Benjamin Lees
Staff Engineer at Deliveroo
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolBenjamin Lees is a product-focused staff engineer with 11 years of experience delivering scalable, reliable systems across cloud-native and serverless architectures. He combines hands-on infrastructure expertise—Terraform, Kubernetes/GKE, Argo CD, and AWS/GCP—with leadership in observability, FinOps, and IaC to drive cost-efficient, resilient platforms. He has led cross-functional teams to build orchestration systems for energy optimisation, public APIs, and marketplaces, often navigating poorly documented third‑party integrations to deliver dependable production services. Comfortable across TypeScript, Python, Node and backend/data stacks, he excels at translating product needs into pragmatic technical designs and CI/CD improvements that reduce cost and risk. Based in London, he pairs a civil engineering MEng background and a machine-learning nanodegree with a pragmatic, systems-thinking approach that surfaces non-obvious operational improvements.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Machine Learning Engineer Nanodegree Machine Learning, Machine Learning Engineer Nanodegree Machine Learning at UdacityMaster of Engineering (MEng) Civil Engineering , Master of Engineering (MEng) Civil Engineering at University of LeedsCivil Engineering, Civil Engineering at University of Calgary
English
Github Skills (117)
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Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
foundersandcoders/carrier-pigeon
Mar 2015 - Sep 2017
Contributions:460 commits, 251 PRs, 181 pushes in 2 years 6 months
inventorymanagement-systeminventory-management-systemphpinventory-management
benjaminlees/Es6
Aug 2015 - Oct 2015
Contributions:38 commits, 14 PRs, 32 pushes in 1 month
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