My name is Ben. I'm currently a Software Engineer at GoCardless. I mostly work on the scalability of our internal payment-processing systems.
I currently use a lot of
- Ruby / Rails / Sorbet
- Postgres
- Prometheus / Grafana / PromQL
- BigQuery / Looker
- Kubernetes
- GitHub actions
In a past life I used a lot of
- Drupal / PHP
- Python
- (S)CSS
- HTML
I've also used some
- JavaScript
- XSLT
- Docker / Ansible / Vagrant
- CircleCI
- Grunt / Gulp
I'm interested in
- Translating complex problems into simple solutions
- Robustness and scalability
- Boring technology
I'm also pretty good at
- Writing
- Speaking
- Teaching