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Ben
Ebsworth
Software, platform & hardware engineer · AI-native · Melbourne, Australia
Self-driven engineer who builds across the whole stack of computing — from electrical and embedded hardware, up through distributed software platforms, to the product and developer experience on top. An electrical & computer systems background grounds how I design and build; years operating large-scale platforms shape how I make it reliable; and I work AI-native, treating LLMs and agents as a core part of the toolchain rather than a bolt-on. This place is where I explore new ideas and sharpen my ability to take creations from concept to production. I'm glad you've stopped by.
- 10+
- years building
- 9
- certifications
- 5
- talks given
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01Career & education
Thetrackrecord
Work · AtlassianDecember 2023 — presentSenior Software Engineer · Atlassian
Working in the Micros platform team — responsible for the running and support of Atlassian products and services on top of AWS. Building and operating the internal platform, developer tooling, and orchestration that thousands of Atlassian services deploy and run on.
- Go
- TypeScript
- Kubernetes
- EKS
- GKE
- Istio
- Prometheus
- CI/CD
- Spinnaker
- Work · AtlassianOctober 2020 — December 2023
Senior Site Reliability Engineer · Atlassian
Site reliability engineering across Atlassian's platform — incident response and root-cause analysis, defining SLIs/SLOs, and building the observability for large-scale, high-throughput services.
- Java
- Spring Boot
- Go
- SRE
- SLI/SLO
- Observability
- CI/CD
- EC2
- SQS
Work · DigioSeptember 2018 — October 2020Senior DevOps/FullStack Engineer · Digio
Leading the development and deployment of a set of production grade platform components on GCP. Facilitating adoption and consumption of the platform through a series of developer tooling and frameworks to streamline onboarding. Delivered the first production-grade GKE/GCP based platform for one of Australia's biggest banks.
- Istio
- Kubernetes
- GKE
- GCP
- Fluentbit
- Jenkins
- Docker
- Prometheus
- Python
- Spinnaker
- OAuth2
- JWT
- Java
- Groovy
- Go
- SpringBoot
- Postgres
- Distributed Tracing
- Work · DigioApril 2018 — September 2018
DevOps/FullStack Engineer · Digio
Building highly automated and robust production grade platforms on top of Kubernetes. Utilising service-mesh technologies such as Istio to enable sophisticated microservice architectures. Enabling next-generation monitoring/observability capabilities, CI/CD pipelines, and security practices. Led the delivery of Australia's first Istio deployment into production.
- Istio
- Kubernetes
- Elasticsearch
- AWS
- Fluentbit
- Jenkins
- Docker
- Prometheus
- Python
- Dex
- OAuth2
- Okta
- Java
- Groovy
- SpringBoot
Work · TelstraAugust 2016 — April 2018DevOps/Full-Stack Engineer · Telstra
Leading the build and development of a small private cloud environment (4000 vCPU, 4 PB storage), as well as building the application layer on top which carried out large-scale message ingestion and transformation (capable of over 300k EPS).
- OpenStack
- Kafka
- Jenkins
- Elasticsearch
- Ceph
- Ansible
- Kafka Streams
- Prometheus
- Python
- Spark
- Java
- S3
- Work · TelstraFebruary 2015 — July 2016
Graduate Engineer · Telstra
Primarily working with networking/telecommunication technologies — Cisco, Juniper, Palo Alto, and Checkpoint, and the respective CLI/GUI/automation tooling. Responsible for building out a range of small automation tools using Python and the Python SSH library Paramiko.
- Python
- Ansible
- Paramiko
- Cisco
- Juniper
- TCP/IP
Education · Monash UniversityNovember 2014B.Eng. Electrical & Computer Systems Engineering (Honours) · Monash University
Thorough curriculum providing deep experimental and hands-on experience with the design, build, and analysis of complex real-time systems, embedded electronics, and analogue electronics, alongside a foundational knowledge in computer science.
- Analogue Electronics
- C++
- RTOS & Embedded
- FPGA Design
- Optimisation
- MATLAB
- Telecommunications
- Education · Monash University2009 — 2013
B.Sc. Applied Mathematics & Experimental Physics · Monash University
In-depth exposure to low-level scientific theory in physics — quantum mechanics, particle physics, condensed matter, and cosmology. The applied mathematics major focused on statistical and computational analysis with strong coverage of partial and ordinary differential equations, with heavy emphasis on experimentation and report writing.
- Partial DEs
- Ordinary DEs
- Statistics
- Linear Algebra
- Condensed Matter
- Quantum Mechanics
- Particle Physics
02Verified credentials
Thetrophyshelf
9 active certifications across the three clouds & the cloud-native ecosystem.
Amazon Web Services
4 certs
Google Cloud
3 certs
Cloud Native Computing Foundation
2 certs
03On the record
Talks&speaking
Google Cloud Summit
▶ RecordingSydney, Australia — September 2018
Demonstrating Istio in action with a fullstack application and carrying out an example continuous delivery workflow via canary releases.
Container Camp
▶ RecordingSydney, Australia — July 2019
Overview of the current Kubernetes-centric ecosystem of CI/CD tools, with an end-to-end practical example of implementing a feature-rich workflow in Tekton.
CNCF | Kubernetes Forum
▶ RecordingSydney, Australia — December 2019
Advanced session — "Open Policy Agent Templating and Testing". Exploring in depth the pathways to productionising OPA policy and gaining confidence through robust end-to-end integration testing.
04Toolkit
▸Go▸TypeScript▸JavaScript▸Python▸Java▸Spring Boot▸C / C++▸React▸Next.js▸Node.js▸Microservices▸Distributed Systems▸Event-Driven Architecture▸System Design▸gRPC▸REST APIs▸GraphQL▸TDD▸AI-Native▸LLMs▸AI Agents▸RAG▸MCP▸Anthropic & OpenAI APIs▸Prompt Engineering▸Embeddings / Vector Search▸Embedded Systems▸RTOS▸FPGA▸Analogue & Digital Electronics▸Signal Processing▸Kubernetes▸EKS▸GKE▸Istio▸Docker▸Spinnaker▸AWS▸GCP▸Terraform▸CI/CD▸SRE▸SLI/SLO▸Observability▸Prometheus▸Grafana▸PostgreSQL▸DynamoDB▸Kafka▸Go▸TypeScript▸JavaScript▸Python▸Java▸Spring Boot▸C / C++▸React▸Next.js▸Node.js▸Microservices▸Distributed Systems▸Event-Driven Architecture▸System Design▸gRPC▸REST APIs▸GraphQL▸TDD▸AI-Native▸LLMs▸AI Agents▸RAG▸MCP▸Anthropic & OpenAI APIs▸Prompt Engineering▸Embeddings / Vector Search▸Embedded Systems▸RTOS▸FPGA▸Analogue & Digital Electronics▸Signal Processing▸Kubernetes▸EKS▸GKE▸Istio▸Docker▸Spinnaker▸AWS▸GCP▸Terraform▸CI/CD▸SRE▸SLI/SLO▸Observability▸Prometheus▸Grafana▸PostgreSQL▸DynamoDB▸Kafka
05The lab
I keep an interactive lab of small visual essays — each effect is a working simulation, parameterised, playable, and shareable. They are the working sketches behind many of my posts: oscillators, attractors, filters, modulation, signal integrity. Drop in, drag the controls, watch what happens.
Try it in the lab
All effects →AM Modulation
engineeringCarrier, message, modulated signal, and spectrum — envelope, sidebands, overmodulation.
communicationsmodulationrfBand Structure
physicsNearly-free electron E-k diagram with Brillouin zone gaps.
condensed mattersolid stateBloch Sphere
physicsQubit state precessing on the Bloch sphere under a magnetic Hamiltonian.
quantumqmBode Plotter
engineeringFrequency response of 1st–4th order filters — LP/HP/BP/Notch with animated pole movement.
dspfilters