Benoît Clouet
Chief Architect - Head Of Architecture Department at Banque de France
Paris, Ile-de-France
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Top SchoolBenoît Clouet is a seasoned IT leader and chief architect with 11+ years of experience steering large-scale technology transformation and operations at Banque de France, where he now heads the architecture department and shapes European-level IT positions. He combines deep expertise in banking regulation, IT governance and CMMI/ITIL practices with hands-on experience rationalising legacy estates, running cloud migrations and reducing operational risk and costs. Benoît has managed organisations of up to 200 people, delivered multi‑million euro savings, and led early blockchain initiatives while negotiating legal and regulatory constraints. An advocate of pragmatic, secure outsourcing and DevOps adoption, he also contributes to open-source—adding authentication features and tests to the popular Python Matrix client—demonstrating that he remains a self‑confessed “geek” who codes and tests alongside setting strategy.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Licence Law, Licence Law at Université de Caen NormandieMaîtrise Computer Science, Maîtrise Computer Science at Nantes Université
English, German, French
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Github Skills (10)
matrix10
pytest10
python10
asyncio10
api-design9
documentation8
windows6
npm6
nodejs6
cordova6
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
matrix-nio/matrix-nio
Feb 2020 - Mar 2020
A Python Matrix client library, designed according to sans I/O (http://sans-io.readthedocs.io/) principles
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & QA Engineer
Back-end Developer & QA EngineerContributions:8 commits, 1 PR, 3 comments in 1 day
Contributions summary:Benoît primarily focused on adding new authentication functionality to the Matrix client library. They implemented a `login_raw` method and updated existing methods to accommodate custom authentication strings, enhancing the library's flexibility. The user also wrote extensive test cases for both the asynchronous and HTTP client implementations to ensure the new authentication features functioned correctly and addressed potential edge cases, including error handling. Additionally, they refactored and formatted documentation.
pythonprinciplessans-ioclient-librarymatrix
clouetb/puppet-geth
Jul 2017 - Dec 2022
Contributions:6 commits, 25 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 6 months
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