Céline Bensoussan
Engineering Manager at Shopify
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolCéline Bensoussan is an engineering manager at Shopify with 12 years of software experience and a strong full-stack background spanning APIs, data visualization, and report generation. She moved up through backend and senior developer roles into management, combining hands-on coding with people leadership across Montreal startups and global teams in London. A McGill MSc in Computer Science and trilingual fluency (French, English, Spanish) support her cross-cultural collaboration and technical mentoring—she even volunteered to design and teach a beginner web development course internally. Céline contributes to high-profile open-source efforts like DefinitelyTyped by improving test suites and QA automation, reflecting a focus on reliability and developer experience. Her practical strengths include building RESTful services, API integrations, and analytics UIs, plus experience with Node/TypeScript and data-driven front ends. She’s known for turning complex data requirements into clear, usable interfaces while maintaining rigorous testing and quality standards.
12 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
U3, Computer Science, U3, Computer Science at Univerdad de AlicanteBachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Science at Bishop's UniversityMasters, Computer Science, Masters, Computer Science at McGill University
French, English, Spanish
Github Skills (8)
typescript10
dts10
typescript-definitions10
typescripts10
type-definition10
typescript-types10
testing10
javascript7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
DefinitelyTyped/DefinitelyTyped
Jan 2019 - Jan 2019
The repository for high quality TypeScript type definitions.
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:6 commits, 2 PRs, 1 comment in 1 day
Contributions summary:Céline's contributions focused on enhancing and maintaining the test suite for type definitions. Their work involved adding tests for specific scenarios, such as shorthand configurations, and adjusting existing tests to reflect changes in the code. They also made updates to testing files related to version changes and typo fixes. The primary focus of their work appears to be ensuring the accuracy and reliability of type definitions within the repository.
typescriptdefinitiondtstypingstypescript-definitions
CelineBen/codeetfilles
Sep 2017 - Nov 2020
Contributions:2 PRs, 25 pushes, 3 branches in 3 years 2 months
python
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