Ben Stovold
Lead Software Engineer at Kraken
Brisbane City, Queensland, Australia
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Top SchoolBen Stovold is a Lead Software Engineer with 13 years of experience building distributed systems and high-performing teams, currently driving green energy tech at Kraken Technologies within Octopus Energy. He combines deep backend expertise in Python (FastAPI, Django), scalable data platforms (Postgres, Snowflake), and ML-enabled forecasting with practical front-end and cloud-native skills in TypeScript, React, containers, and serverless. His work has directly unlocked tens of millions in revenue and market opportunities—building ML infrastructure for load forecasting and modernising payment systems processing billions annually. He’s delivered critical systems across energy, space operations, payments, and consumer hardware, often leading cross-border teams to bootstrap greenfield platforms at scale. Based in Brisbane, he pairs production-first engineering with a knack for translating complex domain problems into pragmatic, automated solutions.
13 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
The University of Sydney
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Github contributions (5)
thoughtfulpixel/objective-c-conventions
Jul 2014 - Aug 2015
Contributions:16 commits, 2 PRs, 1 push in 1 year 1 month
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followben/NextMQTT
Oct 2019 - Jan 2020
A modern Swift MQTT client
Contributions:56 commits, 4 PRs, 26 pushes in 2 months
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