Benji Stephenson
Software Engineer at Factor
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolBenji Stephenson is a pragmatic software engineer and technical lead with 11 years’ experience delivering distributed systems, embedded IoT, and game platform services across sectors from government to energy and gaming. He blends hands-on engineering in Scala, Haskell and Fennel with architecture and team coaching—helping organisations move monoliths to microservices, cut data load times from hours to minutes, and shorten delivery cycles to on-demand. Benji is as comfortable writing firmware for smart grids as designing event-driven, multi-tenant billing platforms, and he pairs that breadth with an interest in category theory, design patterns and Flow Framework metrics to improve team effectiveness. He’s a practiced teacher—having led SAFe courses and taught yoga and martial arts—and enjoys mentoring engineers on code design and observability practices. Based in London, he brings a client-facing mindset that favours co-creating user-focused solutions and a quirky devotion to vimming, tea, and cake.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science, 1st with Honours, Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science, 1st with Honours at Northumbria UniversityDiploma, NCTJ Multimedia Journalism, Diploma, NCTJ Multimedia Journalism at News Associates
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Github Skills (102)
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structural-equality10
handlers10
immutable-collections10
functor10
monad-transformers10
curry10
language-extensions10
semigroup10
language-ext10
declarative-programming10
monads10
higher-kinded-types10
monoid10
applicative10
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
benjstephenson/kittens-ts
Nov 2021 - Apr 2022
Contributions:50 commits, 1 PR, 28 pushes in 4 months
benjstephenson/prezto
Jan 2015 - Feb 2017
Contributions:19 pushes in 2 years
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