ben​@vyrz.dev

Hi! I'm Ben, a full stack backend and web developer.

These days, I predominantly use Rust for my projects, however I was originally a Python/JS developer.

Some of my passions are byte-level file parsing, networking/packet design, and competing-consumers-style pipelines.

A few things I have worked with are...

• Rust

  • Axum (Web framework)
  • Proj4rs (pure rust reimplementation of proj4)
  • Serde (Serialisation/Deserialization Library)
  • Tokio (Async Runtime, for multithreading and data-flow)
  • Tracing (Logging library)

• Python

  • FastAPI
  • Flask
  • Asyncio
  • Mongoengine & SQLAlchemy
  • Py-Serde (A lib for structuring and safely parsing JSON) ^ Contributed.
  • Pika @ RabbitMQ for AMQP

• Javascript

  • Typescript
  • UI Frameworks (React, Svelte, Vue3)
  • jQuery (creating dynamic effects that are tedious in DOM api)
  • Node w/ Vite on Electron

• Markup/Config Languages

  • JSON, TOML, YAML
  • HTML, CSS, SCSS

• APIs:

  • Square, Etsy, Shopify, Ebay, WooCommerce
  • Wordpress
  • Google (Sheets & Docs)
  • Plesk
  • Google Cloud Platform

• Systems Administration

  • GCP App Engine / Compute Engine
  • Docker + Docker Compose
  • Linux (Arch, Fedora, Ubuntu)
  • Networking & Configuration (iwd, network-manager, wpa_supplicant)
  • Plesk & CPanel

Since attending university, I have also completed the following modules.

• 1st Year
  • Computing Foundations (Databasing with SQL)
  • Computing Systems (Sigma16 Assembly & Basic Logic)
  • Electronics Engineering 1X + 1Y (MBED Microcontroller Programming, RC Filters, OpAmps)
  • Maths 1G+1C (Calculus, Matrices, and Linear Algebra)
• 2nd Year
  • Algorithmic Foundations (Discrete Mathematics & Probability)
  • Networks & Operating Systems (CPU Architecture, Protocol specifics, OSI Model)
  • Digital Electronics (VHDL, Programming FPGAs, Interpreting data-sheets)
  • Electrical Circuits (Transient Analysis by hand, Sinusoidal representation of AC signals, Solving for Phase/Impedance)
  • Intro to Object Oriented Programming (Java Programming)
  • Electronic Design Project (Team project, design and build, and report on an electronic heart rate monitor using PPG)
  • Algorithms & Data Structures
  • Analogue Electronics
  • Object Oriented Software Engineering (Java Design Patterns, Project Managament)
  • Embedded Processors (Microcontroller Programming)
  • Physics 2T, Programming under Linux (Covers basic C development & toolchain)
• 3rd Year
  • Completed:
    • Algorithmics 1 (Regex, Finite State Automata, NP Completeness/Computability)
    • Human Computer System Design (Ergonomics, Usability, and Formal Study Methods)
  • IN PROGRESS:
    • Database Systems - (SQL, Normalisation, Optimisation, and analytics)
    • Professional Software Development - (Team/Project Management Techniques)
    • Cyber Security Fundamentals - (Basic Cryptography, Formalisation of Security, Real-World Concerns)
    • Programming Languages (Representing Contextual Grammars (EBNF), Abstract Syntax Trees, Compilers (extend one!))
    • Data Fundamentals - (Tensors, Optimisation Problems, Numpy, Matplotlib)
    • Networked Systems - (TCP/UDP/QUIC, real world concerns, Congestion Control/Slow-Start)
    • Systems Programming - (C, Pointers & Memory Access, Manual Allocation, implemented various ADTs)
    • Team Project - (Design and implement a REAL PRODUCT for a REAL CUSTOMER in teams of 5, randomly selected)
      • Working for THALES UK, to produce GeoQuery, a tool which takes a directory full of map files, and allows this directory to be searched by a region, to find all files which contain data about the query region.
      • Along the way I have improved my proficiency in Rust, and become comfortable with Axum, Tokio, and Serde.
      • I have also gained proficiency in React, as well as frontend development as a whole.
      • Working with my team has been a pleasure, our current implementation meets all the initial requirements and then some.
      • See GeoQuery