Ben Willett
Network DevOps Engineer at Healthscope
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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Top SchoolBen Willett is a Network DevOps Engineer with 25+ years designing and operating large-scale enterprise networks and a decade focused on cloud-integrated infrastructure across GCP, Azure and AWS. He specializes in hybrid connectivity, secure integration of cloud VPCs with on-prem networks, and firewall/security policy engineering (notably Palo Alto), combining architecture with hands-on troubleshooting for environments supporting up to ~1M users and ~1,600 sites. Ben builds automation and observability tools—using Terraform and Python—to accelerate diagnostics, map multi-cloud topologies, and analyze complex firewall policy dependencies. His career blends public-sector transformation programs and commercial reliability work, bringing operational rigor from healthcare and education networks to high-availability platforms. Outside enterprise networking he runs Techcamp, teaching kids to code with Lego robotics and Arduino, reflecting a practical, community-focused approach to tech education.
10 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
BA (Hons), Leisure & Tourism Management, BA (Hons), Leisure & Tourism Management at London Metropolitan UniversitySt Johns Primary SchoolBSC (Hons), Food Studies & Recreation & Leisure studies, BSC (Hons), Food Studies & Recreation & Leisure studies at Cardiff Metropolitan UniversityBusiness, Sport Science, Accounting, Media, Sports Coaching, Business, Sport Science, Accounting, Media, Sports Coaching at Weymouth CollegeMaths, English, Photography, French, Art, Geography, German, Maths, English, Photography, French, Art, Geography, German at The Wey Valley School
English, French, German
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (29)
openembedded6
sqlalchemy6
f56
package6
flask-sqlalchemy6
sqlite6
python6
selenium-webdriver6
selenium6
digit6
bitbake6
integer5
spell5
maths4
voice3
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
benjaminwillett/houseprices
Oct 2017 - Dec 2021
Simple Web scraper that goes and collects median house price information for specified suburbs and presents them on a webpage.
Contributions:6 PRs, 72 pushes, 2 branches in 4 years 2 months
housepythonscrapyweb-scraperscraping
benjaminwillett/Webinterface
May 2016 - Nov 2017
Contributions:3 commits, 2 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 5 months
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