Ben Lamb
Ben is a hands-on software engineering leader with 20+ years’ experience spanning .NET, Python, TypeScript, DevOps, AWS and AI. He leads a small team building software and cloud infrastructure for automated electricity trading and dispatch. Ben is fascinated by making small teams more capable through automation and AI, while keeping systems secure, reliable and pragmatic. He enjoys experimenting with new technology, breaking things, automating them and sharing what he learns.
Montreal 2027 sessions
Invisible Complexity: What Platform Engineering Really Buys
English session - Intermediate
Modern development can look deceptively simple: push code, run tests and deploy. Beneath that workflow sits networking, Kubernetes, IAM, DNS, observability and security. This talk explores what happens when that complexity is concentrated in a platform capability: what developers should own, what they shouldn't, and the trade-offs of hiding infrastructure behind a simple developer experience.
The Ultimate HomeLab
English session - Intermediate
Want to learn DevOps, cloud and infrastructure engineering without running up an enormous cloud bill? Build your own cloud playground. Starting with inexpensive hardware, I’ll build a complete environment using Proxmox, Packer, Terraform and Kubernetes, adding identity and security along the way. We’ll see how the same infrastructure-as-code, automation and security principles apply from a homelab to production cloud environments.
