Christian Benincasa
Senior Software Engineer at Google
New Jersey, United States
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Top SchoolChristian Benincasa is a senior software engineer with 13 years of experience building robust, production-grade backend systems and developer tooling, currently at Google and based in New Jersey. He brings deep functional-programming expertise across Scala, Clojure, Haskell and TypeScript, and pragmatic polyglot experience with Java, Swift, Python and Objective-C. At Curalate he led core services and architected a Finagle/Finatra-based platform, CI-driven immutable deployments to AWS, and a lock-free, low-latency rate limiter used across APIs. He’s an active open-source contributor—improving routing composability in Twitter’s popular Finatra HTTP framework and cross-building modules for Scala 2.13 compatibility. Fascinated by programming language theory, NLP and AI, he enjoys turning language-level ideas into practical, fully typechecked systems and DSLs that make other engineers more productive.
13 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
B.S., Software Engineering, B.S., Software Engineering at Drexel University
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Github Skills (20)
application-framework10
app-framework10
http10
scala10
finatra10
web-framework10
testing9
guice7
microservices-application7
microservices7
html6
xpath6
firefox6
google-chrome6
css6
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
twitter/finatra
Mar 2017 - Nov 2020
Fast, testable, Scala services built on TwitterServer and Finagle
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 reviews, 13 commits, 17 PRs in 3 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Christian's primary contributions revolve around enhancing the Finatra HTTP framework, specifically focusing on improving the composability and flexibility of the `RouteDSL`. They refactored the routing DSL, addressing issues related to prefixes and filters, and introduced new DSL elements. The changes involved modifying core files like `RouteDSL.scala` and related test files to ensure the proper functioning of routes within the Finatra HTTP framework. Additionally, the user cross-built several modules within the Finatra project for Scala 2.13 compatibility.
guicetwitter-serverfinagletestingframework
chrisbenincasa/berglas-node
Aug 2019 - Jul 2020
Node library for decrypting Berglas secrets
Contributions:20 commits, 6 PRs, 9 pushes in 11 months
berglasgcpcryptographysecuritycloud-functions
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