Ben Tisdall
Senior Software Engineer at BBC Studios
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolBen Tisdall is a seasoned Senior Software Engineer based in London with 12 years of experience building and operating scalable backend and platform systems across media and mobility sectors. He has led major infrastructure migrations and cloud transformations—most notably re-implementing PhotoBox’s web stack in AWS and operating hundreds of instances for peak seasonal traffic—and now works on backend platforms for BBC Studios and Mobimeo. Comfortable across DevOps, platform engineering and backend development, Ben combines hands-on scripting and automation (Ruby, CI/CD, configuration management) with production-grade system design. A former sound engineer and DIY consultant, he brings a pragmatic, cost-aware mindset and a history of reducing vendor lock-in to his engineering approach.
12 years of coding experience
37 years of employment as a software developer
Sound Engineering Diploma, Sound Engineering Diploma at City of Westminster CollegeTarring High SchoolWorthing Sixth Form CollegeUniversity College London
French, German
Github Skills (168)
command-line-interface10
cli10
aws-cloudformation10
aws-cli10
amazon10
amazon-web-services10
ajv10
aws10
sanity9
lambda9
tencent-cloud9
infrastructure9
packaging9
validate9
policies9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
btisdall/docker-image-logitech-media-server
Oct 2017 - Jan 2023
Contributions:2 PRs, 31 pushes, 7 branches in 5 years 3 months
btisdall/dotfiles
May 2018 - Jul 2024
Contributions:64 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 3 months
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