Benoît Simard
Co-Owner at OuestWare
Nantes, Pays de la Loire, France
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Top SchoolBenoît Simard is a graph-focused software engineer and entrepreneur with 16 years’ experience building and consulting on graph database solutions, currently co-owning OuestWare in Nantes. He combines a master’s background in graph theory and computer science with hands-on development—from Java back-ends to JavaScript visualizations—to deliver practical, production-ready systems. As a former Neo4j consultant and manager at firms specializing in graph technologies, he has deep domain expertise in Cypher and Neo4j integrations. Benoît is an active open-source contributor who extended the popular sigma.js graph visualization library with a Neo4j plugin, adding authentication, Cypher execution, parsing, refactoring and docs to help scale graph visualizations. Colleagues rely on him to bridge research-grade graph theory and real-world software delivery, often turning complex relationship data into clear, interactive interfaces.
16 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Mathematics (graph theory) and Computer Science, Master's degree, Mathematics (graph theory) and Computer Science at Institute of applied mathematics
French, English
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Github Skills (15)
neo4j10
data-visualizations10
data-visualization10
data-visualisation10
javascript10
graph-database10
cypher9
webgl9
xmlhttprequest9
graph6
sigmajs6
csv6
neo4j-desktop6
database6
java6
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
jacomyal/sigma.js
Mar 2015 - Sep 2022
A JavaScript library aimed at visualizing graphs of thousands of nodes and edges
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:87 commits, 23 PRs, 63 pushes in 7 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Benoît primarily contributed to the project by adding a Neo4j plugin to the sigma.js library. Their work involved writing JavaScript code to execute Cypher queries against a Neo4j server and parse the results to update or instantiate a sigma.js graph instance. Furthermore, they added functionalities to handle basic authentication for accessing the Neo4j server and updated example files. The user also refactored some code and added documentation.
javascript-libraryjavascriptnodesedgesvisualizing
sim51/react-sigma
May 2021 - Jan 2023
Sigma React component
Contributions:23 releases, 1 review, 260 commits in 1 year 9 months
react-componentreactsigmajsgraphsigma
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