Ben Symonds
Director Of Engineering at Our Future Health UK
England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolBen Symonds is a Director of Engineering with 17 years' experience leading teams to build and operate large-scale web and platform services across startups and established companies. He currently heads engineering at Our Future Health UK after progressing from Lead Technical Architect, bringing hands-on expertise in developer workflows, CI/CD, and platform reliability from prior roles at Heroku and OpenCorporates. Ben has a strong track record scaling critical systems—shipping builds, pipelines, review apps and CI services at Heroku and managing SMS and backend platforms earlier in his career. He pairs technical leadership with people development, having repeatedly grown and mentored engineering teams as a first hire or tech lead. Trained in physics at Cambridge, he combines a scientific approach to problem-solving with pragmatic product delivery. An understated strength is his consistent focus on operational excellence: turning complex distributed systems into dependable developer-facing services.
17 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
BA MSci Natural Sciences (Physics), BA MSci Natural Sciences (Physics) at University of Cambridge
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Github Skills (127)
heroku-cli10
rest-api10
blocking10
hanami10
sketchup10
opencorporates10
circe10
non-blocking9
reactive9
api9
json-schema9
ruby9
http9
heroku9
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Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
openc/morph-docker-ruby
Jul 2016 - Jan 2019
Docker image for running Ruby scrapers in Morph
Contributions:12 PRs, 11 pushes, 13 branches in 2 years 7 months
docker-imagescrapersdockerrubymorph
openc/turbot-runner
Jul 2016 - Jan 2019
Utilities for running bots with Turbot
Contributions:9 PRs, 25 pushes, 8 branches in 2 years 7 months
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