date and documentation fields extracted from the Github issue text, making the script usable for generating a comprehensive list of Matrix Spec Change proposals.
the-matrixproposalsspecificationspecmatrix
benparsons/redrawism-genredraw
Jan 2015 - Jan 2017
Contributions:10 commits, 5 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 1 month
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