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Benedict Chan

Benedict Chan

Chief Technology Officer at LightSprint

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Benedict Chan co-founded LightSprint, a collaborative software factory for product teams, and is its CTO.

Previously VP of Engineering at Chainlink Labs and CTO at BitGo, Benedict also worked as a software engineer at Microsoft. Studied computer science at UNSW.

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  • Built zeroclick for automated Bitcoin payments over HTTP 402

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Work

www.ycombinator.com · 2026-10-22

  • Benedict co-founded LightSprint with Ben Ong and Heng Hong Lee.
  • LightSprint participated in Y Combinator's Spring 2026 batch.
  • LightSprint gives product teams a shared workspace for planning, building and previewing software changes with cloud agents.
  • Benedict is Chief Technology Officer at LightSprint, beginning in December 2025.
  • Benedict was Vice President of Engineering at Chainlink Labs from September 2020 to August 2024.
  • Benedict was Chief Technology Officer at BitGo from November 2014 to September 2020.
  • Benedict was a Platform Developer at SendHub from December 2013 to October 2014.
  • Benedict was a Software Development Engineer II at Microsoft from September 2010 to December 2013.
  • Benedict was a Product Manager at Zendesk from January to August 2010.
  • Benedict headed quantitative strategies at Manticore Investment Group from December 2008 to December 2010.
  • Benedict tutored at UNSW from January 2008 to November 2009.
  • Benedict worked in DevOps engineering at VR-Zone from June 2004 to June 2010.
  • Benedict was a partner at Fragnetics LLP from March 2004 to December 2012.

lightsprint.ai · 2026-10-22

  • At LightSprint, engineering retains control of the final merge of changes made with AI agents.

Projects

github.com · 2026-10-22

  • Benedict's zeroclick repository implements automated Bitcoin payments over HTTP 402.
  • Benedict's oracle repository is a system for launching oracles in Docker containers.
  • Benedict published a Feedzai Fraud Prevention SDK repository.

Education

  • Benedict studied computer science at UNSW from 2013 to 2017.
  • Benedict studied computer science at UNSW from January 2006 to 2009.

Interests

benchan.eth.link · 2026-10-22

  • Benedict is interested in blockchain wallets with social or passkey login, account abstraction, gas sponsorship and secure recovery.
  • Benedict is interested in connecting the real world with crypto and in applications of micropayments and privacy.

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