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I'm Ben Flowers, an engineering innovator specializing in AI product development and scale. I lead platform modernization and AI transformation at Traydstream, focusing on building scalable, compliant AI systems for trade finance. My work centers on turning complex AI concepts into production-ready, revenue-generating products that navigate regulatory constraints. Over the past 13+ years I’ve built and scaled ventures across proptech, ecommerce analytics, and fintech. I have led multiple ventures from inception to funding, built and scaled engineering teams, and driven practical AI adoption. I enjoy translating technical capability into commercially viable solutions that deliver measurable value.…I'm Ben Flowers, an engineering innovator specializing in AI product development and scale. I lead platform modernization and AI transformation at Traydstream, focusing on building scalable, compliant AI systems for trade finance. My work centers on turning complex AI concepts into production-ready, revenue-generating products that navigate regulatory constraints. Over the past 13+ years I’ve built and scaled ventures across proptech, ecommerce analytics, and fintech. I have led multiple ventures from inception to funding, built and scaled engineering teams, and driven practical AI adoption. I enjoy translating technical capability into commercially viable solutions that deliver measurable value.

Ben Flowers

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I'm Ben Flowers, an engineering innovator specializing in AI product development and scale. I lead platform modernization and AI transformation at Traydstream, focusing on building scalable, compliant AI systems for trade finance. My work centers on turning complex AI concepts into production-ready, revenue-generating products that navigate regulatory constraints. Over the past 13+ years I’ve built and scaled ventures across proptech, ecommerce analytics, and fintech. I have led multiple ventures from inception to funding, built and scaled engineering teams, and driven practical AI adoption. I enjoy translating technical capability into commercially viable solutions that deliver measurable value.…I'm Ben Flowers, an engineering innovator specializing in AI product development and scale. I lead platform modernization and AI transformation at Traydstream, focusing on building scalable, compliant AI systems for trade finance. My work centers on turning complex AI concepts into production-ready, revenue-generating products that navigate regulatory constraints. Over the past 13+ years I’ve built and scaled ventures across proptech, ecommerce analytics, and fintech. I have led multiple ventures from inception to funding, built and scaled engineering teams, and driven practical AI adoption. I enjoy translating technical capability into commercially viable solutions that deliver measurable value.

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I’m Ben Flowers, an engineering innovator specializing in AI product development and scale. I lead platform modernization and AI transformation at Traydstream, focusing on building scalable, compliant AI systems for trade finance. My work centers on turning complex AI concepts into production-ready, revenue-generating products that navigate regulatory constraints.

Over the past 13+ years I’ve built and scaled ventures across proptech, ecommerce analytics, and fintech. I have led multiple ventures from inception to funding, built and scaled engineering teams, and driven practical AI adoption. I enjoy translating technical capability into commercially viable solutions that deliver measurable value.

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VP of Innovation & Architecture at Traydstream

July 1, 2025 - Present

Chief architect leading platform modernization and AI transformation for trade finance document processing. Leading architecture transformation from monolithic application to event-driven architecture for scale. Heading Trade Intelligence team replacing legacy rule-based document checking system with LLM-powered solution. Building multi-agent AI system using CrewAI for complex trade finance compliance validation. Architecting Azure-based infrastructure with Kubernetes, Python, and FastAPI for AI/ML workloads. Defining technical strategy to integrate AI capabilities while maintaining regulatory compliance in trade finance. Managing transition from deterministic rules engine to probabilistic AI system in production environment.

Technical Consultant (AI Focus) at Windshore Innovations Ltd

October 1, 2024 - Present

Independent consulting on AI-powered product development. Notable projects include: AI Document Scanner for a German proptech startup (document processing, classification, extraction, and auto-response with RAG using Supabase vector store); ecommerce analytics platform MVP (data ingestion with Airbyte, analytics with ClickHouse, vector store with AstraDB, TimeGEN forecasting, conversational interface via LLM); automated outreach system with LLM one-shot calls.

Co-Founder & CTO at 7879

January 1, 2021 - October 1, 2024

Built and scaled an alternative investment bullion jewelry platform from concept to £700k/m revenue in under 3 years. Led product strategy and technical roadmap, managed engineering, product and operations teams from 0 to 11; raised £6m in funding; secured partnerships (Selfridges, Harrods); navigated regulatory constraints while maintaining rapid development velocity. Tech stack included TypeScript, Postgres, AWS, Next.js, and React.

Venture CTO / Engineering Leader at BCG Digital Ventures

November 1, 2018 - January 1, 2021

CTO for 4 startups from inception through Series A, collectively raising $10m+ in external funding. Built ventures across fintech, healthtech, and logistics with Fortune 500 partners. Hired and scaled technical teams (average 0 to 8 engineers per venture). Managed complex stakeholder relationships between startup teams and corporate partners. Core stack included AWS, TypeScript/Node, Postgres, microservices.

Senior Software Engineer at Wrisk

April 1, 2017 - November 1, 2018

First engineering hire after CTO for an insurtech startup; built microservice architecture for insurance platform using Kotlin, AWS, and Dropwizard.

Senior Software Engineer at Quantemplate

September 1, 2016 - April 1, 2017

Built data-intensive application for insurance underwriting analytics; high-performance UI and Scala/Akka backend for complex data processing.

Senior Consultant Engineer at Thoughtworks

January 1, 2015 - September 1, 2016

Enterprise software delivery for multiple Fortune 500 clients; led zero-downtime migration of multi-billion-dollar revenue C++ application to microservice-based architecture; built social feed for academic writing platform serving millions of users.

Software Engineer at Sky / Allegro Networks / LaterRooms.com

January 1, 2012 - January 1, 2015

Software engineer roles developing web applications in C#, Ruby, Node.js, and Java using agile methodologies.