Guillaume Besson
Founder at Modddif
Lyon, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France
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Top SchoolGuillaume Besson is a founder and seasoned full-stack engineer with 14 years of experience building and scaling high-traffic SaaS and real-time systems, now leading Modddif, an AI-driven 3D editing tool for professionals. He has repeatedly grown and structured engineering teams (from small startups to 30+ developers) and delivered production-grade platforms for generative AI, end-to-end encrypted collaboration, and large-scale streaming. Technically fluent across Node.js, TypeScript, React, PostgreSQL, Redis and Kubernetes, he also architected cost-efficient multi-cloud GPU clusters and offline-first data models. His background includes real-world peaks—deploying solutions handling hundreds of thousands of concurrent users and CDNs across 10+ countries—and a track record of open-source contributions visible on GitHub. Based in Lyon, he combines hands-on implementation with product-oriented leadership and a knack for pragmatic scaling choices that favor both performance and cost.
14 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
EpitechBaccalaureat Scientifique, Baccalaureat Scientifique at Lycée Charles de FoucauldBrevet des collèges, Brevet des collèges at Collège Charles de Foucauld
English, French, Spanish
Stackoverflow
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31answers
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Github Skills (200)
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Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
dbacked/agent
May 2018 - Oct 2018
The best way to backup and restore your database
Contributions:90 commits, 2 PRs, 60 pushes in 5 months
mysqlsensitive-datarestorerecoverydatabase
geekuillaume/ChatUp
May 2015 - Apr 2016
Contributions:139 commits, 43 pushes, 1 tag in 11 months
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