Ben Simms
Lead DevOps Engineer at Artificial Labs
Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolBen Simms is a Lead DevOps Engineer based in Germany with 11 years of experience building reliable infrastructure and developer tooling across research and industry. He blends practical DevOps leadership at Artificial Labs with a strong research background in software-defined networking and GPU-accelerated networking utilities from Lancaster University. Passionate about functional languages, type systems, and compiler design, he brings a language-oriented approach to systems engineering and even advocates running Rust on microcontrollers. His career spans hands-on research roles and student-led cybersecurity leadership, reflecting both deep technical curiosity and community engagement. Known for translating experimental research into production-ready solutions, he excels at bridging low-level systems work with scalable operational practice.
11 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at Lancaster University
Github Skills (164)
python10
bots10
bash10
sound-effects10
vim10
embedded10
computer-science10
binary-tree10
javascript10
async10
brightness10
melpa10
emacs-lsp10
emacs-lisp10
api10
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
YuiYukihira/PyChat
Sep 2015 - Oct 2016
A TCP chat using python
Contributions:22 commits, 2 PRs, 19 pushes in 1 year 1 month
tcp-chatchatpythontcp
simmsb/discord-emacs.el
Nov 2017 - Jul 2021
Discord rich presence for emacs.
Contributions:32 commits, 2 PRs, 29 pushes in 3 years 7 months
discorddiscord-botemacsrich-presencediscord-rich-presence
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