Ben Baumann
Lead Developer @Unboxed
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WORK HISTORY
Lead Developer @Unboxed
MHCLG - Back Office Planning System (BOPS)- Delivered a multi-tenant Ruby on Rails platform (subdomain-based tenancy) adopted by 13 councils, reducing planning times by ~30%- Designed and built modular Rails engines to separate concerns and prepare for independent scalability across services- Rails engine API with versioned OpenAPI/Swagger docs for integrations- Implemented PostGIS / spatial data support and integrated GOV.UK Notify for email/SMS workflows- Added observability with AppSignal and lifecycle state machines for event tracking, enabling proactive monitoring and data-driven insights- Containerised the app with Docker and managed infrastructure with Terraform (AWS ECS, RDS) for reproducible, scalable deployments- Acted as technical lead, shaping the roadmap and backlog while making key architectural decisions and guiding the team on scalability, maintainability, and user-centred priorities.Won the Local Government Innovation Hackathon with Clio, an AI prototype to summarise planning history, now being explored with councils for real-world adoption.
EDUCATION
Digital Marketing Institute
Digital Marketing
University of Bristol
Bachelor’s Degree, Economics and Management
Imperial Business School
Artificial Intelligence / Machine learning
Udemy Academy
Web Development
ABOUT BEN BAUMANN
Lead Developer at Unboxed
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