Ben Lovell
Senior Software Engineer at Tower.dev
Berlin, Germany
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Top SchoolBen Lovell is a Senior Software Engineer based in Berlin with 12 years of experience building resilient backend systems and shipping full-stack features across startups and scale-ups. He has a strong functional-programming bent—notably using Clojure/ClojureScript—and deep experience designing microservices, offline-first sync, and CI/CD improvements that cut release cycles from weeks to minutes. At Pitch he led efforts on an offline-first sync system and cross-team documentation, and at Geeny and Red Pineapple he architected Kafka-driven microservices and performant ad-bidding APIs that substantially reduced costs. Ben combines hands-on implementation with technical coordination and mentorship, and is actively seeking freelance contracts where he can tackle data engineering, architecture-heavy challenges, or functional programming problems. A practical problem-solver, he often focuses on developer productivity and reproducible environments to accelerate teams, not just individual features.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) (Hons) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) (Hons) Computer Science at University of St AndrewsReading School
English, German
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Github Skills (120)
nix10
windows10
bash10
nixos10
linux10
shell10
cli10
console10
nixpkgs10
bsd10
android10
macos10
documentation10
command-line10
javascript9
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
socksy/nixconf
Jun 2024 - Jun 2026
Contributions:140 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years
socksy/doom-emacs
May 2019 - Sep 2022
An Emacs configuration for the stubborn martian vimmer
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 5 months
org-modeemacs-configurationmartianemacsemacs-lisp
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