I love learning, problem solving, having fun with my peers, and making great software. This passion has driven me to successfully deliver impactful software systems for enterprises, start-ups, and hyperscale clouds, always balancing innovation with practical trade-offs. Some of my current interests include clean architecture, Rust, Linux internals and Kubernetes.
Since graduating in software engineering in 2003, I’ve been professionally designing and building software systems, contributing to industries such as government, ASX top 50 companies, hyperscaler cloud providers, and e-commerce. Notable projects include designing a distributed data processing engine for international collaboration and developing huge scale telemetry systems for retail operations. Having grown up in the age of the web, Linux and Java, and thanks to many years of consulting I’ve worn many hats such as; frontend and backend dev, full stack engineer, architect, tech lead, service designer, devops engineer, data engineer, network engineer, …
Academically, I hold three degrees; a Master of Cyber Security, a Master of IT and a Bachelor of Software Engineering. One of the most satisfying things I’ve done during my career is nand2tetris
by the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, designing a functioning 16-bit CPU literally from NAND gates up. This pilgrimage has cemented my belief in the importance of understanding first principles and opened up the world of low-level computing topics including OS internals, binary reversing and exploit development.
Contacts
- Email ben at bencode dot io
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