Summary
Benjamin De Kosnik is a seasoned software engineer and co-founder currently serving as CTO at alpha60, bringing 26 years of experience across systems, compilers, media analysis, and research. He led C++ runtime and library efforts at Red Hat and Cygnus, contributing deep expertise in compilers, libstdc++, and ABI stability that underpin large-scale Linux ecosystems. At Mozilla he applied that systems background to modern web and networking problems, and through his Special Projects Syndicate work he built sophisticated computer-vision and geospatial pipelines for media distribution analysis. Trained in mathematics with an MFA in fine arts, he blends rigorous technical mastery with meta-media practice—designing tools for film/video recognition, metadata architectures, and archival workflows. Based in San Francisco, he bridges academic research, open-source stewardship, and product engineering, often surfacing subtle infrastructure tradeoffs that enable reproducible, long-lived systems.
26 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Math, Bachelor’s Degree Math at The University of Texas at Austin
Master’s Degree Fine and Studio Arts, Master’s Degree Fine and Studio Arts at California College of the Arts