Arnaud Benard
Staff Research Scientist at Galileo AI
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
🤩
RockstarArnaud Benard is a Staff Research Scientist at Google and the co-founder and former CEO of Galileo AI, a generative-AI startup acquired by Google after scaling to over half a million users. With 10 years of experience across language models, search & ranking, and computer vision, he moves fluidly between research and product engineering. He previously led Search & Ranking at Faire and worked on language models and applied ML roles at Google and other startups. Notably, his hands-on contributions include back-end work on Open Collective’s API — integrating Stripe webhooks and manual payment flows — reflecting a pragmatic focus on reliable production systems. Based in San Francisco, he blends deep research expertise with founder-level product execution.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
German, French, English
Stackoverflow
1reputation
0reached
0answers
0questions
Github Skills (17)
postgress10
node-js10
postgresql10
back-end-development10
stripe10
postgre10
webhooks10
postgres10
postgrest10
api-design9
restful-api9
api-rest9
wp-graphql9
wordpress-graphql9
rest-api9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
opencollective/opencollective-api
Dec 2015 - Aug 2016
Open Collective's API. A GraphQL API powered by Sequelize and PostgreSQL.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:161 commits, 1 push, 11 comments in 7 months
Contributions summary:Arnaud primarily worked on the back-end functionality of the Open Collective API. They implemented features related to webhooks, specifically integrating Stripe's API to handle payment events, including saving activity logs and creating the necessary transactions. They added functionality to handle group slugs and incorporate the payment method within the transaction model. Furthermore, they introduced new routes to update and pay transactions, specifically manual payments.
apigraphql-apisequelizeapi-snodejs
arnaudbenard/npm-stats
Jul 2015 - Apr 2017
Contributions:1 release, 19 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 8 months
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.