Ben Wallman
From startups to industry giants, I've built software that scales. I bring a decade of expertise into writing code, leading teams and building products.
I’m currently looking for somewhere to make a long-term impact, shaping an organisation’s culture and technology for the better.
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Professional Experience
I've built products from scratch, led multiple teams and architected software used by millions of people.
After a decade of consulting and contracting I'm now looking for a long-term role where I can make a real impact. I work best in a malleable yet challenging environment where I can contiunuously learn and help others grow.
Financial Times
SEO Developer
Improved the SEO of the FT.com website. Worked with the SEO team to improve the discoverability of the site and Core Web Vitals across the organisation.
Wazi
Co-Founder & CTO
Co Founder, created an MVP, interviewed prospective customers and designing an international payments gateway infrastructure.
Antler
Entrepreneur
Attempted to found a company. Interviewing customers / users, business validation, technical consultancy.
Tempo
Tech Lead
Led a team including 6 software developers, building a recruitment platform with 100,000s of users.
M&S
Tech Lead
Led a project discovery team to boost multi channel revenue. Architecture, business validation, creation of a front end component library.
IATA
Tech Lead (Backend)
Led the backend team for a Covid travel application, built the prototype and then the following iterations, mentored junior developers.
SkyRocket
Founder
Founder, created an online platform for organisations to manage career progression. Full stack web application design / build, heavy use of AWS.
The Lego Group
Full Stack Developer
Worked in the Lego VIP team, re-architecturing the platform, building out a POS system and refining their front end / DevOps approach.
Financial Times
Full Stack Developer
Worked on the ScoutAsia project, crafting a serverless ETL to take in various business data sources and combine them into a queryable interface.
DAZN
Serverless Developer
User Accounts team: The user settings pages and the largest migration ever of salesforce users, onto an on premise (Cognito) solution
Toolstation
Front End Developer
Redesign of the tool station site using PHP and Docker. Rebuilding of the website into a new application.
Halfords
DevOps Engineer
Developed and updated their infrastructure, creating a Git : SVN linking to modernise their approach. Created a VueJS component interface.
Taylor & Francis
Full Stack Developer
Created an academic publishing submission platform for 1000s of journals, working in an agile Full Stack team.
AND Digital
Full Stack Developer
Consulting work for a variety of customers, leading technical discovery, working in agile projects and building full stack web products.
YogaClicks
Website Administrator / Developer
Website administrator turned front end developer, built a variety of dynamic JS features including a “Yoga Map”.
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