Benjamin Cable
Chief Executive Officer at LootLocker
Greater Bournemouth Area United Kingdom
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Top SchoolBenjamin Cable is a Go-focused engineering leader and CEO with 11 years building and scaling backend systems, from PHP monolith migrations to Go microservices and observability platforms. He has led teams of 10–30 engineers across product and architecture roles—driving migrations to Go, introducing Prometheus-based monitoring, and improving performance and reliability in production. Comfortable both as a hands-on principal engineer and as an executive, he’s shipped payment and commerce back-ends at scale and overseen multi-country rollouts. An active contributor to open source and co-organiser of a local Golang meetup, he pairs community-minded craftsmanship with pragmatic process improvements. Outside work he channels technical curiosity into game development in C/SDL2 and music production—underscoring a creative, systems-oriented approach to engineering.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree, Information Technology Project Management, Bachelor's Degree, Information Technology Project Management at Digital Campus
English, French, Japanese
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Github Skills (126)
programming-language10
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golang10
go10
validation9
playfab9
currency9
ruby9
currency-converter9
subsequence9
12-factor9
jwt-go9
sanitization9
database8
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Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
LUSHDigital/microservice-core-golang
Jul 2017 - Mar 2019
A set of core functionality and convenience structs for a Golang microservice
Contributions:8 releases, 62 commits, 37 PRs in 1 year 8 months
golangmicroservicesmicroservicego
ladydascalie/ulid-tools
Apr 2023 - Jun 2025
Contributions:2 releases, 11 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 2 months
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