Ben Saunders
Software Engineering Team Lead at BBC
Greater Guildford Area, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolBen Saunders is a software engineering team lead with 13 years of experience building and guiding full-stack web teams, currently leading engineering at the BBC after several senior and lead roles at UKCloud. He started as a front-end specialist and expanded into conversion optimisation and UX before becoming a Ruby-focused back-end and full-stack developer, blending hands-on coding with product-minded delivery. As a line manager and Scrum practitioner he combines people leadership with practical engineering, mentoring teams to ship reliable, user-centred systems. Based in the Greater Guildford area, he has a background in analytics-driven web strategy from early roles managing web teams and applying Google Analytics to boost commercial outcomes. Notably, his psychology degree informs a pragmatic emphasis on user behaviour and conversion when shaping technical decisions.
13 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
BSc, Psychology, BSc, Psychology at Royal Holloway, University of London
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Github Skills (32)
airbrake9
readable8
jenkins-api8
expressjs7
ruby7
rspec7
vcloud-director7
jenkins-jobs7
html6
ruby-on-rails6
ruby-client6
repeat6
css6
jenkins-cli6
msword6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
bensaunders/dotfiles
Oct 2019 - Aug 2021
Contributions:2 pushes in 1 year 9 months
bensaunders/substance-song
Jan 2023 - Jan 2023
Contributions:18 pushes, 1 branch in 13 days
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