Benjamin Kilimnik
Co-Founder at PAX Markets, Inc.
Mountain View, California, United States
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Top SchoolBenjamin Kilimnik is a systems-focused software engineer and entrepreneur with seven years of experience building fast, reliable infrastructure for privacy-sensitive, distributed systems. As Co-Founder of PAX Markets and former New Relic engineer, he has shipped eBPF-based observability tooling for Kubernetes and non-Kubernetes environments and contributed to the CNCF Pixie project. His research background at Brown produced K9db (OSDI'23) and practical crypto prototypes for privacy-preserving advertising, reflecting a rare blend of systems, databases, and applied cryptography. At Pixie he designed ML pipelines and synthetic data tools to detect and redact over 60 PII types and authored a public synthetic PII dataset. He combines hands-on backend engineering—implementing robust PII redaction and synthetic data generators—with product instincts for capital markets technology. Based in Mountain View, he leverages open-source contributions and research pedigree to tackle high-stakes data-privacy challenges.
6 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at Brown University
English, German
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Github Skills (12)
data-generation10
regular-expression10
data-security10
go10
testing10
ebpf9
cprogramming-language9
c-language9
observability8
kubernetes8
kubernetes-pods8
cnc7
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
pixie-io/pixie
Jun 2022 - Nov 2022
Instant Kubernetes-Native Application Observability
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:60 reviews, 52 commits, 49 PRs in 5 months
Contributions summary:Benjamin primarily focused on implementing and refining PII (Personally Identifiable Information) redaction and related data generation functionality within the Pixie project. They developed and tested methods for redacting various PII types like SSNs and IBANs using regular expressions and custom logic within the `carnot` framework, indicating a focus on data security. Furthermore, the user contributed to a synthetic data generation tool (Privy), extending its capabilities by adding custom PII data providers to simulate and visualize the distribution of PII data for testing purposes. This involved significant code modifications across multiple source code files.
pixieobservabilitymonitoringkubernetes-nativeeks
benkilimnik/pixie-privy
Sep 2022 - May 2024
Instant Kubernetes-Native Application Observability
Contributions:10 PRs, 371 pushes, 75 branches in 1 year 8 months
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