Michael Bensoussan
VP Product And Engineering at Getaround
Paris, Ile-de-France
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Bensoussan is a seasoned engineering leader with 15 years building backend, tooling and distributed systems, currently serving as VP Product and Engineering at Getaround in Paris. He progressed through technical and leadership roles at Drivy/Getaround—scaling reliability, data engineering and EU-wide engineering organizations—while keeping a hands-on mindset from his full-stack roots. Equally comfortable shipping backend services and improving front-end UX, he has contributed to open-source projects ranging from Rails plugins to a user-friendly multi-select UI enhancement. Michael combines operational rigor with product sensibility, focusing on reliability and developer productivity to enable rapid, safe delivery. His background spans C++ to modern web stacks and includes formal training in computer engineering and information technology, reflecting both deep technical breadth and practical startup experience.
15 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
EpitechYabneMaster of Information Technology IT, Master of Information Technology IT at International Institute of Information Technology Hyderabad (IIITH)
French, English
Stackoverflow
5,193reputation
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27answers
29questions
ruby-on-rails
top-5%
Github Skills (30)
unit-testing10
ruby-rails10
javascript10
jquery10
testing10
component-development10
rails10
user-interface10
ruby10
activerecord10
test-unit10
unit-test10
test-automation10
schema-design9
plugin-development9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
jackdempsey/acts_as_commentable
Dec 2010 - Jul 2012
The ActiveRecord acts_as_commentable plugin
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:14 commits in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Michael primarily focused on developing and testing features for the ActiveRecord acts_as_commentable plugin. Their contributions involved adding new functionalities, allowing for multiple comment types within a single model, and implementing corresponding tests. They also worked on refactoring existing code and adapting the plugin to work with Rails 4, ensuring backward compatibility and improving overall functionality. The user demonstrated a strong focus on test-driven development by adding numerous tests.
railsactiverecordacts-asruby
lou/multi-select
Sep 2011 - Oct 2011
A user-friendlier drop-in replacement for the standard select with multiple attribute activated.
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits in 5 days
Contributions summary:Michael primarily focused on enhancing the `multi-select` component. Their commits added and refined the "keepOrder" functionality, ensuring the order of selected options was preserved. They modified both the JavaScript code (js/jquery.multi-select.js) and the demo files (demos.html, js/application.js) to implement this new feature. These changes improved the component's usability and flexibility.
reactdrop-inmultiselectselectboxdropdown
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