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Ben Ralton

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Ben Ralton

Senior DevOps Engineer

Cloud engineering, Full Stack Development & DevOps

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

projects

2 shipped · full write-ups on click
AWS Network Atlas

AWS Network Atlas active

AWS Network Atlas scans AWS accounts read-only and renders an accurate, interactive, committable network and security diagram — the full traffic path plus security-group posture…

  • Typescript
  • AWS SDK
  • React
  • Vite
full write-up

AWS Network Atlas scans AWS accounts read-only and renders an accurate, interactive, committable network and security diagram — the full traffic path plus security-group posture, identity, and a searchable inventory of everything in the account.

Point it at one or more AWS profiles and it stitches a picture of your estate across accounts and regions: VPCs, Transit Gateways, peering, VPN, Direct Connect, load balancers, edge/DNS, IAM, KMS, WAF, and more. Every snapshot is plain text, so the whole diagram is diffable and lives in git alongside your code.

A synthetic demo estate ships with the repo, so you can open the viewer in a browser with no AWS account and no scan.

Built to solve the problem of wanting an actively maintained accurate AWS estate diagram, without needing to grant 3rd party access to your account.

BMAD-Manager (MVP) archived

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

  • Rust
  • Tauri
  • Svelte
  • TypeScript
  • SQLite
  • WebdriverIO
  • AI-Assisted Development
full write-up

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.


This tool was built as a way of learning BMAD methodology and understanding how it works further, it was never designed to go past MVP

experience

2018 — present
  1. 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.

  2. Lead Developer

    Kallion

    Sept 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.

  3. 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.

  4. 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.

earlier roles (2)
  1. Full Stack Developer

    M3 EU

    Sept 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.

  2. DevOps Engineer

    BMW (UK) Manufacturing LTD

    May 2018 Sept 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.

contact

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Open to interesting conversations — infrastructure war stories, side-project ideas, or just what you're building. I'll get back to you quickly.