Howie Benefiel
Founding Engineering Manager at Clarify
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolHowie Benefiel is an engineer with 11 years of experience building high-throughput data systems, observability for LLMs, and early-stage AI products from 0→1. Based in San Francisco, he’s combined hands-on engineering and team leadership across startups and scaleups—leading Capture & Enterprise teams at Heap, founding engineering roles at Clarify and Detail, and now engineering at Sola. He has deep experience rebuilding mission-critical streaming ingestion, shipping privacy and rollout systems, and creating developer workflows that dramatically cut deploy times. Notably, he’s built both codegen products and LLM evaluation frameworks, and has a pattern of stepping into ambiguous problems to deliver pragmatic, production-ready solutions. Trained as a software engineer (MEng) after a chemical engineering BS, he pairs systems thinking with an appreciation for operational reliability and developer velocity.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Engineering - MEng Computer Software Engineering, Master of Engineering - MEng Computer Software Engineering at Cockrell School of Engineering, The University of Texas at AustinBachelor of Science (BS) Chemical Engineering, Bachelor of Science (BS) Chemical Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin
Russian
Stackoverflow
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220reached
2answers
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Github Skills (107)
python10
automation10
ssh10
ansible10
kubernetes10
nano10
go10
docker10
devops10
network-configuration9
google-cloud-run9
programming-language9
google-cloud9
scheduling9
segment9
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
howinator/dotfiles
Mar 2020 - Jan 2025
Contributions:31 pushes, 1 branch, 1 issue in 4 years 11 months
howinator/gh-stack
Aug 2021 - Dec 2024
Manage PR stacks/chains on Github
Contributions:7 PRs, 7 pushes, 7 branches in 3 years 4 months
stackschains
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