Benoit Favreault

Montreal, Quebec, Canada

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Benoit Favreault is a seasoned front-end engineer based in Montreal with over 20 years crafting responsive web interfaces and 11+ years of professional experience focused on modern stacks. He brings deep expertise in React (10 years), TypeScript, and a highly creative command of CSS—having built production UI component libraries and pushed SASS into modular patterns before frameworks dominated. Benoit combines a functional-programming approach with 15+ years of adaptive design practice, optimizing accessibility, performance and mobile transitions (notably contributing front-end improvements to the widely used SOGo collaboration suite). His background includes team leadership and teaching at UQAM, reflecting a rare blend of academic rigor (doctoral studies in semiology) and hands-on product delivery. Colleagues value him for turning complex design constraints into maintainable, elegant front-end systems.

11 years of coding experience

15 years of employment as a software developer

Section production, Formation en technique, Section production, Formation en technique at École nationale de théâtre du Canada

Programme de doctorat en sémiologie, Scolarité (cycles de formation et de recherche), Programme de doctorat en sémiologie, Scolarité (cycles de formation et de recherche) at UQAM | Université du Québec à Montréal

English

Stackoverflow

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Github Skills (12)

html10

angularjs-material10

css10

javascript10

front-end-development10

angularjs10

ui-design9

responsive-design9

sass9

jgroups8

amp-html6

css-position6

Programming languages (2)

JavaScriptObjective-C

Github contributions (5)

Alinto/sogo

Jan 2015 - Apr 2015

SOGo is a very fast and scalable modern collaboration suite (groupware). It offers calendaring, address book management, and a full-featured Webmail client along with resource sharing and permission handling. It also makes use of documented standards (IMAP, CalDAV, CardDAV, etc.) and thereby provides native connectivity (without plugins) to many clients such as Microsoft Outlook, Apple iCal, the iPhone, Mozilla Lightning, and a plethora of mobile devices.

Role in this project:

Front-end Developer

Contributions:45 commits, 124 pushes, 2 branches in 3 months

Contributions summary:Benoit primarily contributed to the front-end development of the SOGo collaboration suite, focusing on the user interface. They implemented UI components, including toolbars, side navigation, and bottom sheets, and refined the layout and responsiveness of the interface. The user also fixed regressions and updated the codebase for improved design and functionality. Their work also included tasks to optimize the mobile transitions and responsiveness of UI elements.

sogofull-featuredcontactssharingcollaboration

iRouge/engage-emails

Feb 2017 - Mar 2017

Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch in 5 days

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