Mike Benza
Staff Software Engineer at Cribl
Houston, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolMike Benza is a Staff Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building robust backend systems for startups and large enterprises, currently focused at Cribl in Houston. He has a strong track record improving reliability, performance, and testability—most recently reducing persistent errors and building made-to-order backend systems for self-checkout kiosks at Standard AI. His background spans high-performance Erlang services, Python client libraries, Neo4j tooling, and cloud deployments at companies including Two Sigma, Momentive.ai, and Alert Logic. Comfortable leading architecture and teams, he pairs hands-on implementation with operational tooling and an eye for product excellence. Mike’s career shows a consistent pattern of tackling mission-critical backend problems across both remote and office environments, informed by a Computer Science degree from Rice University.
11 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Commack High SchoolBachelors of Science, Computer Science, Bachelors of Science, Computer Science at Rice University
English, French, Italian
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Github Skills (63)
graph-drawing10
twilio-api10
graph10
directed-acyclic-graph10
graph-database10
neo4j10
graphdb10
3d-models10
amazon-ec210
cypher10
neo4j-database10
database10
twilio10
graphql9
openscad9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
MikeBenza/erlcloud
Jan 2018 - Apr 2020
AWS APIs library for Erlang (Amazon EC2, S3, SQS, DDB, ELB and etc)
Contributions:4 pushes, 4 branches in 2 years 3 months
ec2amazon-ec2erlangddbamazon
MikeBenza/store-utils
Aug 2015 - Feb 2017
Contributions:8 pushes, 8 branches in 1 year 6 months
fixcompactneo4jgraphstores
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