About - Ben Hoskins

Ben Hoskins

When I'm not programming or knee-deep in a great book, you'll find me dreaming of sailing the seas, fumbling for sheets and lines. ⛵

I often write about technical things. Largely; Linux, web technologies and technical simplicity.

I enjoy building and modifying tools to automate or solve problems for people. This often leads me into Free and Open-Source Software (FOSS), sustainability, the open-web and most importantly, data privacy and security.

This sort of problem-solving sometimes leads into the physical world of engineering, strategy and even luggage too! 🧳

(computing) Playful solving of technical work that requires deep understanding, especially of a computer system.

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Checkout my blog posts and projects for what I've been up to lately. Keep up-to-date with my RSS feeds.

This website would just be plain-text if I didn't have designer friends and colleagues to answer to!

Working Life

At the time of writing I've been working in web-development for over thirteen years.

Focusing on the backend. 🚪

I've worked on the full stack of web-tech at an health and safety EduTech company called IBIS Training. I now consult for their board, working with their e-learning partners managing the company's technical goals and growth on a freelance basis.

In recent years I've been consulting on software engineering, solutions architecture and the business side of tech finance, and digital marketing.

I've had the privilege to work with a few successful startups, some great tech agencies and helped push a few established companies forward.

If you'd like to work together, please do get in touch on Linkedin or see my consulting site over at Atilium.

Email

Feel free to reply to any of my posts by using the "Reply by Email" link under each post. You can also get in contact here.

🔏 Here's my PGP encryption pubkey should you want to encrypt your email: