Geoffrey Benson
Principal Engineer at Oyster Data
Sunnyvale, California, United States
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Top SchoolGeoffrey Benson is a Principal Engineer with 13 years of experience leading product and infrastructure teams to deliver high-performance consumer web systems from Sunnyvale, CA. He excels at transforming slow, waterfall organizations into agile, continuously-shipping teams and has a track record of scaling engineering orgs (9→31 engineers) while mentoring juniors into senior roles. Geoffrey pairs hands-on technical leadership—refactoring prototypes into production-grade platforms, radically improving SQL performance, and designing SOA and contribution platforms—with strategic cross-functional collaboration across legal, marketing, and executive stakeholders. He’s shipped manufacturing execution and real-time backend systems that unlocked major contracts (Yum! Brands, large managed real estate client) and improved revenue capture by millions within quarters. Equally comfortable writing the first prototypes himself or leading a dozen-plus engineers, he prefers building big, impactful products with small, tightly aligned teams.
13 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma, High School Diploma at Spring Lake Park Sr. High SchoolBachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Computer Science at University of MinnesotaHigh School Diploma, High School Diploma at Como Park Sr. High School
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Github Skills (116)
windows10
diffusion-models10
websocket10
image-generation10
inpainting10
text-to-image10
phaser10
javascript10
rendering10
linux10
planet10
generative-art10
unity3d10
webgl10
socket-io10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
xaroth8088/react-planet
Jun 2018 - May 2021
Procedurally generated planets in a React component
Contributions:8 releases, 191 commits, 42 PRs in 2 years 11 months
react-componentreactplanetprocedural-generationreactjs
xaroth8088/sprite-magic
Nov 2013 - Dec 2013
Contributions:69 commits in 24 days
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