Benedict Smith
Software Engineer at Apple
England, United Kingdom
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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.
12 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 (37)
asynchronous10
netty10
cassandra10
cloud-infrastructure10
hardware10
java10
event-driven10
fault-tolerance10
distributed-database10
database10
nosql9
blogger9
gist9
scylla9
couchdb9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
belliottsmith/cassandra
Jan 2015 - Jun 2026
Mirror of Apache Cassandra
Contributions:1 review, 2 PRs, 2369 pushes in 11 years 7 months
cassandraapachedatabaseapache-cassandrajava
belliottsmith/cassandra-accord
May 2022 - Jun 2026
Accord Distributed Consensus Protocol for Apache Cassandra
Contributions:13 reviews, 1 PR, 1480 pushes in 4 years 2 months
cassandraconsensus
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