Arnaud Besnier
Rennes, Brittany, France
Summary
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Top SchoolArnaud Besnier is a seasoned software leader with 12 years of experience who scaled Forest Admin from a single engineer to a 20-person engineering organization while serving as CTO and earlier as a full-stack developer. He combines hands-on backend and agent integration work (Node.js, Ruby on Rails, Laravel, Django) with product delivery and team processes, routinely guiding multiple squads to ship major features. His open-source contributions include improving ForestAdmin/lumber to support diverse databases and harden deployments, reflecting a pragmatic focus on reliability and interoperability. Prior roles span mobile platform leadership at Shopmium and early R&D work in 3D and computer vision, showing a breadth from low-level algorithms to consumer apps. Based in Rennes, France, he blends startup grit, engineering craftsmanship, and an appetite for hands-on problem solving—he also bikes and trailers between projects.
12 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Engineering Computer Science & Applied Mathematics, Master of Engineering Computer Science & Applied Mathematics at National School of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics of Grenoble
French, Spanish, English, Chinese
Github Skills (10)
sequel10
nodejs10
backend10
sequelizejs10
mysql9
mssql9
postgresql9
database-design9
deploying8
heroku8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
ForestAdmin/lumber
Dec 2016 - Aug 2021
Install Forest Admin in minutes.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 release, 20 reviews, 195 commits in 4 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Arnaud primarily focused on adapting the Forest Liana integration within the Lumber project, modifying secret key names and adjusting configurations related to database connections. They added support for various database types, including MSSQL-specific types like `NTEXT` and `MONEY`, and added support for TIMESTAMP columns in MySQL. Further contributions included fixing connection errors, removing deprecation warnings and improving the overall reliability and performance of Lumber deployments.
lumberadminframeworkbackendnodejs
ForestAdmin/forest-rails
Jun 2016 - May 2022
💎 Ruby on Rails agent for Forest Admin to integrate directly to your existing Ruby on Rails backend application.
Contributions:30 reviews, 516 commits, 320 PRs in 6 years
ruby-on-railsadmin-panelinternal-tooladminagent
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