Benjamin Simmonds
Director at Simmonds & Co
Canberra, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolBenjamin Simmonds is a seasoned software leader and director with over a decade of hands-on experience designing and shipping large-scale distributed systems across government, hyperscale cloud, and enterprise sectors. He combines deep technical breadth—from low-level C and Java EE monoliths to cloud-native Kubernetes, telemetry pipelines, and modern Python/TypeScript stacks—with proven architectural leadership on high-pressure international projects. Notable achievements include architecting an internationally deployed distributed data processing engine for an Australian government program and building high-scale telemetry platforms for retail operations. He mentors teams in pragmatic patterns (DDD, hexagonal architecture) and champions rigorous CI/CD, code review and open-source principles to create robust, auditable systems. Based in Canberra, he’s pursuing Rust, Generative AI and entrepreneurship while holding dual Masters (Cyber Security and IT) and a long history of turning messy legacy landscapes into scalable, maintainable platforms.
12 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Machine Learning, Machine Learning at Stanford UniversityMaster's degree, Information Technology in Software Engineering, Master's degree, Information Technology in Software Engineering at University of CanberraDiploma of Project Management, High Distinction, Diploma of Project Management, High Distinction at Southern Cross UniversityUNSW SydneyProgramming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
bm4cs/bencode.io
Aug 2019 - Jan 2023
Contributions:206 commits, 236 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 6 months
bm4cs/bencode.net
Aug 2015 - Aug 2019
Contributions:119 pushes, 1 branch, 1 tag in 4 years
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