Ben Rees
Head Of Engineering at JAVLN
Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
Summary
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Top SchoolBen Rees is a pragmatic engineering leader with over two decades of hands-on software experience and more than a decade in senior management roles, currently serving as Head of Engineering in Auckland. He specialises in the Microsoft .NET ecosystem and has scaled mobile and web engineering across startups and fast-growth organisations, driving measurable improvements in delivery through Agile, DevOps, and Flow frameworks. Ben builds high-performing teams (20–90 engineers) by empowering squads with purpose, clear boundaries, and technical stewardship, and has repeatedly boosted delivery outcomes—e.g., raising sprint success rates from below 70% to above 90%. He’s led CI/CD and DevOps transformations at scale, introduced team levelling and capacity targets, and reduced defect load through disciplined triage and metric-driven practices. Comfortable both setting technical strategy and rolling up his sleeves, Ben blends product-focused decision making with a bias to action. Based in Auckland, he brings a long track record of turning troubled projects into stable, productive teams that deliver user-focused outcomes.
11 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science and Information Systems, Computer Science and Information Systems at Massey University
Github Skills (2)
typescript2
bull2
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
benrnz-sv/SvnLogGraph
Feb 2015 - Jul 2020
Contributions:2 PRs, 38 pushes, 4 branches in 5 years 5 months
subversionvisualization
benrnz-sv/Mikado1
Jan 2016 - Apr 2016
Contributions:2 PRs, 16 pushes, 21 branches in 3 months
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