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Ben Ralton

Senior DevOps Engineer

Cloud engineering, Full Stack Development & DevOps

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Ben Ralton

Senior DevOps Engineer with 10+ years in tech, spanning cloud infrastructure, full-stack development, and team leadership. I specialise in designing and building scalable AWS environments using Terraform, and streamlining delivery through robust CI/CD pipelines.

What sets me apart is the breadth — I've been the sole developer building prototypes from scratch, the tech lead hiring and managing cross-functional teams, and the DevOps engineer migrating legacy on-prem systems to the cloud. I bridge the gap between writing the code and running it in production.

Starting as an apprentice at BMW while earning a first-class Computer Science degree, I've since worked across automotive manufacturing, carbon restoration, healthtech, and laboratory asset management — building and scaling systems at every stage.

  • AWS
  • Terraform
  • System Design
  • CI/CD
  • Team Leadership
  • Full Stack

Skills

CI/CD

  • Gitlab CI
  • Bitbucket Pipelines
  • GitHub Actions
  • CircleCi

Cloud Platforms

  • Azure
  • Supabase
  • Vercel
  • AWS

Databases

  • Oracle SQL
  • MySQL
  • MsSQL
  • Redis
  • Postgres

DevOps

  • Axiom
  • Betterstack
  • Grafana
  • Prometheus
  • Docker
  • Terraform

Languages & Frameworks

  • Typescript
  • Bash
  • Rust
  • Python
  • Nextjs
  • React

Soft Skills

  • Incident Management
  • Stakeholder Management
  • Team Leadership

Tools & Workflow

  • Agile Development
  • Miro
  • Notion
  • Confluence
  • Jira

GitHub Activity

914 contributions in the last year

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Projects

BMAD-Manager (In Progress)

BMAD Manager is a Tauri desktop application that provides a visual interface for managing AI-assisted software development workflows.

It integrates with Claude CLI to spawn terminal sessions with specialised agent personas, visualises project workflow phases (planning → design → implementation), displays sprint/story status in a kanban board, and manages git worktrees for parallel story development.

Built with Rust backend and Svelte frontend, it turns the BMAD methodology into a GUI-driven experience for developers working with AI coding assistants.

Built using the BMAD process and Claude to gain a better understanding of the BMAD workflow process.

Rust
Tauri
Svelte
TypeScript
SQLite
WebdriverIO
AI-Assisted Development

Experience

  • Senior DevOps Engineer

    LIO Health

    Jan 2026 - Present

    Responsible for managing and architecting AWS cloud environments for a healthtech platform. Designing infrastructure as code with Terraform, building and maintaining GitLab CI pipelines, and designing scalable cloud architectures to support the platform's growth.

  • Lead Developer

    Kallion

    Sep 2024 - Present

    Built a laboratory asset management system from the ground up as the sole developer, designing the full system architecture and tech stack — NextJs, ShadCN, NextAuth, Drizzle, and PostgresDB. As the project has grown, now leading a team of three, overseeing development and maintaining the architecture. Deployed via Vercel with Supabase for database hosting, using GitHub for source control with PR-based deployments across staging and production environments.

  • DevOps Engineer

    M3 EU

    Aug 2024 - Jan 2026

    Migrated from on-premise Linux and Windows servers to AWS ECS, RDS, and EC2 — fully implemented in Terraform for disaster recovery and review control. Replaced legacy monitoring systems with BetterStack and Axiom, and introduced incident management playbooks for cross-team response and escalation.

  • Technical Lead

    Airseed Technologies

    Jan 2024 - Jan 2026

    Built an MVP for a carbon project assessment platform by end of February 2024, then stayed on to scale the project. Hired and managed a cross-functional team of five — two full-stack developers, a Python data engineer, a DevOps engineer, and a UX/UI designer. Responsible for system design, unblocking developers, and managing stakeholder expectations across sprint cycles.

  • Full Stack Developer

    M3 EU

    Sep 2020 - Aug 2024

    Built and maintained microservices across a diverse tech stack — from legacy ASP.NET and C# with MSSQL, to newer services in TypeScript and React with Postgres. Worked with frameworks including Create React App and Next.js. Operated in an agile environment using the Atlassian suite, with Docker images built via CircleCI pipelines.

  • DevOps Engineer

    BMW (UK) Manufacturing LTD

    May 2018 - Sep 2020

    Formed a new agile team to design and implement a global monitoring and data analytics platform using Splunk. Responsible for designing the scalable server architecture, implementing Bitbucket repositories and Jenkins pipelines, and building custom onboarding and alerting solutions in Python and Linux Shell.

Education

  • Cloud Practitioner

    AWS

    Dec 2023 - Present

  • BSc Computer Science (1st)

    Oxford Brookes University

    Sep 2014 - Jun 2017

Get in Touch

Have a question or want to work together? Send me a message and I'll get back to you as soon as possible.