Benjamin Sproule
Senior Software Engineer at NatWest Group
Reading, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolBenjamin Sproule is a senior software engineer with 11 years’ experience building and leading teams to deliver cloud-native, high-availability systems across finance, media, and enterprise SaaS. He has led multi-country developer and DevOps teams through platform consolidations and migrations using technologies like Kubernetes, Terraform, Google Cloud, Azure, Kafka, and modern web frameworks (Next/Gatsby), balancing hands-on architecture and people leadership. Benjamin has redesigned large-scale data and trade-processing systems (Spark, Cassandra, Elasticsearch) and introduced CI/CD and testing upgrades that shortened release cycles and improved reliability. Equally comfortable mentoring junior engineers and rolling up his sleeves to implement features, he combines a pragmatic focus on developer experience with a track record of bringing externally hosted products in-house for greater control. Based in Reading, UK, he’s known for spreading enthusiasm across teams and turning complex migrations into sustained, measurable improvements.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
BSc (Hons) Computer Science, BSc (Hons) Computer Science at University of Wolverhampton
French
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Github Skills (200)
swagger10
jenkins-plugin10
static-site-generator10
mongodb10
jenkins10
frontend10
hexo10
compiler10
mutation10
gradle10
jsinterop10
jax-rs10
xml10
graphql10
rest-services10
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
gigaSproule/blog
Jun 2015 - Apr 2023
Contributions:1 review, 96 PRs, 168 pushes in 7 years 11 months
gigaSproule/swagger-gradle-plugin
Jan 2016 - Dec 2022
JAX-RS & SpringMVC supported gradle build plugin to generate Swagger documentation
Contributions:4 releases, 6 reviews, 349 commits in 7 years
gradlegradle-buildsupportedspringmvcgenerate-swagger
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