Quentin Renard
Co-founder Video Architect & Lead Developer at BeNarative
Paris, Ile-de-France
Summary
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Top SchoolQuentin Renard is a Paris-based co-founder and lead developer with 11 years of experience designing scalable video platforms and backend systems. He founded BeNarative and previously led video engineering at Molotov TV, architecting VOD and live encoding platforms and APIs using Go, C++, RabbitMQ, MySQL and Redis. As a freelance senior video developer he blends systems programming (Go, C) with containerized infrastructure and message-driven architectures, and he contributes to notable open-source projects like asticode/go-astilectron and go-astisub that enable cross-platform GUIs and subtitle handling. His background in NLP, PHP and C# adds breadth across backend domains, and his engineer’s degree from INSA Lyon plus an exchange in Norway reflect a strong formal foundation. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic, production-focused solutions that bridge low-level performance work and product-facing video features.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Engineer's degree, Computer Science, Project Management, Engineer's degree, Computer Science, Project Management at Institut national des Sciences appliquées de LyonExchange semester in Norway, Computer Science, Project Management, Exchange semester in Norway, Computer Science, Project Management at Universitetet i Stavanger (UiS)
Github Skills (17)
event-handling10
stl10
go10
webvtt10
srt10
go-language9
electron9
subtitle9
parsing9
golang9
concurrency9
text-parsing9
file-processing8
file-handling8
windows-gui8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
asticode/go-astisub
Jul 2017 - Dec 2022
Manipulate subtitles in GO (.srt, .ssa/.ass, .stl, .ttml, .vtt (webvtt), teletext, etc.)
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:105 reviews, 68 commits, 56 PRs in 5 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Quentin primarily contributed to the development of the `go-astisub` library, focusing on the manipulation of subtitle files. Their work involved adding and modifying structs, and implementing features related to reading, writing, and manipulating subtitle data. Specifically, the user added support for various subtitle formats like SRT, STL, TTML, and WebVTT.
golanggolang-libraryassttmlvtt
asticode/go-astilectron
Apr 2017 - Mar 2022
Build cross platform GUI apps with GO and HTML/JS/CSS (powered by Electron)
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:52 reviews, 208 commits, 52 PRs in 4 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Quentin's commits focused on implementing core features of the `asticode/go-astilectron` project. Their work involved adding essential components such as a reader and dispatcher, which handle the reading and dispatching of events. The commits also showcase the integration of new features and the implementation of event handling within the application's structure, using Go.
golangcss-jselectronwindowscss
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