Benjamin Harling
Senior Software Engineer at Samsara
England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolBenjamin Harling is a senior software engineer and systems architect with nearly two decades of professional experience and a 13-year focused track record in building full-stack, concurrent, and globally scalable platforms. He has led teams through complex technical, security, and regulatory challenges—driving ISO27001 and SOC2 implementations—and played a pivotal role in turning around a company’s fortunes during the COVID period. A longtime Python practitioner (25 years of personal experience claimed) with strong infrastructure-as-code expertise, he balances hands-on engineering with strategic technical leadership. Now at Samsara after architecting and delivering high‑profile systems at CrowdComms, he brings rare experience shipping secure, production-grade services for multinational clients while keeping a creative arts background that informs pragmatic, user-aware design choices.
13 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Creative Arts, Fine Art, Computer Graphics, Music, Writing, BA Hons, Creative Arts, Fine Art, Computer Graphics, Music, Writing, BA Hons at Bath Spa University
English, French
Stackoverflow
2,830reputation
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21answers
17questions
importerror
top-1%
python
top-5%
Github Skills (179)
fastapi10
invalidation10
python10
json-schema10
rest-framework10
twilio-api10
django-cms10
swagger10
openapi10
zappa10
importerror10
async10
django10
validation10
api10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
crowdcomms/crowdcomms-django-test
Sep 2018 - Jan 2023
An interview test
Contributions:1 PR, 6 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 5 months
python-3testingpython
crowdcomms/grip-python
Jan 2018 - Apr 2021
Python SDK for the GRIP intros API
Contributions:1 PR, 14 pushes, 2 branches in 3 years 3 months
apipythonsdkgripsdk-python
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