Simon Bennett
Senior Engineer II, Storage at DigitalOcean
Norwich, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolSimon Bennett is a Senior Engineer II focused on storage at DigitalOcean with 14 years of experience building resilient, production-grade systems. He founded SnapShooter, a backup service for DigitalOcean droplets and volumes, and led its acquisition by DigitalOcean in 2023, then joined the company to continue evolving the product. A specialist in Event Sourcing and CQRS, he runs consultancy work helping teams modernise architectures and apply these patterns to legacy systems. He has hands-on leadership experience running distributed engineering teams and shipping SaaS products from idea to exit. Based in Norwich, he combines entrepreneurial grit with pragmatic engineering, often translating complex domain models into auditable, reliable event-driven systems. Beyond product work, he teaches and mentors engineering teams on the operational and design nuances of event-sourced architectures.
14 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bsc (Hons) Web Development, Bsc (Hons) Web Development at Swansea Metropolitan UniversityNotre Dame High School Norwich
Github Skills (173)
api-client10
terraform10
paas10
paypal10
digitalocean-api10
tencent10
digitalocean10
laravel10
api10
sdk10
payment10
azure10
kubernetes10
stripe-payments10
saas10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
SmoothPhp/EventSourcing
Oct 2015 - Sep 2017
Contributions:11 commits, 1 PR, 5 pushes in 1 year 11 months
dddevent-sourcingphpcqrs-escqrs
SmoothPhp/CommandBus
Aug 2015 - Apr 2016
Contributions:15 commits, 9 pushes, 2 branches in 8 months
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