Fabien Bessez
Software Engineer at Facebook
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolFabien Bessez is a software engineer with 10 years of experience currently building products at Facebook in New York. He has progressed from internships at Bleacher Report and Tempo to engineering and management roles at Juvo, blending hands-on backend development with team leadership. Fabien’s open-source work includes a notable Python wrapper and documentation for Tinder’s API, where he implemented core actions, auth flows, and result-sorting features. He is comfortable across stacks—Node.js, React/Redux, Elixir/Phoenix and Python—and has shipped consumer-facing integrations like a Chrome extension with ~10,000 downloads. With dual academic grounding in computer science and psychology, he brings both technical rigor and user-focused thinking to product problems. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic engineer who translates complex API and platform challenges into reliable, maintainable systems.
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science Psychology, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science Psychology at Wesleyan UniversityComputer Science, Computer Science at Vassar CollegeHigh School, High School at Hunter College High School
English, French
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (17)
json10
python10
apidoc10
authentication10
user-authentication10
api10
http-request10
bot-framework6
botkit6
activerecord6
dictionary6
bundler6
event-handling6
elixir6
enums6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
fbessez/Tinder
Feb 2017 - Jun 2020
Official November 2019 Documentation for Tinder's API (wrapper included)
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:107 commits, 22 PRs, 103 pushes in 3 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Fabien primarily focused on building the back-end of a Tinder API wrapper in Python. Their work included adding features like curl headers to facilitate API interactions, creating a configuration file for authentication, and explaining the process of obtaining Facebook tokens. The user also implemented several core functions for the API, encompassing actions like getting recommendations, updates, and user information, as well as actions like sending messages, liking, and disliking profiles. Further development included adding the ability to retrieve matches' information and sort results by different features.
tinder-apiapinovemberapi-wrapperapi-s
fbessez/octo-org
Mar 2020 - Jun 2020
Contributions:25 commits, 18 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
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