Ben Spiller
Software Engineer
Cambridge, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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SeniorBen Spiller is a Cambridge-educated software leader with 11+ years crafting high-performance systems and leading engineering teams across startups and enterprise products. Now Director of Engineering for Cumulocity’s Analytics team after a long tenure at Software AG, he blends hands-on expertise in C++, Java, C#, and Python with a strong track record evolving product direction, Agile practices and cross-company integrations. He champions engineering quality—from maintainable code to usability—and builds healthier, more efficient teams through improved hiring, onboarding, mentoring and recurring learning initiatives. Comfortable alternating between deep technical work and people leadership, he has repeatedly driven product and culture change during acquisitions and platform integrations. A detail that often goes unnoticed: his formative work at Apama gave him rare experience across both ultra-low-latency back-ends and developer-facing APIs and tools, shaping his pragmatic approach to durable, loved products.
11 years of coding experience
Github Skills (133)
restructuredtext10
python10
testing10
test-framework10
cross-language10
build-automation10
integration-testing10
markdown10
apama10
cumulocity10
pysys10
lru10
test-automation10
build-system10
documentation-generator10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
ben-spiller/sphinx-autodocgen
Sep 2020 - Aug 2021
Extension for the Sphinx documentation generator that automatically generates .rst files for your Python modules
Contributions:7 releases, 13 commits, 1 PR in 11 months
documentation-generatorpython-modules
ben-spiller/pysysjava
Aug 2020 - Mar 2022
Java plugins for PySys
Contributions:7 releases, 149 commits, 5 PRs in 1 year 6 months
javapysysjunit
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