Benjamin Jones
Director at Optimism Foundation
United States
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Top SchoolBenjamin Jones is a director and blockchain technologist with eight years of experience building and scaling Ethereum Layer 2 systems. As a co-founder and chief scientist at Optimism PBC and now Director at the Optimism Foundation, he blends technical leadership with product-minded stewardship of a major public good in the crypto ecosystem. He contributes hands-on to core code and test automation for Optimism’s OVM, improving execution manager test coverage and reliability for a widely used optimistic rollup. His background in physics and instrumentation informs a rigorous, measurement-driven approach to engineering and prototyping. Benjamin has prior startup and venture experience, co-founding Plasma Group and evaluating early-stage tech at Underscore VC, bringing both entrepreneurial judgment and technical depth. Colleagues rely on him to translate complex protocol-level tradeoffs into practical, auditable implementations.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Physics and Mathematics, Bachelor of Science - BS Physics and Mathematics at Northeastern University
English
Github Skills (9)
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test-automation9
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Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
ethereum-optimism/optimism
Sep 2020 - Nov 2021
Optimism is Ethereum, scaled.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Backend Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:216 reviews, 106 commits, 104 PRs in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Benjamin has contributed to the test suite of the Optimism project, focusing on execution manager functionality. Their commits primarily involve writing and modifying tests, specifically within the OVM (Optimistic Virtual Machine) context. The code changes reveal a focus on testing aspects such as nuisance gas consumption, context opcodes, and ETH value calls. The contributions also include refactoring and code cleanup to improve test coverage.
rollupl2-scalingovmethereumblockchain
ethereum-optimism/solidity
Sep 2020 - May 2021
[Optimism] (Slightly) modified Solidity compiler
Contributions:8 reviews, 66 commits, 18 PRs in 8 months
ethereummodifiedsoliditycompilersolc
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