Ben Simms
Lead DevOps Engineer at Artificial Labs
Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolBen Simms is a Lead DevOps Engineer based in Germany with 11 years of experience building reliable infrastructure and developer tooling across research and industry. He blends practical DevOps leadership at Artificial Labs with a strong research background in software-defined networking and GPU-accelerated networking utilities from Lancaster University. Passionate about functional languages, type systems, and compiler design, he brings a language-oriented approach to systems engineering and even advocates running Rust on microcontrollers. His career spans hands-on research roles and student-led cybersecurity leadership, reflecting both deep technical curiosity and community engagement. Known for translating experimental research into production-ready solutions, he excels at bridging low-level systems work with scalable operational practice.
11 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at Lancaster University
Github Skills (119)
python10
vim10
embedded10
computer-science10
haskell10
audio-effect10
calculator10
javascript10
async10
brightness10
linux10
nushell10
emacs-lisp10
skopeo10
emacs10
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
simmsb/emacs-mac-31
Jul 2024 - Jul 2026
Emacs mac with emacs 31 merged in
Contributions:44 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years
emacs
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