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.
Benedict Chan @bencxr
Looking forward to the #SmartCon keynote today! I will be speaking about innovations in smart contract and #DeFi infrastructure. https://t.co/DVvxTcyTE6
Aug 5, 2021 Β· β₯ 76 Β· β 17
Benedict Chan @bencxr
Excited to join @Chainlink! Building infra for crypto is my passion. Trustless digital agreements were a dream when I began my crypto journey. Today, scalable and reliable data networks for smart contracts is what I believe will unlock the next phase of growth for #DeFi. https://t.co/5aBpNXlfhW
Oct 16, 2020 Β· β₯ 662 Β· β 91
Founder at LightsprintYC X26
Intro paths
Benedict went through Y Combinator (Spring 2026) β 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 β the partner who ran Lightsprint's batch and knows the company first-hand. YC profile β
In turn, Benedict can intro founders to Lightsprint's investors below.
Lightsprint's investors Β· 2
Co-founders at Lightsprint
Experience
- Lightsprint (YC P26)CTOcurrent2025 β present
- Chainlink LabsVice President Of Engineering2020 β 2024
- BitGo, Inc.Chief Technology Officer2014 β 2020San Francisco Bay Area
- SendHubPlatform Developer2013 β 2014Menlo Park, California
- MicrosoftSoftware Development Engineer II2010 β 2013Sunnyvale, California
- Fragnetics LLPPartner2004 β 2012
- Manticore Investment GroupHead, Quantitative Strategies2008 β 2010
- Zopim CommunicationsProduct Manager2010Singapore
- Vr-ZoneDevOps Engineer2004 β 2010
- University of New South WalesTutor2008 β 2009
Education
- UNSWComputer Science, Networking, Neural Networks2006 β 2009
Skills & more
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JavaScriptC++SQLNoSQLRubyPHPLinuxC#Ruby on RailsMySQLHumilityLanguages C# Β· Erlang Β· Java Β· Node.JS Β· Python Β· Ruby
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Founder mafias
Y Combinator mafia8,668
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UNSW mafia29
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Same school
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Shared employers
Also worked at Lightsprint (YC P26)2
Also worked at BitGo, Inc.11
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Also worked at SendHub1
Also worked at Microsoft1,056
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