Benjamin Simmonds
Software Engineer at Microsoft
Sydney, New South Wales, Switzerland
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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.
13 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computer Science, Secure and Reliable Systems, Master's degree, Computer Science, Secure and Reliable Systems at ETH ZürichMatriculation, Economics & Law, Matriculation, Economics & Law at Kantonsschule Enge, Zürich
English, German, French
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (1)
biztalk6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
bm4cs/dots
Apr 2021 - Jan 2023
Contributions:150 commits, 68 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 9 months
bm4cs/bencode.net
Aug 2015 - Aug 2019
Contributions:119 pushes, 1 branch, 1 tag in 4 years
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