Benedict Singer
Senior Engineer at TrustLayer
Tampa, Florida, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBenedict Singer is a senior engineer and seasoned engineering leader with nearly two decades in tech and a decade of distributed/remote experience, currently focused on product-led engineering at TrustLayer. He has progressed from hands-on backend development—scaling cloud backup and security services and contributing security fixes to high-profile open-source projects like Automattic’s Jetpack/VaultPress—to managing multiple teams delivering WordPress security and marketplace products. As an engineering group manager he combined technical stewardship with product and sales-facing work, setting direction for enterprise security offerings like WPScan and improving metrics-driven team processes. He thrives on learning products end-to-end, defining priorities, and shipping measurable value—evidenced by automating quality checks that scaled Marketplace onboarding and adding security checks that raised buyer confidence. Known for pragmatic security improvements (malware detection jumps and WAF delivery) and prototyping ML-assisted developer tooling, he blends deep technical craft with people-first leadership. Based in Tampa and holding a CS degree from the University of Chicago, he’s energized by solving product problems that sit at the intersection of security, reliability, and customer trust.
10 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at University of Chicago
Github Skills (6)
wordpress10
debug10
php10
plugin10
security10
waf9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
Automattic/jetpack
Mar 2016 - Aug 2022
Security, performance, marketing, and design tools — Jetpack is made by WordPress experts to make WP sites safer and faster, and help you grow your traffic.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:67 reviews, 38 commits, 21 PRs in 6 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Benedict primarily contributed to the VaultPress plugin within the Jetpack repository, focusing on backend improvements and security enhancements. Their work involved bug fixes related to the security scanner, handling of file reading errors, and improving the user agent string. They also addressed issues related to whitespace handling and empty strings, which improved the reliability of the scanner. Moreover, the user made changes to the WAF, adding a fix for header handling and removing an old file.
reactexpertswordpressphpsecurity
singerb/wishlist
Oct 2018 - Nov 2020
Wishlist web app for family collaboration on buying presents
Contributions:4 PRs, 10 pushes, 5 branches in 2 years
reactcollaborationnodejswishlistbuying
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