Ben Deavin

• Team Leadership: Overseeing three product development squads in the 'member experience' space, accountable for core delivery metrics and cross-squad communication
• People Management: Managing a mix of managers, leads and individual contributors, mentoring, coaching and guiding their career development
• Team Building: Responsible for hiring and building new squads, establishing ways of working and quickly getting to a place of high performance
• Technical Leadership: Frontend community lead, bringing specialists from multiple squads together to share experience and shape our technical direction in the frontend space
• Performance Optimization: Responsible for frontend performance, establishing tooling and budgets for monitoring Core Web Vitals across multiple platforms and prioritising improvements
• Strategic Planning: Key contributor to strategy, at multiple levels including group architecture and both tech and product strategy and project planning
• Technical Delivery: Lead the delivery of several new microservices including rebuilding search capability from the ground up with OpenSearch (formally ElasticSearch)

• Tech Lead: Technical lead on a team for a large public sector project, working with a mixture of contractors, civil servants and consultants. Building a microservices platform and case working system
• Cloud Architect: Designing and implementing a scalable architecture for a large IoT project with up to 200,000 connected devices running on Google Cloud Platform
• Lead Android Developer: Team lead for a fast moving technology start up, taking a complex app from concept to production in four months, managing a scrum team of five developers
• Software Engineer: Various projects working as a full stack developer, working with clients to gather and manage requirements, and working with skilled teams (both on and offshore) delivering excellent quality and timely releases
• Wearable Technology Expert: Working with numerous clients helping them see the potential of wearable technology and developing numerous prototypes with Google Glass, Android Wear and more

• Web Developer: .NET web developer, working on the Smarta Business Builder, a SaaS portal integrating a number of third party products into one service
• Full Stack Development: Working on all aspects of the project, including database, server-side code, partner APIs, security, and front end HTML, CSS and JavaScript
• System Design: Designed various parts of the system, including leading a ground-up construction of an email messaging centre that gave all products a unified platform to reliably send and track emails
• Product Improvement: Identified ways to improve the product from design and user experience changes to adding new features and functionality and improving performance

• Software Developer: Infrastructure and middleware as part of the work placement scheme
• Development: Designing, developing, testing and deploying tools to help with messaging
• System Deployment: Deployed application on distributed UNIX based systems
• Project Ownership: Took ownership of a major project from start through to support

University of Bath | 2006 - 2010