Benoit Pierre
Chargé De Développement Projets Audiovisuels Et Bd at Ankama
Paris, Ile-de-France
Summary
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Top SchoolBenoit Pierre is a producer and development executive with 17+ years building bridges between bande dessinée and audiovisual storytelling, founder of Enormous Pictures and co-founder of Les Éditions Fabula. Rooted in early experience as a bookseller and commercial manager at BNP Paribas, he brings commercial savvy to creative production—launching international animation projects, festival programming and editorial supervision. An active festival organizer and networker in the French BD scene since 2001, he has negotiated rights, secured co-productions and helped professionalize animation production training. Unusually for a producer, he also contributes to technical open-source projects—working on test automation and bug fixes in major Python ecosystems like pip, setuptools and wheel—demonstrating a pragmatic attention to quality and tooling. Based in Paris, he blends editorial taste, rights know-how and technical rigor to shepherd transmedia projects from page to screen.
17 years of coding experience
Licence Assistant de production audiovisuel, Licence Assistant de production audiovisuel at CEFPFLicence AES, Licence AES at Université Versailles St Quentin en Yvelines
Github Skills (43)
c-language10
pytest10
python10
image-processing10
image10
game-dev10
setuptools10
scroll-wheel10
testing10
packaging10
memory-management10
pdf10
pi10
build-system10
c1110
Programming languages (23)
Github contributions (5)
pypa/setuptools
Jun 2016 - Jul 2022
Official project repository for the Setuptools build system
Role in this project:
Backend Developer & QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
Backend Developer & QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:7 reviews, 142 commits, 117 PRs in 6 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Benoit primarily contributed to the Setuptools project by updating and improving documentation links, ensuring their accuracy. Their work also involved fixing tests related to character encoding issues and environment markers. Furthermore, the user addressed bugs in the `install_requires` handling, specifically concerning environment markers and extras. The commits demonstrate a focus on maintaining code quality and resolving testing-related problems.
build-systemsetuptools
koreader/koreader
Oct 2022 - Oct 2022
An ebook reader application supporting PDF, DjVu, EPUB, FB2 and many more formats, running on Cervantes, Kindle, Kobo, PocketBook and Android devices
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:115 reviews, 1 commit, 205 PRs in 1 day
Contributions summary:Benoit primarily focused on improving the KOReader ebook reader application's functionality through bug fixes, code refactoring, and feature enhancements. Their contributions include resolving button callback overrides in the cover browser plugin, addressing Kindle-specific error trace display, and fixing EPUB-related test failures. Furthermore, the user worked on optimizing font memory usage by sharing font face instances. They also made several improvements to UI elements and test scripts.
androiddjvuepubfb2pdf
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