About

Ben Barber is a highly skilled and experienced data-driven trader, investor, and software engineer from Cambridge, UK.

Throughout his career, Ben has worked on and led a variety of software engineering teams in industries including fintech, insurance, IoT, and publishing.

Currently, Ben serves as a director and investor in multiple SMEs, in addition to working on freelance software projects for select clients. His expertise spans a wide range of programming languages and frameworks, including Ruby, Ruby on Rails, Elixir, Phoenix, Python, Flask, JavaScript, Typescript, and React JS.

Background

Ben’s passion for the internet and programming started from a very young age, during the time Geocities was one of the most popular sites on the internet, websites were composed of table based layouts and the only connection option available was available was a painfully slow dial-up connection.

Throughout the years Ben has worked across a range of industries such as Fintech and Insurance, becoming proficient in several programming languages and frameworks along the way. These include Ruby, Ruby on Rails, Elixir, Phoenix, Python, Flask, JavaScript, Typescript and React JS.

Interests

When he’s not busy writing code or analyzing financial markets, Ben enjoys staying active and trying new things, such as hiking, stand-up paddleboarding, working out at the gym, and traveling.