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Hello, I'm Ben

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

I lead engineering teams, set technical direction, and build production systems for complex organisations. My work connects executive priorities with the architectural and delivery decisions required to ship reliable software.

Leading engineering, architecture & deliveryMelbourne, AustraliaTechnical strategy & AI systems

Focus areas

Engineering Leadership

Technical direction, delivery accountability, and team growth.

Enterprise Architecture

Architecture that holds up under scale and governance.

AI & Platform Systems

Production AI systems, platform design, and operational judgement.

Technical Strategy

Turning strategic intent into clear technical decisions.

Cloud & Infrastructure

Scalable, operable platforms and dependable 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 — perspectives on engineering leadership, architecture, and building software that holds up in production.

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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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