Benaiah Mischenko
Staff Software Engineer at Guideline
Portland, Oregon, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBenaiah Mischenko is a Staff Software Engineer based in Portland, Oregon, with over a decade of professional experience building and maintaining high-performance web platforms and developer tooling. He has led teams and projects from end-to-end—rebuilding state agency sites on modern stacks and scaling Netlify’s open-source CMS and build systems during rapid growth. His work spans full-stack and DevOps responsibilities, including improvements to build images, CI tooling, and production systems that run millions of builds daily. An active open-source contributor, he has deep backend expertise demonstrated by meaningful contributions to the Fennel Lisp compiler and feature work across projects like Netlify CMS and wuzz. Pragmatic and detail-oriented, he frequently focuses on language-level correctness and developer experience (e.g., parser/compiler fixes and UX safeguards for editorial workflows). Colleagues rely on him to deliver reliable, maintainable solutions on time and under budget while keeping developer ergonomics front and center.
13 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at University of Alaska Anchorage
Github Skills (46)
parserator10
json10
git10
content-management-system10
cms10
javascript10
docker10
parser10
command-line-interface10
configuration-management10
http10
bash10
dockers10
cicd10
toml10
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
netlify/build-image
Nov 2019 - Aug 2021
This is the build image used for running automated builds
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:7 releases, 17 reviews, 53 commits in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:Benaiah focused on improving the build image used for automated builds. They implemented changes related to installing and managing dependencies, specifically Ruby gems and Node.js versions. Furthermore, the user updated the preinstalled versions of core software like Yarn, Go, Ruby, and Node.js, reflecting an effort to keep the build environment current. Their work also included refactoring build scripts and adjusting the location of build binaries.
buildsautomated-buildsdockerimage-build
bakpakin/Fennel
Feb 2018 - Sep 2021
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 review, 40 commits, 21 PRs in 3 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Benaiah primarily contributed to the `fennel` project by implementing new features and fixing bugs related to the Lisp language's parser and compiler. Their work included adding integer division, supporting underscores in number literals, enabling destructuring shorthand, improving macro functionality, and correcting syntax errors. The contributions demonstrate a focus on enhancing the language's core functionality and refining its syntax and usability.
lualisp-languagecompilerlispcommon-lisp
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