About πŸ‘¨β€πŸ’»

It began long ago, history became legend, legend became myth ...

Ben Payne Hunt sat at the front of a crowd at a confernce

Background ⛰️

I lead engineering at Haysto, helping our teams ship fast, high-quality fintech products that actually make people’s lives easier.


I’m a hands-on polyglot who loves Go, Laravel, Node, React, and Vue, but I’ll use whatever gets the job done.


My focus is on great DevX, smart processes, and building teams that move with purpose and momentum.

Experience πŸ¦„

Tech Lead & Engineering Manager

Sep 2024 β€” Present

Haysto

Leading a fast-moving engineering team building fintech products that make complex mortgage journeys simpler & more transparent.

Tech Lead & Senior Engineer

Jul 2022 β€” Sep 2024

Shift

Led a 9-strong international dev team, mentored juniors, planned flawless sprints with product & drove the build of Shift’s partner integrations.

Snr Software Engineer

Sep 2021 β€” Jul 2022

Shift

Developed driver-operations mobile-web app messaging system removing the need for expenditure on 3rd party alongside other business critical features

Software Engineer

Jan 2019 β€” Sep 2021

Computech

Rebuilt legacy application with a modern full JS stack, optimised store front solutions & led development of a complex local first web application.

Software Engineer

Jan 2010 β€” Dec 2018

Freelance

Built & launched high-performance embedded, mobile & web experiences for a range of purposes - varying from vehicles, messaging systems, store fronts & news outlets.

Skills πŸ‘¨β€πŸ’»

  • Typescript | Node.js | PHP | Laravel | Jest | PHP Unit
  • React | Vue | Redux | Javascript | HTML | CSS | Cypress
  • MongoDB | SQL | MySQL | AWS | DigitalOcean | Cloudflare | S3 | Github Actions | Forge | Vercel | Docker | Redis
  • Engineering leadership | Mentorship |

Interests πŸ‘Ύ

  • Developer experience & tooling
  • Performant compiled languages
  • GO | Rust | Zig | Gleam

  • TUIs & CLIs

Awards πŸ†

  • Haysto Outstanding Contribution Award
  • British Bank Awards - Treating the Customer Fairly
  • TBGS Computer Science Award - 2018

Education πŸŽ“

International Baccalaureate - 39

Location πŸ“

Dartmoor, Devon, United Kingdom | Remote | Hybrid - Exeter, Bristol, London