Liam Bennett
Mentor at Digital Boost
Ammanford, Wales, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolLiam Bennett is a seasoned software leader and mentor with 13 years of professional experience building and scaling web platforms, primarily using Ruby on Rails, JavaScript and React. He progressed from hands-on developer roles to CTO at SilkFred, where he led a 20-person engineering organisation, drove a major platform modernisation, redesigned checkout flows to boost conversion, and introduced data and AI initiatives to cut costs and improve customer engagement. Liam founded and successfully exited StudentProofreading.co.uk, designing its Rails-based workflows and automations—an entrepreneurial background that informs his product-first approach to engineering decisions. He blends full-stack craftsmanship with operational rigor, having implemented observability, continuous delivery and analytics pipelines using modern cloud tooling. Now volunteering as a mentor for small businesses and charities, he helps organisations translate digital strategy into measurable outcomes. Based in Ammanford, Wales, he is comfortable shifting between low-level optimisation (memory-efficient algorithms from earlier Java work) and strategic technology leadership.
13 years of coding experience
27 years of employment as a software developer
BSc Computer Science, BSc Computer Science at Brunel University of London
Welsh
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (49)
env9
stripe9
stripe-payments9
forum9
stripe-api9
discourse9
upload-file9
stubbing8
rails8
rspec8
javascript8
postgresql8
ruby7
mhealth7
filestack7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
ljkbennett/stub_env
Nov 2014 - Jun 2019
RSpec helper for stubbing ENV values
Contributions:24 commits, 10 PRs, 19 pushes in 4 years 8 months
stubbingrailsrubyrspecenv
ItsJuice/juicebox
Apr 2016 - Apr 2017
Our elixir jukebox
Contributions:51 commits, 47 PRs, 112 pushes in 1 year
elixir-langelixirjukebox
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