Benoit Nolens
Co-founder And CTO at Opera
Brussels, Belgium
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Top SchoolBenoit Nolens is a seasoned software leader and co-founder currently serving as CTO of Textile, where he architects institutional-grade on-chain credit infrastructure and runs engineering across full-stack product, protocols, and indexing systems. With 11 years of experience building payments, wallets, and decentralized social tooling, he has shipped audited Solidity protocols (ERC-4626 debt pools), multi-chain deployments, and large-scale mobile wallet features used by millions. He blends product-first entrepreneurship—founding Kaala and driving Mozilla’s Crypto Lab initiatives—with hands-on engineering from React frontends to Postgres-backed pipelines. Benoit is an early adopter of AI-assisted engineering workflows but insists humans retain the final authority on high-stakes releases, shaping agent-human collaboration practices for safety and speed. Based in Brussels, he’s an active open-source contributor (Mammoth, Textile, Opera) who pairs practical experimentation with rigorous testing, audits, and staged deploys. Not obvious from the headline: he focuses on making complex financial primitives intuitive and enjoys translating institutional credit concepts into consumer-facing, auditable systems.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Sciences, Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Sciences at Katholieke Hogeschool LeuvenBachelor's degree Digital Communication and Media, Bachelor's degree Digital Communication and Media at HOWEST Hogeschool West-Vlaanderen
English, Dutch, French, Spanish
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Github Skills (47)
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Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
TheBLVD/mammoth
Dec 2023 - Sep 2024
Contributions:233 reviews, 331 PRs, 383 pushes in 9 months
bnolens/TSOfflineGeocoder
Dec 2014 - Sep 2015
Contributions:32 commits, 2 PRs, 25 pushes in 9 months
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