Kyle Benk
Senior Software Engineer at Shopify
Pittsford, Vermont, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKyle Benk is a senior software engineer with 12 years of experience building scalable web applications and microservices, currently shaping customer experiences at Shopify. He has led migrations from Kotlin to Laravel/Node.js, created reusable microservice templates, and integrated first-party cookie identity services into AdTech stacks to improve user recognition. A technical lead and coach, he blends hands-on coding with team enablement—standardizing CI/CD, logging, AWS provisioning, and secret management across projects. His open-source contributions include backend enhancements to the widely used WP REST API, adding query features and tests that improved pagination and term handling. With an MS in Computer Science from Johns Hopkins and a background modernizing enterprise publishing platforms, he pairs deep WordPress experience with cloud-native microservice design. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic problem-solver who turns architectural complexity into repeatable developer-friendly patterns.
12 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Computer Science, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science at Johns Hopkins Whiting School of EngineeringBachelor of Arts - BA, Computer Science, Bachelor of Arts - BA, Computer Science at Washington College
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Github Skills (12)
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php10
api10
apidoc10
local-notifications6
audio6
socket6
appid6
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oauth6
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Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
WP-API/WP-API
Mar 2016 - Mar 2016
The WP REST API has been merged into WordPress core. Please do not create issues or send pull requests. Submit support requests to the forums or patches to Trac (see README below for links).
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:8 commits, 2 PRs, 17 comments in 3 days
Contributions summary:Kyle's contributions primarily involve back-end development, focusing on enhancing the WP REST API. Their work includes adding functionalities like date and taxonomy queries for posts and implementing filters within the `class-wp-rest-posts-controller.php` file. Furthermore, the user fixed bugs related to term creation and updates, modifying how term attributes are handled. Unit tests were added to ensure the correct functionality of tags pagination in the REST API.
mergedapiwordpress-apiwp-rest-apiwordpress
Oovvuu/wp-plugin
Apr 2020 - Nov 2021
Wordpress plugin
Contributions:382 commits, 29 PRs, 61 pushes in 1 year 6 months
wordpresswordpress-pluginpluginwordpress-api
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