Benedict Smith
Software Engineer at Apple
England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolBenedict Smith is a distributed systems software engineer with 12 years' experience focused on performance, correctness and algorithm design. He has built core infrastructure and data-processing tooling at high-performance shops including GSA Capital and DataStax, led enhancements to Apache Cassandra, and has been contributing to systems at Apple since 2018. Benedict combines a strong academic foundation—a first-class Computer Science degree from Oxford—with practical expertise in making large-scale data pipelines robust and self-healing. Colleagues rely on him for solving subtle correctness and performance trade-offs that few engineers are comfortable tackling.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, 1st Class, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, 1st Class at University of Oxford
Github Skills (73)
cpp10
database10
application-framework10
cassandra10
apache10
java10
osgi10
asynchronous10
netty10
event-driven10
sling10
nio10
atom-plugin10
nosql9
wordpress9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
apache/cassandra-accord
May 2022 - Jan 2023
Accord library for Apache Cassandra®
Contributions:914 reviews, 15 commits, 101 PRs in 8 months
consensus-protocolcassandraconsensusapacheapache-cassandra
belliottsmith/cassandra
Jan 2015 - Apr 2025
Mirror of Apache Cassandra
Contributions:1 PR, 2046 pushes, 621 branches in 10 years 4 months
cassandraapachedatabaseapache-cassandrajava
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