Ben Wilcock
Product Manager at Red Hat
Bristol, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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SeniorBen Wilcock is a Product Manager and experienced software practitioner based in Bristol with 11 years building back-end systems, APIs and developer-facing tooling. He blends hands-on engineering—demonstrated by open-source work like a Spring Boot/Axon CQRS microservice sampler—with product strategy and technical marketing, having given the first GenAI talk at BackstageCon in 2023. Comfortable switching between architect, developer and consultant roles, he focuses on pragmatic, testable designs and developer experience. Colleagues benefit from his ability to translate complex distributed patterns into clear product requirements and working prototypes.
11 years of coding experience
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (26)
cqrs10
microservices-application10
event-sourcing10
java10
javas10
spring-boot10
microservices10
gradlew10
gradle10
api-design9
restful-api9
api-rest9
rest-api9
dockers7
docker7
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
benwilcock/cqrs-microservice-sampler
Sep 2015 - Sep 2016
A Java Microservice & CQRS Demo using Spring Boot, Axon & Docker
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:85 commits, 76 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year
Contributions summary:Ben primarily focused on setting up the basic Gradle build scripts across multiple modules, including command-side, query-side, and common components. They defined event classes and associated commands and aggregates, establishing the foundation for a CQRS microservice architecture. They then proceeded to build out core components, including REST endpoints, and integration tests to validate the command and query-side interactions, creating the means to interact with and test the system. They refactored the code to use a product domain, with appropriate events and commands.
spring-bootaxondockercqrsspring
benwilcock/spring-cloud-gateway-demo
Jun 2019 - Apr 2020
Code and articles to help folks get started with Spring Cloud Gateway.
Contributions:91 commits, 3 PRs, 107 pushes in 10 months
spring-bootspring-cloud-gatewayget-startedgatewayspring
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