Hi, my name is

Benjiman.

I'm an Irish based software engineer and football coach

I love creating efficient and useful things that people enjoy.

About Me

A passionate, charismatic and hard working person who always strives for better things. Helping people to achieve what they desire is a strength of mine and through this my teamwork skills has been greatly enhanced. Having confidence as a trait means that wading into the unknown is exciting and anticipated.
* Here are a few technologies I've been working with recently:
  • Ruby
  • Hasicorp Suite(Nomad, Consul, Vault)
  • Jenkins
  • Python
  • Ansible
  • Nix
  • Hugo

Experience

Software Developer - BrowserStack
Aug 2021 - July 2023

My first role at BrowserStack was in the Production Engineering Team.

  • Handling support and ops tickets that affect customer experience.
  • Diagnose and solve problems with devices in production/regression environment.
  • Help support other departments with knowledge sharing and common questions about production issues.
  • Take part in sprint planning, retrospective meetings and various other agile activities to help keep our work environment agile.

After some time, I moved internally to the Mobile Infrastructure Team.

  • Handling support and ops tickets that affect developer experience.
  • Diagnose and solve problems with machines in production/regression/staging environments.
  • Provision new machines to production environment.
  • Help support other departments with knowledge sharing and common questions about company infrastructure.
  • Take part in sprint planning, retrospective meetings and various other agile activities to help keep our work environment agile.
Manual/Automation Tester - Davy
Apr 2020 - Sept 2021

I worked at Davy for 6 months as part of my University Work Placement module.

  • Responsible for the planning, design and development of the new automated compatibility testing framework.
  • Responsible for the planning, design and development of the new automated compatibility testing framework.
  • Supporting in a number of core functional releases across Linux and web-based systems.
  • Participating SCRUM meetings, sprint review and poker planning sessions.
  • Responsible for Test planning, design and execution of key business initiatives.
Manual Tester - Fenergo
June 2019 - Sept 2019

I worked for Fenergo as part of a University pilot program to get students extra work experience that is not part of their degree.

  • Reviewing, writing, and running manual test suites via Excel and Microsoft Test Manager.

  • Attending and partaking in Agile based team meetings with multi time-zone teams.

  • Worked closely with project owners for accurate defect reporting and to ensure accurate testing requirements and guidelines

  • Participated in the Annual company Hackathon.

    Entry was a live analytics Microsoft Teams bot that gives managers accurate and up to date information on projects being discussed in daily or weekly agile meetings. Information was retrieved directly from TFS using Python and Microsoft’s WIQL

Education

2015 - 2021
B.Sc. Degree in Computer Applications and Software Engineering
Dublin City University

Grade:

  • 2nd Class Honours Grade 2

For my final year project I created a multi-lingual, multi-platform personal assistant that uses FaaS and PaaS with Docker, Python 3 and Rasa NLU framework to deliver daily information in the language of the user, distinguished by the users typed language, straight to their messaging app.

Projects and Other Work

Adaptive Football Coaching
HTML/CSS
Adaptive Football Coaching
A place where I give free football coaching content away for free.
Website
Capo Crimini
Ruby Sinatra HTML/CSS
Capo Crimini
Web store front for a new clothing brand for a Twitch Streamer. Site was Templated and scoffolded by Ruby and Sinatra, initially built and deployed using Heroku.
Website
Young & Lazy Apparel
Ruby Sinatra HTML/CSS
Young & Lazy Apparel
A small startup clothing brand aimed at Young Entrepreneurs. Site was Templated and scoffolded by Ruby and Sinatra, is currently built and deployed using Heroku.
Website

Volunteering

Nurture Africa Ambassador
During my first year in University, I took on the role as Nurture Africa's Ambassador and travelled to Uganda to see the fantastic work they do within the community. I am going back in July/August 2023 to see further improvements to the area. Click for more details.
Football Coaching
I dedicate many hours a week planning and executing training sessions and passing along football knowledge to players in Wicklow and District Schoolboys/girls League

Get in Touch

My inbox is always open. Whether you have a question or just want to say hi, I’ll try my best to get back to you!