Arnaud Benard
Senior Staff Research Scientist at Google
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolArnaud Benard is a staff research scientist and entrepreneur with 11 years of experience building production-grade AI and backend systems, currently at Google after Google acquired his startup. As CEO and Co‑Founder of Galileo AI he scaled a generative design platform to over half a million users, shipping models that turn simple prompts into UI designs and working code. His background blends hands-on language-model research at Google with applied ML leadership in search and ranking at Faire, plus practical backend engineering—evidenced by contributions to Open Collective’s GraphQL API and Stripe webhook/payment integrations. Comfortable moving between research, product and infrastructure, he has a track record of taking research prototypes to highly used products and advising fast-growing startups as a former AI consultant. Based in San Francisco and trained across EPFL, Berkeley and the University of Tokyo, he pairs deep technical breadth with founder-level product instincts.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Ecole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne
German, French, English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (14)
postgrest10
nodejs10
postgresql10
back-end-development10
stripe10
webhooks10
api-design9
wpgraphql9
restful-api9
expressjs9
wordpress-graphql9
rest-api9
api-rest9
graphql9
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.
graphql-apipostgresqlopencollectivepostgresnodejs
arnaudbenard/npm-stats
Jul 2015 - Apr 2017
Contributions:1 release, 19 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 8 months
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