Ben Ashley

I drive large-scale payment platform integrations within ASOS' Birmingham engineering hub, delivering resilient API integrations with PSPs such as Checkout.com and MPGS, with millions of transactions processed per month.

I also lead AI-assisted development practices for the payments domain, combining MCP orchestrations, GitHub Copilot (Claude), OpenAI Codex, and ChatGPT to co-design specs, surface risk, and accelerate delivery. Building and tuning my own task-focused AI agent has embedded these tools into everyday work, massively speeding up learning and reducing toil.

• Was an essential contributor in delivering 2 of the only card payment gateways for ASOS, enabling half of their total revenue and allowing diversification of cash flow.
• Rolled out application security scanning workflows for both Snyk and Veracode, sharing knowledge across the Birmingham office.
• Mentored junior engineers through code reviews, pairing sessions, and knowledge sharing workshops. As well as sharing externally though volunteering at School of Code.
• Developed my own bespoke AI agent that helps automate discovery, scaffolding, and review workflows, pairing with engineers to ship payment features dramatically faster.

Embedded within a cross-functional squad to enhance the agent-facing CRM, delivering event-sourced features, Pact-tested services, and infrastructure enhancements across Docker, Kubernetes, and Terraform hosted in Azure.

• Delivered event-sourced CRM modules backed by Pact pipelines that protected external integrations.
• Scaled infrastructure automation across Kubernetes and Terraform to accelerate deployment cadence.
• Partnered with product and design to shape data-informed onboarding flows for estate agents.

Delivered features across the Joblogic field service platform, evolving microservices and data pipelines across Azure Service Bus, Functions, and SQL/Mongo data stores while managing CI/CD pipelines and release processes.

• Owned roadmap epics across scheduling, engineer workflows, and mobile syncing experiences.
• Maintained Azure Service Bus messaging, telemetry, and alerting for millions of jobs per month.
• Mentored junior developers via weekly kata clubs and hands-on release readiness walkthroughs.

Supported six cohorts of aspiring developers through a six-month full-stack course, providing one-to-one coaching and group facilitation that helped over a hundred students grow into confident engineers.

• Facilitated remote labs across JavaScript, React, Node, databases, and deployment fundamentals.
• Created reusable debugging guides and lesson extensions adopted by the wider teaching team.
• Hosted office hours to help graduates transition into industry roles and contribute to open source.

Digitised customer request workflows for mobile engineers, owning discovery, sprint planning, documentation, and weekly releases that scaled adoption across the customer base.

• Mapped paper-based processes into mobile-first journeys for engineers out in the field.
• Collaborated with support and product teams to triage feedback and prioritise weekly releases.
• Built telemetry dashboards tracking adoption, retention, and quality signals for leadership.