Building software with a relentless focus on the end user.
I'm Ben — a software engineer based in UK. I embed with founding teams and product orgs to take ideas from the first commit to real users. Eight years of enterprise work. Sole technical founder behind OnlyScrans. Helped lead PLT Marketplace from zero to 150k users.
Obsessed with the end outcome— not the ticket.
Great software engineers don't silo themselves on a single story. They stay close to the user outcome, use observability to see what actually happens in production, and connect the full flow — from intent to interface to the systems behind it — so the work ships as a coherent solution, not a collection of merged tickets.
Forward-deployed
I connect directly with end users to ensure the software correctly solves their problem — then ship it with your team.
Founding engineer
Zero-to-one builds. I take a sketch, a Figma, or a half-formed thesis and turn it into a working product in users’ hands.
Product judgement
I help shape the brief, simplify scope, and bring a strong opinion on what will land for users. Engineering is the easy part — deciding what to build is where I add the most value.
Mobile & web
React, React Native, TypeScript, Node. Eight years of production work across iOS, Android, and the web.
- ReleaseStepsHelping mobile development teams improve their release process
- Bluebox DigitalConsultancy — software, AI & digital
- GCP & AILearning the latest AI cloud technologies from Google Cloud
“Excellent attitude to work, technically very knowledgeable, a good team player. Helped us set up the whole project and took the team through a successful launch of our Marketplace App. I'd recommend him as a valuable asset to any company.”
I started as a developer. I became a product engineer.
Eight years of shipping production code gave me a strong technical foundation — and with LLMs and AI in the workflow, implementation is less of a bottleneck than it used to be. What still moves the needle is product judgement: asking “why are we building this?” before I open the editor, tightening the brief, and delivering something end-to-end that solves a real problem for real users — not just another feature merge.