Benjamin Bernard
Lead Tech at Crédit Mutuel Arkéa
Brest, Brittany, France
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Top SchoolBenjamin Bernard is a lead tech and full‑stack engineer with 11 years’ experience building conversational AI, web and embedded systems, currently shaping Bot-as-a-Service platforms at Crédit Mutuel Arkéa. Deeply rooted in the open source and maker communities, he founded Open Path View and runs weekly workshops for youth, blending hardware (Arduino, Raspberry Pi, PCB design) and web stacks (Kotlin, Java, TypeScript, Vue, Python). He combines hands‑on engineering with product and entrepreneurial skills—running funding, coordination and business studies for projects—while championing license‑friendly solutions. Notable achievements include integrating Google Contact Center AI in production, shipping France’s first Google Assistant chatbot with integrated payment, and leading a community platform with SSO and dozens of VMs. Based in Brest, he brings a pragmatic, constraint‑driven approach to dialogue modelling and system design that bridges research, ops and education.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
MP*, Mathématiques, Physique, MP*, Mathématiques, Physique at Lycée KérichenDiplôme d'ingénieur Informatique, Informatique, Diplôme d'ingénieur Informatique, Informatique at INSA Rennes - Institut National des Sciences Appliquées de RennesMaster Innovation And Entrepreneurship, Master Innovation And Entrepreneurship at ESC Rennes School of BusinessBac S, Section Européenne, Bac S, Section Européenne at Lycée Estran Charles de Foucauld
English, French
Github Skills (176)
mautic10
slack-bot10
postgresql10
web-application10
python10
pgp10
bots10
accounting10
rsa-cryptography10
semantic-search10
smartcard10
retrieval-augmented-generation10
internet10
conversational-ui10
conversational-bots10
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
Benvii/tock
Apr 2020 - Feb 2025
Tock - the open source conversational AI toolkit
Contributions:22 pushes, 3 branches in 4 years 10 months
nlpconversationalconversational-aimachine-learningai-toolkit
zyioump/bug-the-biped
Mar 2016 - Oct 2023
A robot
Contributions:2 PRs, 7 pushes in 7 years 8 months
roboticsrobot
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