Ben|engineer. My career has been a little unconventional. I started out in mech eng, then after a few years in the power generation industry, jumped into a PhD in aerospace engineering at Oxford, building jet engine experiments and simulations, and writing just-about-software in (gasp) MATLAB. That grounding in hardware engineering and data got me a start at Palantir, where I spent almost five years — first as a Deployment Strategist (FDE) embedded with enterprise customers, then building out the go-to-market team in UK and European utilities. That last stretch was a full-circle moment for me: bringing software to the world of physical infrastructure.

Palantir is a unmatched place to meet founders. I left to co-found Patchwork/Invaria, a YC S24 company obsessed with software observability — not by bolting on another dashboard, but by going back to the source: making code emit consistent, reliable telemetry automatically. We wound down in early 2025.

Currently engineering my way back to my aerospace design roots. I work on problems at the intersection of AI, data, and physical engineering. I also write here occasionally. When I escape the desk you'll find me in the mountains — the Dolomites, usually — skiing, climbing, hiking or behind a camera.