Me

Gautier
Ben Aïm

Summary

Developer Advocate

I architect and promote products tailored for developers, with a strong commitment to modern standards, pragmatic solutions and security best practices. I have a 4+ years IT industry background developing and maintaining software applications at scale, with a proven track record of leading successful migrations, increasing productivity and satisfaction for my teams.

Work Experience

Developer Advocate Jahia

As first and sole Developer Advocate at Jahia, I have the opportunity to shape my role and I'll be forever grateful for the trust placed in me. My main focus is being the voice of the company to the developer community and vice versa.

  • Bring the Jahia JavaScript Modules ecosystem to its first stable release, after half a year of technical refinements to reach state-of-the-art Developer Experience.
  • Shape the future customer-facing and internal Developer Experience with proof-of-concepts to full technology migrations (e.g. migrating from webpack to Vite).
  • Produce training and product marketing materials to promote and teach the company’s technologies to the developer audience: blog posts, tutorials, documentation pages, short- and long-form trainings, webinars, code samples and demo websites, etc.
  • Contribute to internal developments with a special focus on new technologies and best practices.
Advocacy Developer Experience Ownership Started in January 2025

Full-Stack Senior Engineer & Cybersecurity Researcher Escape (YC W23)

Senior Engineer

  • Understand business requirements and feature requests, turn them into technical problems, and find pragmatic solutions.
  • Design clear technical guidelines, promoting consistent code structure and streamlined feature development, ensuring all team members are aligned and productive.
  • Train new hires, ensuring communication and deadlines. Foster innovation, independence and healthy team dynamics.
  • Head several open source side-projects, including the API Security Academy, a learning platform for GraphQL security, and svelte-emails, a modern way to build complex transactional emails.
  • Pioneer the adoption of new technologies such as SvelteKit, Temporal and Turbo to improve developer productivity and product stability.

Full-Stack Engineer

Full-Stack Developer & Research Intern

Senior Dev Leadership Cybersec Research March 2022 to December 2024

Full-Stack Developer & Cryptography Advisor Intern Freemindtronic

Cybersec Development Cryptography June to August 2021

Web Developer Student Consultant N7 Consulting

  • Reimagined the Junior Enterprise’s website to create a modern and professional appearance, while highlighting their expertise and services.
Development Design August to September 2020

Java Developer Intern Informatique Banque Populaire

  • Automated the testing of a banking application using the Selenium and Cucumber frameworks.
Development Testing June to July 2020

Personal Journey

Self-Taught Developer

My programming journey began at the tender age of ten, when I began a self-taught exploration of the C language. This early exposure ignited a lifelong passion for technology. Over the years, I’ve maintained a commitment to learning and staying ahead of industry trends through diligent tech-watching. As a way to give back to the community, I write technical articles, sharing my knowledge and experience to help others on their programming journey.

President of net7, the ENSEEIHT IT Association

  • Administrated a non-profit association, taking care of the legal, financial and administrative aspects.
  • Provided technical training to the general public, with a particular focus on emerging technologies.
  • Developed and maintained student services.
  • Created the 2020 students brochure to promote the school to prospective students.

Legal Development Design March 2020 to May 2021

Hackathon Organizer and Host

Event Host Development December 2020

Amateur Indoor & Outdoor Rock Climber

Sports Since 2012

Skills

Cross-functional skills Architecture Technical Writing Digital Security Database Tuning
Soft skills Leadership Communication Teamwork Creativity Customer Centric
Backend JavaScript TypeScript Python PHP
Frontend Svelte Vue CSS Accessibility
Math Cryptography Algorithmics Complexity Analysis
Infrastructure Docker Kubernetes GitHub Actions GitLab CI

Languages

  • French: mother tongue
  • English: fluent (C2, Linguaskill 180+)
  • Spanish: independent (B1)