Benjamin Askins

genlevel

Software engineer with 36 years of breadth and depth across infrastructure, distributed systems, developer experience, and platform engineering. Domains include banking, insurance, micro-lending, logistics, manufacturing, and two-sided digital marketplaces.

Producing electronic music since 1991. Played live up and down the east coast with Infusion in the early nineties, and around Sydney and Canberra as genlevel through to the end of the millennium. Releasing solo work intermittently ever since.

Central Coast, NSW.

github.com/benaskins music.genlevel.com

projects

aurelia axon lamina panopticon

I never met a command line I didn't learn to love.

IBM 3270 VMS xterm CDE Windows NT macOS Claude Code

ISPF/PDF 3.4 PERSONAL DATA SET LIST ROW 1 OF 12

────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────

DSNAME LEVEL ===> BASKINS.IDENTITY.*

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NAMEBENJAMIN ASKINS

ALIASGENLEVEL

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ROLESOFTWARE ENGINEER

EXPERIENCE36 YEARS

FOCUSINFRASTRUCTURE, DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS,

DEVELOPER EXPERIENCE, PLATFORM ENGINEERING

DOMAINSBANKING, INSURANCE, MICRO-LENDING,

LOGISTICS, MANUFACTURING, MARKETPLACES

MUSICPRODUCING SINCE 1991, RELEASING AS

GENLEVEL SINCE 1997

LOCATIONCENTRAL COAST, NSW

────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────

LINKS:

GITHUBGITHUB.COM/BENASKINS

MUSICMUSIC.GENLEVEL.COM

PROJECTS: AURELIA · AXON · LAMINA · PANOPTICON

COMMAND ===> _ SCROLL ===> PAGE

PF1=HELP PF3=EXIT PF5=RFIND PF7=UP PF8=DOWN PF10=LEFT PF11=RIGHT

%SET-I-INTSET, login procedure complete

GENLEVEL::BASKINS — OpenVMS V7.3-2 on node GENLVL

$ SHOW PERSONAL /FULL

Personal Information Display

Name: Benjamin Askins

Alias: genlevel

Role: Software Engineer

Experience: 36 years — infrastructure, distributed systems,

developer experience, platform engineering

Domains: Banking, insurance, micro-lending, logistics,

manufacturing, two-sided digital marketplaces

Music: Producing since 1991, releasing as genlevel

since 1997

Location: Central Coast, NSW

$ DIR [.LINKS]

Directory GENLEVEL$DISK:[BASKINS.LINKS]

GITHUB.COM;1 1 benaskins

MUSIC.COM;1 1 music.genlevel.com

Total of 2 files.

$ █

xterm — ben@genlevel.net

# ~/.identity — sourced from bashrc

ben@genlevel:~$ cat /etc/motd

Benjamin Askins · genlevel
Software engineer, 36 years. Infrastructure, distributed
systems, developer experience, platform engineering.
Banking, insurance, micro-lending, logistics,
manufacturing, two-sided digital marketplaces.
Producing music since 1991. Releasing as genlevel
since 1997. Central Coast, NSW.

ben@genlevel:~$ ls -la ~/links/

total 2

lrwxrwxrwx ben github -> github.com/benaskins

lrwxrwxrwx ben music -> music.genlevel.com

ben@genlevel:~$ ps aux | grep projects

ben   1001 aurelia     running
ben   1002 axon        running
ben   1003 lamina      running
ben   1004 panopticon running

ben@genlevel:~$ █

dtterm — genlevel

Solaris 2.6 — Common Desktop Environment

genlevel% finger baskins

Login: baskins Name: Benjamin Askins
Directory: /export/home/baskins Shell: /bin/tcsh
No unread mail.

Plan:
Software engineer, 36 years. Infrastructure, distributed
systems, developer experience, platform engineering.
Banking, insurance, micro-lending, logistics,
manufacturing, two-sided digital marketplaces.
Producing music since 1991. Releasing as genlevel
since 1997. Central Coast, NSW.

Links:
github.com/benaskins
music.genlevel.com

Projects: aurelia, axon, lamina, panopticon

genlevel% █

C:\

Command Prompt

_

□

×

Microsoft(R) Windows NT(TM)
(C) Copyright 1985-1996 Microsoft Corp.

C:\WINNT\Profiles\baskins> type identity.txt

Benjamin Askins
genlevel

Software engineer, 36 years. Infrastructure,
distributed systems, developer experience,
platform engineering. Banking, insurance,
micro-lending, logistics, manufacturing,
two-sided digital marketplaces.
Producing music since 1991. Releasing as
genlevel since 1997. Central Coast, NSW.

C:\WINNT\Profiles\baskins> dir /b links\

github.com/benaskins
music.genlevel.com

C:\WINNT\Profiles\baskins> net start

The following services are started:

   AURELIA
   AXON
   LAMINA
   PANOPTICON

C:\WINNT\Profiles\baskins> _

ben — ~

Last login: Tue Mar 10 09:14:22 on ttys001
❯ cat ~/.identity

  Benjamin Askins
  genlevel
  ─────────────────────────────────
  Role:        Software Engineer
  Experience: 36 years
  Focus:       Infrastructure · Distributed Systems
              Developer Experience · Platform Engineering
  Domains:     Banking · Insurance · Micro-lending
              Logistics · Manufacturing · Marketplaces
  Music:       Producing since 1991, releasing as
              genlevel since 1997
  Location:    Central Coast, NSW

❯ cat ~/.links

  github.com/benaskins
  music.genlevel.com

❯ brew services list | grep active

  aurelia     started
  axon        started
  lamina      started
  panopticon started

❯ █

Claude Code v1.0.33
/Users/ben/dev/sites/benjaminaskins.net
Model: claude-opus-4-6

> who am I?

Let me check.

⏺ Read(human-identity.md)

Benjamin Askins · genlevel

Software engineer, 36 years. Infrastructure,
distributed systems, developer experience, platform
engineering. Domains include banking, insurance,
micro-lending, logistics, manufacturing, and
two-sided digital marketplaces.

Producing music since 1991. Releasing as
genlevel since 1997. Central Coast, NSW.

Links:
- github.com/benaskins
- music.genlevel.com

Current projects: aurelia, axon, lamina, panopticon

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