Benoit Richert
Lead Engineer at Hello Watt
Paris, Ile-de-France
Summary
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Top SchoolBenoit Richert is a Lead Engineer and entrepreneur with 11 years of experience building and scaling full‑stack JavaScript/TypeScript products from Paris. Co‑founder of Matcha Wine, he led engineering, product and HR early on to launch an AI-driven B2B recommendation platform for wine, beers and spirits, and later refocused on hands‑on technical leadership and mentoring. Skilled in React, Node.js and API architecture, he consistently emphasizes code quality through reviews, testing and CI/CD, delivering multiple production projects with low technical debt. His background uniquely combines technical depth with product strategy and people management, informed by prior roles as CPO and RH. An avid sommelier and former tasting instructor, he brings domain expertise in beverage recommendation that enriches his product and data decisions.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Centrale Paris, Ingénierie généraliste - Science de l'information - Entrepreneuriat, Centrale Paris, Ingénierie généraliste - Science de l'information - Entrepreneuriat at CentraleSupélecEntrepreneuriat, Entrepreneuriat at ESCP EuropePCSI - PC*, PCSI - PC* at Lycée Sainte-Geneviève
French, English, Italian, Chinese
Github Skills (92)
cms10
keystonejs10
nodejs10
graphql10
react10
utilities9
headless-cms9
lodash9
jquery8
circular-reference8
select28
javascript8
testing8
webchat8
cli7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
matchawine/keystoneUtils
Apr 2022 - Mar 2023
Useful tools for Keystone 6
Contributions:4 reviews, 57 commits, 22 PRs in 10 months
cmskeystoneuseful-tools
matchawine/cypressDataSnapshot
Feb 2022 - Apr 2022
Integrates the awesome Jest snapshot testing to Cypress
Contributions:36 commits, 8 PRs, 24 pushes in 1 month
cypresssnapshot-testingcypress-iojestjest-snapshots
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