Benfano Soewito completed his bachelor level education in the F MIPA (since April 10, 2008 changed into the Faculty of Science and Technology) Department of Physics, Airlangga University, Surabaya, Indonesia. Then Benfano completed his master level education in the field of Computer Engineering at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Southern Illinois University, United States of America (USA) in 2004. Benfano Completed his doctoral level education in 2009 at the same faculty and university.

After completing his undergraduate level education, he worked at a company in Surabaya, which produces crystal oscillator as the head of engineering with the main task in the development of design specification, manufacturing technique and quality improvement of the crystal oscillator unit.

While completing his master and doctoral degree, he also worked as an assistant professor, research assistant, support computer specialist, and developed several websites inside the environment of Southern Illinois University, USA. After finishing his doctoral studies, he chose to pursue a career in the education field by joining Bakrie University. Since 2013, he has became a full-time lecturer at the Faculty of Graduate Programs at Bina Nusantara University, Jakarta. He has a high interest toward researches in computer science with a special interest in information technology as include Internet packet processing and scanning, router development as well as security and computer network