Benjamin Piouffle
Chief Technology Officer at Open Finance Consortium
La Ciotat, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France
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Top SchoolBenjamin Piouffle is a seasoned full-stack engineer and technology leader with 11 years of experience, now serving as CTO of the Open Finance Consortium and formerly a senior engineer at Open Collective. He combines hands-on expertise in Elixir, React and Node.js with a track record of shipping both frontend (Next.js/React) and backend (GraphQL, PostgreSQL) improvements to large open-source projects. As founder and lead developer of CaptainFact, he built a real-time collaborative fact-checking platform that reflects his interest in media literacy and transparent systems. Comfortable bridging product and engineering, he focuses on sustainable, auditable financial tooling for communities and open source. Unusually for a CTO, he remains an active contributor to the codebases he leads, often pushing UI component work and GraphQL field optimizations himself. Based in La Ciotat, he blends French engineering training (EPITECH) with international exposure from a year at CSULB.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
EpitechComputer science, Computer science at California State University, Long BeachMedia literacy, Media literacy at edX
French, English, Italian
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Github Skills (24)
javascript10
ui-components10
nextjs10
wpgraphql10
front-end-development10
wordpress-graphql10
graphql10
nodejs10
react10
postgresql9
apidoc9
api9
html8
webpacker8
css8
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
opencollective/opencollective-frontend
Oct 2018 - Jan 2023
Open Collective's Frontend. A React app powered by Next.js.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:2569 reviews, 4049 commits, 5886 PRs in 4 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Benjamin primarily focused on front-end development tasks, with commits related to UI component development and modifications within the Open Collective frontend project. Their work included implementing changes to the navigation bar, collective page sections, and various components of the user interface. The user demonstrated skills in React, Next.js, and related front-end technologies, ensuring compatibility with existing sections and formats.
frontendnextjsreactwebpackopencollective
opencollective/opencollective-api
May 2018 - Jan 2023
Open Collective's API. A GraphQL API powered by Sequelize and PostgreSQL.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2105 reviews, 2308 commits, 4179 PRs in 4 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Benjamin's contributions focused on enhancing the backend functionality and performance of the Open Collective API. They made changes to the user report generation process, including removing expense categories. They also worked on fixing a test related to tax forms, and introduced improvements in GQLV2, using functions for GraphQL fields. Furthermore, they worked on permission checks and contributed to various fixes and improvements in the codebase.
graphql-apipostgresqlopencollectivepostgresnodejs
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