Baptist Benoist
Chief Technology Officer at Kwenta
Nantes, Pays de la Loire, France
Summary
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Top SchoolBaptist Benoist is a pragmatic CTO and seasoned software architect with 13 years of experience building cross-platform, mixed-language systems from game tools and marine engineering suites to consumer-facing startups. Based in Nantes, he combines hands-on backend and DevOps skills with strategic product thinking, having led teams at Ubisoft, built LabelFlow's open-source annotation platform, and shipped novel payment flows at Kwenta. He brings deep expertise in C++, C#, TypeScript and cloud-native tooling, and contributes to notable OSS like the FAKE build system where he extended CMake support and environment handling. Baptist is equally comfortable designing complex 3D/geometry tooling and lightweight productivity extensions for VS Code, reflecting a habit of turning personal curiosity into production-ready software.
13 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree Computer Science, Master’s Degree Computer Science at SUPINFOAssociate’s Degree Computer Software Engineering, Associate’s Degree Computer Software Engineering at Lycée Saint AndréHigh School Electrical and Electronics Engineering, High School Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Lycée Bernard Palissy
French, English
Github Skills (7)
fsharp10
filesystem10
cmake10
environment-variables10
file-operations10
fileio10
build-automation10
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
fsprojects/FAKE
Mar 2015 - May 2015
FAKE - F# Make
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:14 commits, 9 PRs, 21 comments in 2 months
Contributions summary:Baptist primarily contributed to the backend functionality of the "FAKE - F# Make" repository. Their work focused on enhancing the build process by introducing features such as retrieving system directories, splitting environment variables, and integrating CMake support. Key contributions include adding the ability to locate files based on environment variables, and also extending the utility of the build system. The user also fixed a typo in documentation and refactored some code related to CMake usage.
fsharpdotnetcsharpdotnet-core
bbenoist/vscode-vagrant
Feb 2016 - Aug 2019
Vagrant support for Visual Studio Code
Contributions:29 commits, 14 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 6 months
vagrantvisual-studio-codevscodevscode-extensionvirtualbox
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