Benoît Quenaudon
Square - Neighborhoods Android Engineer at Block
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolBenoît Quenaudon is a senior Android engineer with 11 years of experience, currently working on Square’s Neighborhoods team at Block in London. He has led major mobile features for Cash App and maintained Wire, Block’s open-source gRPC/protobuf library, blending mobile UI expertise with backend protocol work. His open-source contributions span high-profile projects like OkHttp, SQLDelight, Okio and RxBinding, where he’s improved HTTP/2, serialization, and developer ergonomics. Benoît is comfortable across the stack—shipping Kotlin refactors, improving I/O primitives, and adding gRPC streaming support—while keeping tests and performance top of mind. Formerly he modernized enterprise Android apps at Cybozu and streamlined release and database workflows earlier in his career, showing both product and infrastructure sensibilities. Colleagues would note his knack for translating tricky protocol and concurrency issues into maintainable code and pragmatic team practices.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
General Academic Studies Degree Mathematics IT Physics, General Academic Studies Degree Mathematics IT Physics at Université Paris CitéMS Computer Science software engineering IT management network and system administration, MS Computer Science software engineering IT management network and system administration at ESIGETEL
English, Japanese, French
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Github Skills (60)
kotlin10
json10
json-parser10
serializable10
serializer10
rxjavafx10
protocol-buffers10
testing10
http10
microservices-application10
jsonp10
java10
ruby10
serialization10
javas10
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
square/wire
Sep 2018 - Dec 2022
gRPC and protocol buffers for Android, Kotlin, Swift and Java.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:526 reviews, 702 commits, 1491 PRs in 4 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Benoît contributed to the `square/wire` repository, which involves gRPC and protocol buffers. The user's commits focus on improvements to JSON adapter functionality, particularly related to the handling and parsing of data. They implemented changes to deal with different encoding for data and also handled parsing and serialization related code in Java. The user also participated in refactoring code to better handle the serialization process.
protocol-buffersprotobufgrpcandroidbuffers
square/okio
Jan 2019 - Jun 2022
A modern I/O library for Android, Java, and Kotlin Multiplatform.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:166 reviews, 77 commits, 67 PRs in 3 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Benoît primarily contributed to the Okio I/O library by implementing and testing new features, particularly focusing on enhancing the `Pipe` class with methods like `fold` and addressing related timeout functionalities. Their work included adding support for "Folding Pipes" and ensuring the correct handling of edge cases regarding closing and flushing. They also implemented `Path.relativeTo(path)` functionality and added tests related to file system operations.
java-androidkotlin-multiplatformandroidkotlinkotlin-android
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