Benjamin Cassell
Senior Software Engineer at Faire
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolBenjamin Cassell is a Senior Software Engineer with 12 years of experience and a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Waterloo, currently building products at Cash App. He brings a blend of rigorous research training and practical engineering, having moved from early programming roles in finance and government to shipping production systems at a major fintech. Comfortable across backend and systems-level problems, he combines attention to reliability with product-focused delivery. Based in Waterloo, Ontario, he’s the kind of engineer who translates academic depth into practical, scalable solutions for high-throughput consumer payments. An understated throughline in his career is steady growth from support and customer-facing roles into senior technical ownership, reflecting both technical versatility and user empathy.
12 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Computer Science at University of Waterloo
Github Skills (16)
windows10
launchdarkly10
powertoys9
command-palette9
microservices8
feature-flags8
sdk8
jvm7
java7
server-side7
mirror7
dynamodb6
aws5
kotlin5
dynamodbmapper3
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
becassel/SimpleBackup
Jun 2025 - Jun 2026
Contributions:6 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year
frostredoubt/NewHorizons
Sep 2015 - Sep 2015
Contributions:35 pushes in 1 day
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