Ollie Bennett
Engineering Manager at ohgoodlord
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolOllie Bennett is an Engineering Manager with 13 years of hands-on experience building and scaling product-focused platforms from MVP to production. As the first full-time engineer and later CTO at acasă, he built hybrid mobile apps and architected the Ruby on Rails backend "Keystone" that powers end-to-end utility provisioning and payments. He previously delivered customised enterprise software as a technical consultant at HP Autonomy and contributes to open source—improving Android SMS gateway functionality and hardening Rails code quality in notable projects. Based in London, he blends technical leadership with pragmatic engineering, mentoring teams and owning infrastructure and product delivery. A First Class MSci in Physics with Theoretical Physics informs his analytical approach and attention to correctness in system design. He’s comfortable moving between mobile, backend, and infrastructure work, with a knack for turning messy integration problems into reliable, user-facing services.
13 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
MSci Hons, Physics with Theoretical Physics, First Class, MSci Hons, Physics with Theoretical Physics, First Class at University of Nottingham
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Github Skills (27)
npm10
mobile-development10
code-standards10
rails10
sms10
java10
ruby10
mobile-application10
javas10
android10
sms-messages10
nodejs10
coding-style10
ruby-on-rails10
code-formatting10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
helpyio/helpy
Feb 2016 - Jul 2016
Helpy is a modern, open source helpdesk customer support application. Features include knowledgebase, community discussions and support tickets integrated with email.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:121 commits, 34 PRs, 103 comments in 5 months
Contributions summary:Ollie primarily focused on code style and best practice improvements within the Ruby on Rails codebase, resolving RuboCop violations across numerous files. They updated code to reflect current Rails versions by replacing deprecated methods such as `before_filter` with `before_action`. The user also addressed issues related to variable shadowing, string interpolation, and parentheses use, maintaining code quality. Additionally, they contributed to database query optimization efforts.
e-mailhelpdeskknowledge-baseforumticketing
ushahidi/SMSSync
Dec 2012 - Mar 2013
SMS gateway for Android powered phones
Role in this project:Mobile Developer (Android)
Mobile Developer (Android)Contributions:13 commits in 2 months
Contributions summary:Ollie contributed to the Android SMS application, SMSSync, by implementing several key features and bug fixes. They improved the application's functionality by adding regular expression support for message filtering and enhancing error messaging. Moreover, the user made improvements to the application's background processes, specifically related to Wi-Fi management and the handling of SMS sync services. These changes demonstrate a focus on improving the core messaging functionality of the app.
androidsms-gateway
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