Ben Thorburn

Manchester, England, United Kingdom

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Ben Thorburn is a Computer Science graduate and full-stack engineer with nine years of hands-on experience, now based in Stevenage, UK, who gravitates toward backend and low-level system design. He builds modular, scalable services and clean APIs while also shipping responsive front-end interfaces, with a particular passion for compilers, embedded systems, RTOS, hypervisors, FPGAs and CPU architecture. Ben pairs a strong emphasis on code quality and maintainability with a curiosity for how systems function under the hood—whether that’s microservice communication, compiler internals, or hardware-level optimisations in Verilog. Outside software he pursues hardware projects like mechanical keyboards and RISC-V/ARM experimentation, and he’s an active FOSS advocate who enjoys breaking down complex problems into efficient, testable solutions.

9 years of coding experience

1 year of employment as a software developer

Diploma of Education, Game and Interactive Media Design, Diploma of Education, Game and Interactive Media Design at Lancaster & Morecambe College

Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at The Manchester Metropolitan University

Programming languages (1)

TypeScript

Github contributions (5)

BenThorburn/BenThorburn

Jan 2023 - Mar 2023

Contributions:17 commits, 17 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month

BenThorburn/react_ts_spa

Sep 2022 - Dec 2022

Contributions:4 PRs, 3 pushes, 4 branches in 3 months

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