Benjamin Ellis
Software Consultant at The Softweyr Company Ltd
Milton Keynes, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolBenjamin Ellis is a seasoned software consultant and architect based in Milton Keynes with over a decade of hands-on experience delivering scalable, enterprise-grade systems across Java and .NET stacks. He has led technical teams and greenfield projects—from high-throughput messaging and billing systems to event portals for national ceremonies—bringing strong DevOps and CI/CD discipline to organizations. Benjamin combines architecture, security and delivery expertise (SAML/MFA, JWT, OAuth) with a history of introducing practices such as TDD/BDD, containerisation and automated testing to improve quality and deployment velocity. Known for pragmatic leadership, he has grown engineering teams, served as build/release lead and SCRUM Master, and often acts as the key technical decision maker during hiring and platform evolution. An engineer who moves easily between hands-on implementation and strategic architecture, he consistently focuses on measurable operational improvements such as scaling messaging throughput and reducing release friction.
13 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Island SchoolBachelor of Science (BSc) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BSc) Computer Science at Loughborough University
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Github Skills (200)
exi10
adfs10
flask-application10
flask-restful10
database-management10
orchestration10
foundationdb10
transactional10
docker-compose10
liquibase10
golang10
credentials10
database-migrations10
container10
maintenance10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
BEllis/B-Go
Oct 2012 - Sep 2015
Contributions:18 commits, 6 pushes in 3 years
BEllis/poetry-plugin-package-info
Jun 2023 - Jul 2023
Poetry plugin for producing a py file containing package information
Contributions:12 releases, 2 PRs, 32 pushes in 1 month
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