Benji York
Principal Engineer at CoinTracker
United States
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Top SchoolBenji York is a Principal Engineer with 21 years of experience building and leading teams that deliver reliable, production-grade systems at scale. Currently shaping technical vision and architecture at CoinTracker, he has led engineering organizations from SaaS startups to security and cloud platforms, including roles as CTO and Sr. Staff Engineer handling petabyte-scale data. A pragmatic hands-on leader, Benji combines deep backend expertise—evidenced by open-source work improving Python keyring integrations and async SQL tooling—with a focus on observability, reproducibility, and resilient operational behavior. He’s comfortable refactoring low-level integrations up to system architecture and is noted for turning complex, security-sensitive problems into testable, maintainable solutions. Based in the United States, he brings both long-term institutional experience and an active contributor’s mindset to fast-moving engineering challenges.
21 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree Computer Science, Bachelor's Degree Computer Science at Tennessee Technological University
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Github Skills (15)
keyring10
backend10
sql10
python10
back-end-development10
testing10
documentation7
pyqt7
windows6
linux6
perl6
text-files6
regex6
security6
privilege6
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
jaraco/keyring
Oct 2010 - Aug 2011
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:12 commits in 9 months
Contributions summary:Benji primarily focused on refactoring and improving the keyring backend, transitioning from C/C++ extension modules to Python modules for Gnome and KDE integration. They implemented tests and fixed bugs related to the KDE wallet, specifically handling scenarios where the user cancels wallet access. Furthermore, the user added a buildout configuration for reproducibility and integrated test runners, ensuring consistent and reliable testing of the codebase.
nackjicholson/aiosql
Jan 2022 - Jan 2022
Simple SQL in Python
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 review, 5 commits, 3 PRs in 1 day
Contributions summary:Benji primarily focused on improving the functionality and stability of the `aiosql` library, specifically addressing issues in the asyncpg adapter. They fixed a bug in variable replacement, a critical component of the library's SQL parsing, and ensured the proper handling of SQL escape sequences. They also corrected typos and made documentation improvements.
postgresqlsqlitesqlpython
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