Ben Godfrey

Current

Web Architect at Self

Past

Director at moblog:tech
CTO at MyMart
CTO at Cohack

Web Application Developer at Self
Web Application Developer at Studio Soup

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Education

University of East Anglia
Bilborough College

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Industry

Computer Software

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Ben Godfrey’s Summary

Web architect with 10 years experience. CTO with experience in 3 start-ups.

In the last 10 years I've built things for Fuji, Start-rite, TfL, Moblog, Huddle and Intruders. I'm currently a Wandering Hacker, working on projects with a variety of platforms and tools including Python, Django, PHP, Google App Engine, Amazon EC2 and S3, REST API mashups, OAuth, HTML/CSS, JavaScript, Ajax with jQuery, social media tools including WordPress and Twitter and much more.

I was a founding team member of 3 start-ups, Cohack (web analytics), Moblog (mobile photo blogging) and MyMart (mobile ecommerce). As part of those teams, I've done just about everything, development, product management, marketing, community management, funding, finance and more. I'm looking for new start-up projects.

Ben Godfrey’s Specialties:

Programming, Python, Django, HTML, CSS, Javascript, Ajax, Java, SCJP, PHP, Google App Engine, Amazon EC2 and S3, APIs, OAuth, WordPress, Twitter, Ajax, jQuery, Apache, MySQL, Linux/Unix, Shell, Perl. Mobile web apps, payments, advertising and search marketing. Design, usability, web analytics, online marketing, community development. Startup founder. Cycling.

Ben Godfrey’s Experience

Web Architect

Self

(Internet industry)

October 2008 — Present (1 year 2 months)

Consulting for a number of web start-ups. Projects include:
- Stealth project for Guardian Media Group.
- OpenSocial application development for Huddle.
- EC2-based application scale-out for Fujifilm.
- REST API design and specification for BitCoin.
Director

moblog:tech

(Internet industry)

October 2005 — December 2008 (3 years 3 months)

Moblog develops technology for moblogging - letting people send images, video and sound to you straight from their phones and build communities around sharing photos and videos.

I lead the engineering and product management teams, managing the transition from PHP to Django and building new application features in rapid iterations.
CTO

MyMart

(Retail industry)

August 2006 — October 2008 (2 years 3 months)

I was CTO, product manager and lead engineer for MyMart and MyShops, a mobile auction site and mobile shop platform. I lead the development of the core mobile and desktop web applications in Django on the LAMP stack. I also managed digital marketing and led a funding round.
CTO

Cohack

(Computer Software industry)

August 2004 — January 2006 (1 year 6 months)

Director responsible for developing and managing business and technical implementation of products and services. We provide automated reporting, analytics and dashboard software to online marketers and webmasters.
Web Application Developer

Self

(Internet industry)

2002 — 2006 (4 years )

Built a wide range of web applications:
- Silicon Systems wwWebflow digital asset management system (Java/Tomcat).
- Arena4 UI/UX development and testing.
- Project management tools for SOLAS research project.
Web Application Developer

Studio Soup

(Internet industry)

January 2001 — February 2002 (1 year 2 months)

PHP and HTML/JS/CSS programmer developing web sites and applications for clients including Fujifilm, Severn Trent and Start-rite.