Benjamin Arias is a Paris-based web developer and co-founder/CTO with 11 years of experience building end-to-end SaaS products and front-end experiences. He founded and single-handedly developed tikki, a React/GraphQL SaaS using serverless Node.js and MongoDB Realm, handling everything from auth and email delivery to PDF generation and analytics. His background spans accessibility work (RGAA compliance), mentoring front-end students, and production SaaS development at companies like Saagie and KissKissBankBank. Benjamin also contributed front-end and 3D work to the open-source jeelizFaceFilter project, integrating a Three.js AR demo with custom 3D assets—an example of his mix of UI, backend, and WebGL skills. Practical, product-minded, and comfortable across the full stack, he combines startup grit with a teaching mindset.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Licence, Droit-Economie, Licence, Droit-Economie at Université Paris Nanterre
Senior Developer Nanodegree, Web development (Front-End/Back-End), Senior Developer Nanodegree, Web development (Front-End/Back-End) at Udacity
🎭 Lightweight WebGL & JavaScript library for real-time multi-face detection, tracking and augmented-reality face filters. Supports rotation, mouth-opening and integrates with Three.js, Babylon.js, Canvas2D and CSS3D
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Contributions:71 commits, 54 pushes, 2 comments in 8 months
Contributions summary:Benjamin implemented a hat filter for a three.js augmented reality face filter demo, incorporating a 3D model (Luffy's hat) and related textures. They created and integrated the 3D model and associated textures. The user also added a video background and made modifications to the index.html file to correctly include the new demo.
Contributions:5 releases, 1142 reviews, 1271 PRs in 2 years 11 months
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