# Ben Paget

> Ben Paget is an applied AI engineer and former Cloudflare team lead building production-grade AI systems, intelligent agents, and developer tools. electricsheep.id is his portfolio ("Electric Sheep") and his blog, Thoughts.

## Experience

- Application Performance Team Lead, Cloudflare (January 2025 – August 2026)
- Application Security Systems Engineer, Cloudflare (January 2023 – January 2025)
- Lead Instructor, Full-Stack JavaScript Development, WBS Coding School (March 2020 – August 2022)
- Earlier: full-stack product engineering (Meilleurs Agents, Moygo, Blacksmith Studio), and humanitarian relief and logistics operations for the French Red Cross and Action Against Hunger in Kenya, Mali, Lebanon, Vanuatu, Saint Martin and the Philippines.

## Selected work at Cloudflare

- AI-assisted end-to-end testing: led the creation and rollout of a multi-agent testing framework adopted across a core Cloudflare codebase, with engineer training.
- From ambiguity to delivery with AI: led the Bring Your Own IP project end to end with an AI-assisted, spec-driven development approach.
- Practical AI enablement for product teams: hands-on AI training for product managers (AI tools, MCP servers, RAG architecture, AI-assisted code contribution).

## Independent projects

- [MyCyrillic](https://mycyrillic.app/): learn to read the Russian alphabet, one letter at a time.
- [slsh.it](https://slsh.it/): short links in seconds, with every destination screened for phishing and malware.
- [Mind your MOD](https://mindyourmod.app/): an offline nitrox maximum-operating-depth calculator for divers.
- RoadPass (route-specific border and vehicle requirements for overland journeys) and ReliefJobs (humanitarian, NGO and UN jobs in one place): not public yet.

## Contact

- Email: ben@electricsheep.id
- [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/ben-paget/)
- [GitHub](https://github.com/MyElectricSheep)
- Open to applied AI engineering roles: building hands-on, close to users, turning promising ideas into working products.

## Thoughts

- [The agents Sir Tim Berners-Lee dreamed of are here. But Big Tech is fencing them in.](https://electricsheep.id/thoughts/agentic-web.md): In 2001 Berners-Lee pictured a web run by software agents. They're here now, and three walls are going up around them: sites, platforms and card networks. (2026-11-10)
- [Only the baker knows what the bakery needs](https://electricsheep.id/thoughts/only-the-baker-knows.md): npm co-founder Laurie Voss says engineers need to understand the business once AI writes the code. Why I think that pulls product and engineering together. (2026-11-03)
- [The valuable part of building software is moving up a level](https://electricsheep.id/thoughts/software-maker.md): DHH calls it being a software maker. With AI agents writing more code, the valuable work moves up a level: the problem, the system design and the decisions. (2026-10-10)

## Optional

- [Thoughts as RSS](https://electricsheep.id/thoughts/feed.xml): every post in full
- [Sitemap](https://electricsheep.id/sitemap.xml)