Alec Benzer
Software Engineer at Stripe
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlec Benzer is a pragmatic software engineer with 14 years of experience building reliable, production-grade systems at Google and Stripe and scaling product-focused engineering at startups. He dislikes needless code and prioritizes minimal, maintainable solutions—an ethos reflected in roles spanning site reliability, security infrastructure, and financial integrations. Alec has helped ship FDA-cleared medical device software and HR/benefits tooling, showing comfort in highly regulated and data-messy domains. He contributes to sqlc, improving MySQL support and type-safe SQL code generation, signaling a strong backend and database tooling interest. Based in New York, he blends systems-level SRE rigor with product-minded engineering to keep services simple and robust. Outside work he quietly bridges the gap between developer ergonomics and operational excellence, favoring practical automation over clever complexity.
14 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
High School Academy for Telecommunications and Computer Science, High School Academy for Telecommunications and Computer Science at Bergen County AcademiesBachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Github Skills (6)
code-generation10
go10
sql10
mysql10
database-design9
code-generator8
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
sqlc-dev/sqlc
Jul 2020 - Oct 2020
Generate type-safe code from SQL
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:3 reviews, 9 commits, 9 PRs in 3 months
Contributions summary:Alec made several contributions focused on improving the sqlc tool's MySQL support. They fixed an issue related to handling MySQL table renames and implemented features like support for the MySQL JSON type and `CREATE TABLE x LIKE y` statements. Furthermore, they introduced the ability to emit database tags and prepended table names to generated enum names, enhancing the tool's functionality.
sql-generationpythonmysqlsqlcode-generator
alecbz/AlecBenzer.github.io
Jan 2015 - Jan 2025
My personal webpage.
Contributions:2 PRs, 137 pushes, 2 branches in 10 years 1 month
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