Erik Benoist
Principal Engineer at 1440
Chicago, Illinois, United States
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Top SchoolErik Benoist is a Principal Engineer and seasoned software leader based in Chicago with over 13 years of hands-on experience delivering scalable products, rescuing stalled projects, and shortening delivery cycles across startups and large platforms. He combines deep technical ownership—from designing canonical eCommerce schemas and platform tooling to driving SOX-compliant processes—with a talent for building and coaching teams that ship continuously. Erik has held senior technical and executive roles (CTO, VP of Engineering, Platform Lead) at companies including Reverb, Etsy, and Songfinch, where he translated product needs into pragmatic engineering roadmaps. As founder of Nilcoast he helps small tech companies get to market, blending client-facing strategy with implementation. His early Peace Corps work building durable municipal datasets hints at a long-standing ability to turn messy real-world data into usable systems. Curious by design, he’s currently helping “build a more curious internet” while continuing to mentor engineers and shape developer-facing infrastructure.
13 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
BA in Public and Urban Affairs Minor in Computer Science, BA in Public and Urban Affairs Minor in Computer Science at Virginia Tech
English, Spanish
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Github Skills (200)
kvm10
testing10
vimscript10
protoc10
qunit10
cpp10
qemu10
utm10
filetype10
interchange10
php10
tuple10
python10
neomake10
catalina10
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
reverbdotcom/homebrew-reverb
Jan 2019 - Aug 2020
Contributions:1 release, 4 PRs, 3 pushes in 1 year 7 months
reverbdotcom/protoc-gen-graphql
Mar 2018 - Jan 2021
Protoc compiler extension that produces a grahpql schema
Contributions:10 commits, 6 PRs, 3 pushes in 2 years 9 months
protobufgrpccompilerprotocgrahpql
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