Jeff Bencin
Senior Software Engineer at Stacks Labs
Greater Cleveland United States
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Top SchoolJeff Bencin is a pragmatic blockchain developer with 11 years of software engineering experience who currently builds an L2 on Bitcoin at Hiro Systems. A longtime Linux enthusiast and Rust programmer, he brings deep systems and back-end expertise from a 14-year tenure at Telos Alliance into decentralized systems engineering. His open-source contributions to the Stacks Core project include implementing Atlas network configuration and hardening P2P, node, and database settings—work that ensured miner behavior aligned with Epoch 3.0. Comfortable across realtime/embedded, web, DevOps, security, and sysadmin domains, he combines low-level rigor with pragmatic product-focused delivery. Based in Greater Cleveland and trained in computer engineering at Case Western Reserve, Jeff quietly bridges embedded-systems discipline with cutting-edge blockchain infrastructure.
11 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Engineering, BS, Computer Engineering at Case Western Reserve University
Spanish, English
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Github Skills (9)
rust10
blockchain10
configuration-management9
distributed-systems8
database-management8
system-programming8
bitcoins7
bitcoin7
crypto7
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
stacks-network/stacks-core
Jan 2023 - Apr 2026
The Stacks blockchain implementation
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:513 reviews, 134 PRs, 38 pushes in 3 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Jeff's primary focus was on implementing the Atlas configuration via the `Stacks.toml` file. Their work involved adding and modifying configurations for the Atlas network, including parameters such as attachments maximum size and expiration times. The user interacted with core components of the Stacks blockchain implementation, including the node's configuration, networking (P2P), and database interactions. They fixed issues with settings for miners, specifically making sure that mining runs in Epoch 3.0 as well.
stacks-blockchainbitcoinstackscryptolayer2
stx-labs/multisig-cli
Oct 2023 - Aug 2025
CLI for updated Ledger app
Contributions:7 reviews, 16 PRs, 66 pushes in 1 year 10 months
cli
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