Find your path to Benedict
71 people in our graph share verified history with Benedict — schools, employers, funds. One of them is your warm intro.
About
Benedict Chan held engineering leadership roles including CTO at BitGo, Head of Engineering at Chainlink, and SDE2 at Microsoft before founding Lightsprint, an AI-native product development platform.
Founder at LightSprintYC X26
Intro paths
Benedict went through Y Combinator (Spring 2026) — any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.
Their group partner at YC was Garry Tan, President & CEO of Y Combinator — the partner who ran LightSprint's batch and knows the company first-hand. YC profile ↗
In turn, Benedict can intro founders to LightSprint's investors below.
LightSprint's investors · 3
Co-founders at LightSprint
Experience
- Lightsprint (YC P26)CTOcurrent2025 — present
- Chainlink LabsVice President Of Engineering2020 — 2024
- BitGo, Inc.Chief Technology Officer2014 — 2020San Francisco Bay Area
- SendHubPlatform Developer2013 — 2014Menlo Park, California
- MicrosoftSoftware Development Engineer II2010 — 2013Sunnyvale, California
- Fragnetics LLPPartner2004 — 2012
- Manticore Investment GroupHead, Quantitative Strategies2008 — 2010
- Zopim CommunicationsProduct Manager2010Singapore
- Vr-ZoneDevOps Engineer2004 — 2010
- University of New South WalesTutor2008 — 2009
Skills & more
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JavaScriptC++SQLNoSQLRubyPHPLinuxC#Ruby on RailsMySQLHumilityLanguages C# · Erlang · Java · Node.JS · Python · Ruby
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Frequently asked questions
- Who is Benedict Chan?
- Benedict Chan held engineering leadership roles including CTO at BitGo, Head of Engineering at Chainlink, and SDE2 at Microsoft before founding Lightsprint, an AI-native product development platform.
- Where does Benedict Chan work?
- Benedict Chan is Founder of LightSprint.
- What companies did Benedict Chan found?
- Benedict Chan founded LightSprint.
- Where did Benedict Chan go to school?
- Benedict Chan studied at UNSW (Computer Science, Networking, Neural Networks).
Founder mafias
Y Combinator mafia10,230
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UNSW mafia121
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Chainlink mafia7
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SendHub mafia3
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Shared employers
Also worked at Lightsprint (YC P26)2
Also worked at BitGo, Inc.15
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Also worked at SendHub4
Also worked at Microsoft2,000
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