Todd Benzies
Sr. Director, Project Formation
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTodd Benzies is a senior open-source program leader with 11 years of experience shaping project formation and operations at The Linux Foundation, where he now leads initiatives to create sustainable open source ecosystems. He has progressed through program management to director-level roles—including leading program operations for Hyperledger—bridging technical communities, governance, events, and funding to scale collaborative projects. Based in Seattle, he blends a background in business economics and Chinese studies with early international teaching and finance roles, giving him a rare mix of cross-cultural communication, stakeholder management, and commercial acumen. Known for turning community-driven ideas into durable programs, he focuses on infrastructure, services, and partnerships that enable long-term project viability.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Chinese, Chinese at Beijing Normal UniversityChinese, Chinese at Peking UniversityBA, Business Economics and Chinese, BA, Business Economics and Chinese at UC Santa Barbara
English, Chinese, Spanish
Github Skills (16)
conversations9
foundation8
lists8
hyperledger8
blockchain7
linux7
mailing7
convergence5
reaction4
graphql3
artwork3
react3
nodejs2
opensearch2
governance1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
tbenzies/nodejs-advisory-board
May 2015 - Aug 2015
Contributions:4 pushes in 3 months
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tbenzies/communicate-using-markdown
Apr 2023 - Apr 2023
Contributions:2 PRs, 5 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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