Bent Cardan
Partner, Director Of Engineering at Olly - Instantly Crypto
Moscow, Idaho, United States
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Top SchoolBent Cardan is a seasoned engineering leader and Partner/Director of Engineering with 12 years building robust backend systems, networks, and security-focused interfaces across fintech, media, and AR platforms. He leads teams from architecture to delivery, shipping services in Go, Node.js, and C while designing APIs, streaming data pipelines, and non-custodial crypto wallet integrations at Olly. A pragmatic systems thinker—echoing Dijkstra—he contributes to notable open-source projects like libmill (Go-style concurrency in C) and zeromq.node, improving core concurrency and messaging test coverage. Bent combines full-stack fluency (from X11 and hardware integration to ReactJS front ends) with hands-on DevOps and CI improvements, and has a background that spans law studies to philosophy, reflecting an unusual mix of analytical rigor and engineering pragmatism.
12 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Philosophy and Literature, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Philosophy and Literature at University of VermontLaw, Law at Santa Clara University School of Law
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Github Skills (22)
socket-io10
zeromq10
postgresql10
testing10
proxy10
c1110
c1710
socket10
nodejs10
ruby-on-rails10
concurrency10
javascript9
build-system9
http9
file-upload9
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
JustinTulloss/zeromq.node
Oct 2014 - Apr 2016
Node.js bindings to the zeromq library
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:16 commits, 12 PRs, 336 comments in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Bent primarily contributed to testing and improving the `zeromq.node` library's functionality. Their work involved writing test cases for different socket types such as pair, xpub-xsub, router-dealer, push-pull, and xrep-xreq, ensuring proper behavior and proxying capabilities. The commits also included refactoring and code cleanup, and the addition of a stream socket type. Finally, there was an effort to address and correct compile errors, including the integration of a fix related to receiving messages.
nodejszeromq
sustrik/libmill
Apr 2015 - Mar 2016
Go-style concurrency in C
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:21 commits, 19 PRs, 65 comments in 11 months
Contributions summary:Bent contributed to the `libmill` repository, which focuses on Go-style concurrency in C. Their commits include refactoring code by renaming functions, fixing compilation errors related to typedefs, and converting IP addresses to ASCII strings. The user also made changes related to building the project, specifically adding Travis CI support. These actions indicate the user's involvement in core functionality and improving the overall build process.
concurrencygo
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