Benjamin Chow-petit
Active Contributor at La MYNE
Lyon, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France
Summary
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Top SchoolBenjamin Chow-petit is an experienced technologist and systems thinker with 8+ years building collaborative, community-driven projects around Lyon, France. He blends hands-on technical roles (architecture, cybersecurity, R&D) with social innovation work as an active contributor at La MYNE and founding participant in third-place and maker movements. Benjamin has led strategy and technical architecture for startups and consultancies, applying complexity science and lean methodologies to territorial reform, systemic health management, and secure information systems. He pairs grey-hat curiosity and deep independent research into complex adaptive systems with practical outcomes—17+ collaborative projects alongside his wife Connie—and a track record of turning experimental ideas into documented, open-licenced initiatives. Known for cultivating open, benevolent communities that accelerate innovation, he also brings non-executive governance experience and a knack for translating cross-disciplinary research into applied technology.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Traditional schoolingAutodidact
English, French, Spanish, Chinese, Chinese
Github Skills (14)
jupyter-book10
netlify9
connected9
hugo8
finance8
democracy8
science8
tailwindcss7
css7
liquid7
accounting6
javascript6
data-science6
react6
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
thirdplacemaking/thirdplacemaking.com
Oct 2021 - Sep 2022
Making the World as a Third Place (Official Website)
Contributions:49 commits, 41 pushes, 1 branch in 11 months
placereacttailwindcsshugocss
chow-petit/awesome-curated-tools
Jan 2018 - Apr 2020
A curated list of digital tools we use, ranging from accounting and data science to scientific research and liquid democracy. Commented, connected, by everyone and for everyone !
Contributions:33 commits, 1 PR, 32 pushes in 2 years 3 months
accountingjupyter-booksciencedata-scienceliquid-democracy
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