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Elias Bennett

I build everyday software, and make complicated things feel simple.

I take ideas all the way through: deciding what’s worth making, designing it, building it across the stack, and finding out whether it actually works.

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Elias in a white tuxedo, smiling
Software engineer

Work

06 things I’ve built · 03 I’m proudest of

  1. Threshold

    A clearer view of what moving could cost.

    Product · Data visualisation · 2026

    Threshold landing page introducing the real cost of moving out

  2. Argus Risk

    Every number shows where it came from and how old it is.

    Event-driven systems · 2026

    Argus Risk dashboard showing portfolio value, profit and loss, exposure, and system status

  3. Flowtime

    Breaks that match how long you actually focused.

    Offline-first interaction · 2026

    Flowtime focus timer showing 00:00:00 and a Start Focus Session button
  1. Home SecretaryA household coordination prototype, built for my software engineering coursework.Prototype · 2026
  2. Risk Event TrackerA tested C# Web API for managing risk events.Systems · API · 2025
  3. Ask Professor PastHistory you can talk to. Version 1; I’m rebuilding it.AI product · 2025

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How I work

Three habits, and where I picked them up.

  1. Start from a real problem.

    Threshold started because my friends had no clear idea what renting would cost by area. Flowtime started because Pomodoro kept cutting me off mid-flow.

  2. Write it down first.

    Before I build, I write down the problem, who it’s for, and what’s out of scope. Threshold had 57 user stories before any code.

  3. Measure whether it works.

    I learned this in marketing, running split tests and conversion dashboards. At BNP Paribas I co-built a dashboard from users’ requirements that cut a 30–40 minute data load to under 5.

People in their 20s and 30s make the decision to move out … without a clear, honest view of what it will actually cost.
Threshold’s PRD, 16 April 2026

Where I’ve been

History, then marketing, then code.

  1. Before 2021

    History at uni

    • Because I loved it, and I still do.

  2. Sep 2021 – Aug 2024

    Marketing Executive

    Optegra Eye Healthcare & Kensington Medical

    • The best part was working with the engineers who built our website.
    • The click: a friend loved his work so much that even a hectic week sounded exciting. I wanted that from mine. Early 2024
    • Started coding in my spare time, just to see. Early 2024

  3. Aug 2024 – Jun 2025

    Full Stack Software Engineer

    Joveen

    • Built and improved an e-commerce site across React, Java/Spring Boot and MySQL: refactoring components, lazy-loading assets and optimising database queries.
    • Implemented API endpoints, validation and tests, and fixed mobile layout and functionality issues with cross-browser testing.

  4. Jul 2025 – now

    Software Engineer

    BNP Paribas CIB

    • High-performance computing for pricing and risk systems. I build and ship C# equity and commodity market-data loaders, combining and validating data for pricing and risk simulations.
    • I integrate pricing code with quantitative developers and enable the same NUnit tests to run across CPU and GPU environments. As the team’s sole C# engineer, I own implementation and delivery.
    • Won the Early Careers digitisation competition. Nov 2025
    • Take Ownership award. Q1 2026
    • Nominated as an AI Champion in the risk division. Spring 2026

Off the clock

What my own time looks like this week.

Elias mid-run on a rainy street in central London
Out on a run, central London.

My training week

  1. Monday: Full-body gym
  2. Tuesday: Zone 2 run
  3. Wednesday: Full-body gym
  4. Thursday: Interval run
  5. Friday: Full-body gym
  6. Saturday: Zone 2, rower or bike
  7. Sunday: Assault bike intervals

Zone 2 means slow on purpose.

Poster for Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (2005)

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Last watched

Kiss Kiss Bang Bang 2005

Watched 9 October, rated 3.5 out of 5

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Odd but true, from this week in history

From the archive

2 more oddities this week
NASA illustration of the Galileo spacecraft passing Io, with Jupiter behind it
Image: NASA · Public domain

NASA sent Galileo into Jupiter’s atmosphere, ending its 14-year mission and protecting Europa from a future impact.

2003

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Now making

Rebuilding Professor Past from scratch.

v1 is on GitHub if you want to meet the professor.

Code

GitHub, the past year

1,346 contributions in the past year

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Say hello ↗

Got an idea, a project, or just want to talk about building things? Email’s the best way to reach me.