Ben D. Email & Phone Number

London, England, United Kingdom

• Working in the Platform team, working on maintaining and implementing all RustServices, as well as optimisations of existing Python services.
• Created Rust service for running background jobs. Integrating with existing jobmanagement logic, as well as providing automatic dependency injection of databaseconnections and deserialisation of job parameters.
• Lead fortnightly talks for the engineering team and company. Topics range from testingand best practices to competitors and outage post-mortems.
• Took on the responsibility to mentor and lead RegTech engineers, teaching them bestpractices and providing them with peer programming and review opportunities. Thishas resulted in engineers moving over into the.
• Refactored background job handling logic to reliably identify non-responsive jobs andimprove job parameter handling and deserialisation. This also implemented checkingjob declarations at startup ensuring any.
• Migrated existing data ingestion service from a 2-year-old nightly release to stableRust. This required replacing an unmaintained framework with an alternative that stillmet requirements.

London, England, United Kingdom

Worked in the R&D Team, working on migrating an internal support service to Kubernetes and rewriting a core media layout engine in Rust.

Durham, England, United Kingdom

• Maintain and develop the Union’s technological capabilities and requirements.
• Manage the Union’s Google Workspace services
• Maintain the Union’s WordPress website

Durham, England, United Kingdom

Birmingham, England, United Kingdom

• Intern working on modernising and expanding a service allowing customers to upload files and link them to GitHub Issues and Zendesk Tickets.
• Migrated file storage to use Google Cloud Storage instead of local storage, thus allowing removal of old backup methods and serving download links with built-in expiry.
• Removed reliance on NGINX for serving static files. This was in preparation for deploying on Kubernetes.
• Rewrote integrations with GitHub and Zendesk to use newer authentication methods, as well as interacting via objects instead of passing raw JSON. Following this I refactored the commenting logic to use these new.
• Migrated service from isolated GitHub repository to a SRE shared GitLab monorepo. This also involved creating GitLab CI pipelines for running tests and linters, as well as for deploying the service to various.
• Split up deployment secrets to give services access to only the services they require. This also involved removing the need for multiple copies of secrets locally while developing.

Birmingham, England, United Kingdom

• Software Engineer at StarLeafInterned in the Cloud R&D Team, working on internal monitoring and tooling.
• Created a Salt provisioned Grafana container to display per colo dashboards. These presented calling statistics such as customer feedback scores as well as resource usage for each machine. Data was retrieved from.
• Refactored stats gathering and chart generation for the internal statistics pages. This standardised how statistics were requested and how the charts were retrieved while reducing the amount of repeated code. These.
• Expanded Salt certificate generation for containers to have the same functionality as the certificate generation for machine images.
• Created landing page for 3rd party tools, such as Grafana, which did LDAP based authentication for those tools.
• Converted internal customer/log analysis tool to use Redis for caching results.

Watford, England, United Kingdom

• Interned in the Cloud R&D Team, with a focus on the integration of 3rd party software/plugins (such as Outlook 365 & Slack) with the StarLeaf cloud.
• Testing lead for all 3rd party integrations.
• Rewrote existing test plans and developed new ones to ensure a high standard of quality in shipped code.
• In conjunction with the team lead, responsible for the configuration of the global beta cloud, such as coordinating the versions under test.
• Coordinated testing new versions for all cloud components in addition to 3rd party integrations during periods of planned absence by the team lead.
• Trained other interns in testing both the StarLeaf cloud in general as well as specifically the 3rd party integrations.

Bsc Mathematics And Computer Science, Natural Sciences

Third Year Modules: Analysis, Geometry, Operations Research, Parallel Scientific Computing and Security Engineering Second Year Modules.

A-Level, A*, A, A, A

Gcse