Ben Thompson
Data & Analytics Engineer
Folkestone and Hythe District, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolBen Thompson is a Data & Analytics Engineer with 10 years' experience building data platforms and BI for travel and media businesses, currently focusing on BigQuery, dbt and Looker at Holiday Extras. He has a strong cloud-first background—designing ETL, streaming device ingestion with Pub/Sub/Dataflow, and driving GCP cost optimisations—paired with practical experience improving self-serve analytics and operational SLAs. Prior roles span hands-on data migrations at Appsbroker and web performance, DevOps and project leadership at Holiday Extras, giving him a rare blend of engineering, performance tuning and delivery discipline. He combines a technical MSc in Computer Science with an early career in web and software engineering, and even co-founded a small bakery operation, showing entrepreneurial grit and a pragmatic approach to building reliable systems.
10 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts - BA, French Studies, Bachelor of Arts - BA, French Studies at University of BirminghamMaster of Science - MS, Computer Science, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science at University of Kent
Github Skills (1)
code-behind9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
holidayextras/app-ml-accelerator
Jul 2024 - Jul 2024
Looker extension designed to give business users access to BigQuery and Vertex AI's machine learning capabilities.
Contributions:3 pushes, 3 branches in 1 day
benthompsonhx/admin_power_pack
Apr 2022 - Apr 2022
Looker admin_power_pack
Contributions:2 pushes in 1 day
adminlookeradmin-dashboardpackpower
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