Pauline Bessoles
Product & Partnership Manager at XWiki SAS
Paris, Ile-de-France
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Top SchoolPauline Bessoles is a Product & Partnership Manager with six years of experience shaping partnerships and product operations in the open source and democratic innovation space. With a Master’s in Political Science, she blends policy insight, agile product management, and legal experience to build sustainable funding and partnership strategies at XWiki and within the Decidim association. She has led product and operations teams at Open Source Politics, progressing from project management to COO-level responsibilities while improving processes and delivering for complex clients. Pauline is comfortable at the intersection of civic tech, documentation and community coordination, contributing to Decidim’s documentation while steering partner ecosystems. Based in Paris, she combines rigorous academic training with hands-on operational leadership and a knack for translating political and legal frameworks into resilient open-source collaborations. A not-obvious strength: she repeatedly moves between strategic policy-making and day-to-day operational problem-solving, making her effective both with high-level partners and delivery teams.
6 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Law degree, Social and private law, Law degree, Social and private law at Université de La RochelleMaster 2 (M2) in Political Science, Political Science, Mention Bien, Master 2 (M2) in Political Science, Political Science, Mention Bien at Université Toulouse 1 CapitoleMaster 2 Political Science, Political science, Mention Bien, Master 2 Political Science, Political science, Mention Bien at Université Paris 1 Panthéon-SorbonneMaster 1 (M1) Law and Political Science, Law, Mention Bien, Master 1 (M1) Law and Political Science, Law, Mention Bien at Universidad Pablo de Olavide
French, English, Spanish
Github Skills (68)
minecraft10
web-application10
democracy10
reference-implementation10
collective-intelligence9
ruby9
ruby-on-rails9
par9
pins9
objectionjs9
api-documentation9
antora9
rails9
origami8
cookie8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
paulinebessoles/decidim
Feb 2022 - Jan 2025
The participatory democracy framework. A generator and multiple gems made with Ruby on Rails
Contributions:2 PRs, 61 pushes, 9 branches in 2 years 11 months
ruby-on-railsparticipatory-democracyrailsrubygems
OpenSourcePolitics/decidim-reneweu
Jul 2021 - Apr 2023
Decidim instance for Renew Europe
Contributions:3 reviews, 7 PRs, 7 pushes in 1 year 9 months
javaminecraftrenewdecidim
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