Kevin Cathaly
Senior Software Engineer at Beside
Paris, Ile-de-France
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Top SchoolKevin Cathaly is a Senior Software Engineer based in Paris with 11 years of experience building consumer mobile and backend systems, including leadership roles from Lead Mobile Engineer to CTO at Powder. He has strong mobile-first expertise (iOS) combined with recent hands-on backend work for AI-driven products, contributing to Hugging Face’s HuggingChat backend to expose models and conversation data for a high-profile open-source app. Kevin moves between individual contributor and executive responsibilities comfortably, having scaled engineering teams at startups and shipped features at Snap and Zenly. Currently at Beside, he focuses on integrating AI capabilities into product backends and mobile experiences. Fluent in shipping product-focused engineering quickly, he also brings an entrepreneurial streak from freelance roots and a technical master’s from SUPINFO.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
M2 Informatique, M2 Informatique at SUPINFO
French, English
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Github Skills (24)
api-rest10
sveltekit10
back-end-development10
apidoc10
api-design10
restful-api10
typescript10
huggingface10
api10
typescript-types10
rest-api10
typescripts10
backend10
javascript9
mongodb-database9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
huggingface/chat-ui
Jan 2024 - Aug 2024
Open source codebase powering the HuggingChat app
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:12 reviews, 24 PRs, 49 pushes in 6 months
Contributions summary:Kevin primarily contributed to the backend API development of the HuggingChat app, focusing on exposing models and conversation data. They implemented endpoints for model retrieval, conversation history, and current user information. The user also added features, such as an assistantId parameter, and refined existing API functionalities by adding features like including files and model tools in conversation responses.
chatgpthuggingfacellmsveltesvelte-kit
alak/lorcana-api
Oct 2023 - Nov 2023
Contributions:2 PRs, 29 pushes, 3 branches in 12 days
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