Benoit Tigeot
Senior Backend Engineer - Developer Experience Team at Lifen
Nantes, Pays de la Loire, France
Summary
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Top SchoolBenoit Tigeot is a senior backend engineer with 11 years of experience, currently building developer tooling and CI/CD systems on Lifen’s Developer Experience team. A longtime Ruby and Rails specialist and former RSpec core team member, he brings deep expertise in testing, build tooling and PostgreSQL performance tuning. He has contributed to high-profile OSS projects like RSpec and Rails—improving test coverage, CI scripts and database adapters—and advocates for best practices that help teams scale reliable apps. Benoit combines hands-on backend work (Ruby, SQL, Go) with DevOps sensibilities, and his background in sound design and teaching gives him a pragmatic, user-focused approach to developer experience.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Dev junior, Développement, Dev junior, Développement at SimplonCS50, Computer Science, CS50, Computer Science at Harvard UniversityBTS, Audiovisuel, BTS, Audiovisuel at Lycée Jean RostandBAC, Electrotechnique, BAC, Electrotechnique at Lycée Livet
French, English
Github Skills (36)
application-framework10
rubocop10
ruby-rails10
testing10
app-framework10
rspec10
bash10
rails10
cicd10
ruby10
activerecord10
web-framework10
test-automation10
scripting9
postgresql9
Programming languages (32)
Github contributions (5)
rspec/rspec-rails
Dec 2017 - Feb 2021
RSpec for Rails 7+
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:50 reviews, 168 commits, 121 PRs in 3 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Benoit primarily contributed to the RSpec for Rails project, focusing on generator enhancements and example app modifications. They added a system spec generator, fixed issues with existing generators, and refactored code to improve usability. The user also made changes to the example app, including version pinning of dependencies and addressing deprecation warnings.
ruby-on-railsrailsrubyrspecrails-5
rspec/rspec-mocks
Mar 2018 - Jan 2023
RSpec's 'test double' framework, with support for stubbing and mocking
Role in this project:QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:12 reviews, 28 commits, 32 PRs in 4 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Benoit primarily contributed to the project by enhancing the test suite. Their work involved adding new tests and modifying existing ones to include time-based assertions and alias, as well as updating the travis build scripts. Changes span multiple files within the `spec` directory, indicating a focus on testing the RSpec mocks library. The user demonstrated the ability to identify and address areas needing improved test coverage.
stubbingtestingdoublerubyrspec
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