Summary
Hugo Benichi is a Senior Software Engineer based in Chiyoda, Japan, with 10 years of experience blending systems engineering, networking, and data-driven software. He has driven core networking features for Android and Chrome OS at Google, built high-throughput virtual networking components in Scala/Java at Midokura, and implemented production data pipelines and analytics tools earlier in his career. His background in experimental quantum optics (PhD from The University of Tokyo) gives him rare strengths in mathematical modeling, statistical inference, and real-time systems—skills he applied to FPGA programming and high-speed data acquisition. Hugo is a generalist comfortable across L2–L4 networking, VPNs, IPv6, distributed data pipelines in Go, and low-level kernel interaction via Netlink, with a track record of improving performance and developer workflows. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic problem-solver who turns deep scientific rigor into reliable, production-grade software.
10 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Msc, quantum and statistical physics, Msc, quantum and statistical physics at Ecole normale supérieure
PhD, experimental and theoretical quantum optics, PhD, experimental and theoretical quantum optics at 東京大学 / The University of Tokyo
BSc, physics, computer science, BSc, physics, computer science at Ecole polytechnique
French, English, Japanese