Benoit Vidis
R&D Engineer at Kaliop
Montpellier, Occitania, France
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Top SchoolBenoit Vidis is an R&D engineer based in Montpellier with 13 years of experience building and supporting web and backend systems, currently focusing on Kuzzle as a senior backend developer and level‑3 support at Kaliop. He combines hands‑on bug fixing and performance optimizations in open-source backends with AWS consulting and architecture, bringing practical production experience to distributed and real‑time systems. His background spans web development leadership for major consumer brands (Packard Bell/Acer) through project management and senior engineering roles, giving him strong operational and customer‑facing instincts. Notably, his contributions to the kuzzleio/kuzzle project include geospatial filtering implementation and targeted controller/model fixes that improved retrieval semantics and reduced unnecessary function creation. He pairs formal computer science training with a long history of evolving responsibility, from call‑center troubleshooting to leading development teams, which informs a pragmatic, systems‑level approach to problem solving.
13 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Master 1, Computer Science, Master 1, Computer Science at Université d'AngersDEUG, Psychology, DEUG, Psychology at Université catholique de l'Ouest
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Github Skills (19)
javascript10
back-end-development10
nodejs10
backend10
mysql9
amazon-elasticsearch9
pickle9
sqlite9
aws-elasticsearch9
php9
elasticsearchquery9
api9
elasticsearch-api9
elasticsearch9
geolocation8
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
kuzzleio/kuzzle
Apr 2015 - May 2020
Open-source Back-end, self-hostable & ready to use - Real-time, storage, advanced search - Web, Apps, Mobile, IoT -
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:17 releases, 583 commits, 274 PRs in 5 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Benoit primarily focused on bug fixes and code improvements within the Kuzzle backend system. Their work involved modifying existing controllers and models, specifically addressing an issue related to retrieving the Kuzzle object. The user also implemented optimizations, such as only creating curried functions when needed. Furthermore, the user contributed to the implementation of geospatial filtering functionalities.
persistent-datamqtt-serveradvanced-searchweb-searchstorage
kuzzleio/protocol-mqtt-proxy
Sep 2016 - Feb 2018
Contributions:9 commits, 7 PRs, 5 pushes in 1 year 5 months
mqttkuzzle
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