Ben Watson

At Ascensor I worked with many clients, both large and small. One of my greatest achievements while working there was architect and implementing a training and management software solution for a large PLC client. While working at Ascensor I mainly did backend development using Laravel but would also keep myself familiar with frontend and website performance optimisation.

For the past few months I’ve been working as a freelancer for various companies mainly working on PHP ecommerce platforms built using Laravel and Magento. I’ve also be responsible for managing and maintaining AWS infrastructure and improving security for websites along with increasing their page speed performance.

In September I worked at Trivago’s headquarters in Germany for two weeks. To earn my place at Trivago Tech Camp I had to write a data pipeline using Node.js and demonstrate my knowledge of software design and the ability to write software that is easy to manage and extend in the future.

While there me and my team built a tool in go and Express that allowed teams to write their articles using markdown using Google docs, commit and have it automatically export to a HTML format via a pipeline that made use of our application.

At parallax I worked as a backend developer mainly working with Laravel applications but also had some experience dealing with infrastructure, Typescript, Vue, Svelte and Ionic apps.

While there I worked on various large client projects and got stuck in to many mobile apps. I also spent some of my time learning how their CI/CD processes worked.