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Hello, I'm Ben

I'm a Head of Engineering · CTO based in Melbourne, Australia.

I lead engineering teams, shape technical strategy, and design production systems for complex organisations. My work sits between enterprise architecture, executive decision-making, and the hands-on detail required to ship reliable software.

Building open source in my spare timeMelbourne, AustraliaAI & platform systems

Focus areas

Engineering Leadership

Team direction, delivery discipline, and mentorship.

Enterprise Architecture

Architecture that holds up under scale and governance.

AI & Platform Systems

Production AI applications and platform design.

Technical Strategy

Turning strategic intent into technical direction.

Cloud & Infrastructure

Scalable, operable systems and delivery paths.

System Design

Pragmatic systems built for reliability and change.

Latest writing08

July 9, 20269 min read

Scaling an Engineering Team Without Scaling Chaos: Standards, Autonomy, and Delivery

When a team grows, decision-making breaks before the code does. Scale decisions — encode judgement into standards, paved paths, and culture so autonomy stays safe.

Engineering LeadershipTeamDeliveryCulture

7 more articles — notes on engineering leadership, architecture, and the craft of shipping reliable software.

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Current open source projects05

Keldr

A voice-to-action assistant for everyday work apps. Speak what needs to happen, review the drafted action, then let Keldr execute across the tools you already use.

TauriSvelteRustVoice AI

pgmem

A Postgres-native plugin and go memory layer for long-running AI agents, with temporal memory, retrieval, compaction, and clear separation between execution state and durable knowledge.

PythonPostgreSQLpgvectorAI Agents

3 more projects — infrastructure, developer tooling, and AI systems built in the open.

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