Ben Starmer-smith
Co-Founder at Conduktor
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolBen Starmer-smith is a London-based Co-Founder and DevOps-focused software engineer with seven years of experience building cloud-native infrastructure and developer tooling. He blends hands-on systems work—Terraform providers, Go CLIs, Helm charts, and GitHub Actions pipelines—with performance testing and multi-cloud staging environments across GCP, Azure, and AWS. Previously he led a team delivering a secure, compliant AWS Landing Zone for UK public sector customers, demonstrating both technical depth and regulatory-minded architecture. As technical founder of Suzy Parker Games he rapidly prototypes puzzle games end-to-end, revealing a creative streak that pairs game design with robotics and explainable neural network research interests. He holds a First Class Computer Science degree from the University of Kent and has teaching experience in object-oriented programming, underscoring his ability to communicate complex concepts. Known for shipping pragmatic automation and developer-facing tools, he favors solving real-world reliability and observability challenges over theoretical perfection.
7 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at University of Kent
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Github Skills (26)
docker10
kafka10
docker-compose10
zookeeper10
conduktor10
apache-kafka10
confluent9
governance9
streaming8
developer-tools8
cats-effect7
terraform-provider7
helm7
cli7
database6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
conduktor/openmessaging-benchmark
Nov 2024 - Nov 2025
OpenMessaging Benchmark Framework
Contributions:1 review, 13 PRs, 19 pushes in 1 year
BStarmerSmith/MNIST_LRP_Application
Dec 2020 - Apr 2021
A Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) trained on the MNIST dataset to detect handwritten digits.
Contributions:4 PRs, 25 pushes, 5 branches in 4 months
convolutional-neural-networksmnist-dataset
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