Jean-baptiste Besnard
Lead Software Engineer at DDN
Paris, Ile-de-France
Summary
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Top SchoolJean-baptiste Besnard is a Lead Software Engineer with 15 years of experience specializing in high-performance computing, parallel networking, and storage. He holds a Ph.D. in Parallel Computing and has led R&D and consulting teams at ParaTools before moving to a lead role at DDN, blending deep academic expertise with product-focused engineering. His hands-on work spans MPI runtimes, parallel profiling and tracing, and RDMA-based HPC networks, enabling measurable performance gains on large-scale systems. Based in Paris, he pairs technical leadership with teaching and research experience from UVSQ and CEA, making him equally comfortable mentoring students and driving production-grade HPC software. Less obvious: he bridges low-level systems work and customer-facing consultancy, turning complex profiling insights into actionable changes for real-world deployments.
15 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Parallel computing, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Parallel computing at Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-YvelinesEngineer's degree, Information systems, Telecommunication and Networking, Engineer's degree, Information systems, Telecommunication and Networking at Institut supérieur d'électronique et du numérique
English, French
Github Skills (53)
python10
windows10
llama10
linux10
signing10
package-manager10
configurations10
image-processing9
multiple-versions9
hpc9
docker-registry9
scientific-computing9
macos9
build-tools9
docker8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
besnardjb/mpi_meta
Jan 2021 - Apr 2023
Contributions:1 PR, 13 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 3 months
besnardjb/mpi-snippets
May 2017 - Oct 2022
vim snippets for the MPI Interface
Contributions:1 PR, 9 pushes, 2 branches in 5 years 6 months
neovimmpivimsnippets
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