Ben Thorner
Senior Backend Developer at Kraken Technologies
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolBen Thorner is a Senior Backend Developer based in London with 11 years of experience building reliable web services in Python and Ruby. He has progressed from research and internship roles at Cambridge and Redgate to senior engineering positions at BT and the Government Digital Service, and now leads backend work at Kraken Technologies. Ben specializes in scalable API and microservice design, containerised deployments and cloud operations (Docker, AWS, Fastly), with a track record shipping production systems for large public and telecom networks. His background combines strong academic foundations (Cambridge, first-class BSc and Distinction MSc) with practical experience in real-time and big-data processing, and he often operates at the intersection of infrastructure, observability and application code.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, 1st, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, 1st at University of Cambridge
English, French
Github Skills (200)
vim10
rsync10
cloud-platform10
foreign10
command-line-tool10
influxdb10
unix10
puppet10
api10
single-sign-on10
prometheus10
portal10
zsh10
nim-language10
activemodel10
Programming languages (22)
Github contributions (5)
benthorner/zip-zsh
Jan 2020 - Feb 2025
Contributions:16 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 2 months
benthorner/vim-rc
Mar 2017 - Mar 2025
Contributions:104 pushes, 1 branch in 8 years 1 month
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