Julien Benatar
Senior Staff Product Manager - Personalization & AI ML
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJulien Benatar is a Senior Staff Product Manager specializing in personalization and AI/ML with 11 years of experience bridging software engineering and product leadership in music and media. Based in NYC and originally from Paris, he has driven cross-platform personalization at SiriusXM—lifting home screen engagement 40%—and previously built data-driven artist tools and analytics at Next Big Sound and Pandora. He combines hands-on engineering roots (front-end contributions to open-source Python web framework spyre and early full-stack work at Next Big Sound) with strong cross-functional execution, from A/B frameworks to tagging and analytics pipelines. Julien has a track record of turning complex data into actionable experiences for creators and listeners, including personalized onboarding that increased first-day listening by 11%. A former SXSW speaker and longtime music-industry technologist, he brings both product intuition and engineering discipline to elevate recommendations and content discovery.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at San José State UniversityMaster's degree Computer Engineering, Master's degree Computer Engineering at EFREI - Grande école du numériqueFrench Baccalauréat Science, French Baccalauréat Science at Lycée Jules Ferry
fluent english (toeic: 945), Spanish
Github Skills (9)
css10
front-end-development10
responsive-design9
html8
web-application7
webapp7
application-framework7
web-framework7
webapp-framework7
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
adamhajari/spyre
Jul 2015 - Aug 2015
a web application framework for python
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:22 commits, 1 PR, 1 comment in 1 month
Contributions summary:Julien primarily focused on front-end development, as evidenced by numerous commits related to CSS styling and layout adjustments within the `spyre` web application framework. Their work involved refining the visual presentation of the application, including changes to font sizes, padding, and overall responsiveness across different screen sizes. The user's contributions aimed at enhancing the user interface by reorganizing CSS structures, renaming elements, and improving the layout.
pythonweb-applicationframeworkweb-application-frameworkapplication-framework
julienbenatar/julienbenatar.com
Feb 2015 - Mar 2016
Contributions:10 PRs, 30 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year 1 month
angular
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