Benjamin Brittain
Founder at East River Source Control
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBenjamin Brittain is a New York–based software engineer and founder with 14 years of experience building backend and systems software across finance, cloud, and embedded domains. He has led core engineering and developer-infrastructure teams at Tower Research and worked on hypervisor and capability-based OS tooling at Google and Fuchsia, bringing deep Rust and systems expertise. As founder of East River Source Control he combines product instincts with low-level engineering, and his open-source work on smoltcp shows hands-on contributions to embedded networking, DNS over 6LoWPAN, and code quality. Benjamin is comfortable moving between production-scale infrastructure and constrained IoT environments, often improving reliability through careful refactoring and tooling. He tends to favor pragmatic, safety-minded approaches—evident in his emphasis on Rust, ObjCap, and observable systems—and publishes work at ersc.io.
13 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at Rochester Institute of Technology
Github Skills (9)
net10
network10
embedded10
rust10
networking10
netstack10
6lowpan10
dns9
mdns9
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
smoltcp-rs/smoltcp
Aug 2022 - Sep 2022
a smol tcp/ip stack
Role in this project:
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions:5 reviews, 12 commits, 6 PRs in 1 month
Contributions summary:Benjamin primarily focused on improving the `smoltcp` networking stack for embedded systems. Their work involved enhancing packet fragmentation and reassembly, including adjusting cache timeouts and making them configurable. They also added support for processing DNS queries within 6LoWPAN connections and implemented one-shot mDNS resolution. Furthermore, the user addressed code quality through refactoring and clippy lint fixes.
smolrusttcp-ipembeddedip-stack
benbrittain/jj
Aug 2023 - Mar 2025
A Git-compatible DVCS that is both simple and powerful
Contributions:61 pushes, 11 branches in 1 year 7 months
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