Summary
Benjamin Ong is a Senior Engineer based in Melbourne with 8 years of experience building reliable, customer-focused systems across the full stack, with deep expertise in .NET, AWS and modern front-end frameworks. He has progressed from hands-on roles in IoT and integration work to leading engineering teams at Xero and now Atlassian, owning platform quality, cross-team delivery and test strategies in payments and enterprise systems. Known for driving measurable outcomes through incremental delivery, he blends technical craftsmanship (code/design reviews, POCs) with operational ownership like health reviews and CI/CD automation. Passionate about inclusive team culture and continuous improvement, he frequently shapes process and performance through retros and empowerment. An engineer with an electrical and computer systems background, he brings practical IoT and integration experience—having built OCPP servers and cloud-connected EV charging software—that informs his pragmatic approach to cloud-native platform design.
8 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.) Electrical and Computer Systems Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.) Electrical and Computer Systems Engineering at University of Wisconsin-Madison
Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.) Electrical and Computer Systems Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.) Electrical and Computer Systems Engineering at Monash University