Ben Ritchie
Head Of Engineering at Space Intelligence
City of Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolBen Ritchie is a pragmatic engineering leader with 11 years’ experience building and scaling mission-critical telecom and digital programmes, currently Head of Engineering at Space Intelligence. He has led teams of 50+ engineers and run £10M+ product lines (VoLTE and telecom application servers) through acquisition integrations, large-scale releases and safety-of-life contexts. Comfortable at the intersection of product and engineering, he shapes data-driven strategy, transitions teams to agile, and prioritises developer autonomy and psychological safety to sustain delivery under pressure. His background spans hands-on C/Java development, customer-facing support and digital transformation for research institutions (notably RBGE’s BIOSCAN and herbarium projects), reflecting an unusual blend of telco systems rigor and public-sector digital stewardship.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Arts - MA, Computer Science, Master of Arts - MA, Computer Science at University of Cambridge
Github Skills (60)
homestead9
zarr7
n-dimensional6
science6
netcdf6
proxy6
python6
datasets6
sip6
chunked6
router6
editing5
biodiversity5
provisioning5
pandas5
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
RBGE-Herbarium/Specify_forms
Feb 2022 - Dec 2022
For files required for the editing of forms within Specify
Contributions:26 commits, 3 PRs, 24 pushes in 9 months
editingspecify
Metaswitch/sas-client
Mar 2015 - Feb 2017
Contributions:8 PRs, 8 pushes, 6 branches in 1 year 11 months
client-libraryjavaclient-serverassurance
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