Benjamin Howe
Senior Software Engineer at Wise
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolBenjamin Howe is a Senior Software Engineer based in London with 11 years’ experience building reliable, secure systems and developer enablement tooling across finance and health tech. He has delivered measurable impact—from driving 90%+ best-practice adoption at American Express via nudges and repository scanning to deploying generative-AI frameworks and automated safeguarding checks at Elder. Currently focused on security engineering at Wise, he combines backend and monitoring expertise with a knack for practical automation that saves teams time (his Slack workflows once reclaimed ~1,000 hours). Comfortable mentoring and upskilling colleagues, Ben also brings hands-on ops experience and an eye for reducing vendor and operational risk through improved observability. Notably, he blends product-minded engineering with security-first thinking, often turning small tooling projects into company-wide efficiencies.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BSc) Computer Science at University of Reading
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Github Skills (156)
python10
testing10
websocket10
automation10
nike10
micropython10
embedded10
markdown10
monitoring10
javascript10
snap10
chromium10
firefox10
api10
webapp10
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
ip6only/api
Jun 2019 - Jun 2021
Contributions:14 commits, 2 PRs, 11 pushes in 1 year 11 months
BenjaminEHowe/yamm-client
Oct 2017 - Nov 2020
The backend for YAMM - a money manager tool.
Contributions:8 releases, 56 pushes, 9 branches in 3 years 1 month
backendpythonmoneymoney-manager
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