Ben Pirt
Principal Technologist at Made Tech
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolBen Pirt is a Principal Technologist based in London with 14 years of experience blending hands-on engineering, product-centred design, and strategic architecture across startups and public sector programmes. He moves comfortably from microcontroller firmware and robotics to high-volume backend services and responsive front-ends, leading teams and embedding strong testing and DevOps practices (TDD/ATDD, CI/CD, AWS). A serial founder and early CTO hire, he has architected scalable time-series and messaging systems at companies like Pachube/Xively and contributed backend persistence improvements to the popular Conductor orchestration platform. At Made Tech he leads legacy modernisation efforts for the MoJ while running his IoT consultancy Pirt Design and Technology, reflecting a rare full-stack breadth that spans hardware production to cloud-scale data platforms. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic technical architect who favours elegant, auditable solutions and continuous learning across languages and stacks.
14 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
MA (Hons) Architecture, MA (Hons) Architecture at The University of EdinburghUniversity College London
English
Github Skills (25)
postgresql10
http10
c1110
java10
esp826610
c1710
javas10
sys10
spring-boot10
webserver10
embedded10
server10
distributed-systems9
workflow-automation9
wifi9
Programming languages (22)
Github contributions (5)
conductor-oss/conductor
Feb 2024 - May 2024
Conductor is an event driven agentic workflow engine providing durable and highly resilient execution engine for applications and AI Agents
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer / Database Engineer
Back-end Developer / Database EngineerContributions:12 reviews, 18 PRs, 16 comments in 3 months
Contributions summary:Ben primarily focused on improving the persistence layer of the Conductor platform. Their contributions included enhancing the SQS event queue configuration, adding a default AWS credentials provider, and optimizing and fixing issues within the PostgreSQL database interactions. Further work involved implementing and caching data within the PostgreSQL PollDataDAO, and developing features that enable more control over the indexing process, and the ability to index on status change only.
agentic-workflowai-agentevent-drivendistributed-systemsgrpc
mirobot/mirobot-sim
Mar 2016 - Mar 2019
A node.js based simulator for Mirobot to use as a stand-in
Contributions:2 commits, 2 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years
nodejs
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