Ben Tadiar
Senior Software Engineer at Cabinet Office
Plymouth, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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SeniorBen Tadiar is a senior software engineer with 13 years’ commercial experience designing and building PHP-based web applications and APIs for UK public sector and major retail clients. He combines deep backend expertise (PHP, MySQL/Postgres, Elasticsearch, RabbitMQ) with practical frontend chops and DevOps experience across Docker, AWS and CI/CD pipelines. As Technical Director of Tadtech and multiple lead/contract roles for Cabinet Office, MOD and DVSA, he regularly drives architecture, planning and delivery of business-critical services. He contributes to open-source tooling (notably enhancing a PHP Dropbox SDK with persistent OAuth storage and chunked upload support) and is comfortable moving between hands-on coding, infrastructure design and technical leadership. Based in Plymouth, he brings a pragmatic, security- and testing-minded approach to long-lived systems and high-stakes public-sector projects.
13 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
English
Github Skills (5)
php10
oauth10
pdo10
mysql9
database-design8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
BenExile/Dropbox
Jul 2012 - Apr 2013
UNMAINTAINED: PHP 5.3 SDK for the Dropbox REST API
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:77 commits in 8 months
Contributions summary:Ben primarily focused on modifying and adding functionality to the OAuth storage handlers. They introduced a persistent storage handler using PHP PDO, including database connection and token management. Further work included refactoring the code and adding functionality to support chunked uploads.
dropboxapimauticphp-5php
BenExile/MailChimp
Aug 2012 - Nov 2012
Contributions:67 commits in 3 months
apiphp-5phpsdkmailchimp-api
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