Benoît Grélard
Frontend Developer
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolBenoît Grélard is a frontend leader with 12 years of experience delivering data-rich, production web apps across advertising, fintech and startups from London. He specializes in building beautiful, accessible UIs and complex real-time dataviz (mixing SVG and Canvas) using React and GraphQL, and has led teams to ship first-to-market platforms such as a realtime energy trading app for BP. A long-time advocate for code quality, testing and CI, he’s driven frontend architecture work for banks and trading floors and mentored engineers across organisations. Benoît is also an active open-source contributor to the popular Radix UI ecosystem, adding components, Storybook docs and accessibility improvements that improve developer UX.
12 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Software engineering, Bachelor's degree, Software engineering at Université de Bretagne OccidentaleA levels, Science, A levels, Science at La Croix Rouge
English, French, Spanish
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Github Skills (18)
accessibility10
javascript10
storybook10
ui-components10
typescript10
styled-components10
system-design10
carbon-design-system10
ui-design10
system10
sys10
typescript-types10
typescripts10
react10
documentation10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
radix-ui/primitives
Jun 2020 - Jan 2023
Radix Primitives is an open-source UI component library for building high-quality, accessible design systems and web apps. Maintained by @workos.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:1190 reviews, 423 commits, 587 PRs in 2 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Benoît primarily contributed to the development of UI components within the Radix UI Primitives repository, focusing on the implementation of components such as a button, a custom scrollbar, and styling components. They also added Storybook support, which facilitated the creation of visual documentation for the UI components, including the creation of test cases and integrating code block examples, and enhanced the styling of code blocks within the documentation site. Furthermore, they implemented navigation links, which improved the user experience.
radix-uireactaccessible-designaccessibleui-component
radix-ui/website
Dec 2020 - Jan 2023
Website and documentation for Radix.
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:420 reviews, 122 commits, 478 PRs in 2 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Benoît primarily contributed to the development and maintenance of the Radix UI website and documentation. Their work involved integrating new UI primitives, refactoring existing components, and updating the documentation to reflect the latest changes. They also made improvements to the website's structure, including adding new features like a releases page and enhancing the accessibility of code examples. The user's efforts focused on refining the user interface and experience.
radix-uireactdesign-systemaccessibilitycomponent-library
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