Arnaud Besnier

Arnaud Besnier is currently the CTO at Forest. Arnaud has previous experience working as a Full Stack Developer and Hacker in Residence at eFounders. Arnaud has also been a Lead Mobile Developer at Shopmium for the past 5 years. In their current role, Arnaud is responsible for growing the technical team from 1 to 20 developers and helping them deliver great features on time. Arnaud also defines teams processes and builds the next major Forest Admin products and features. Arnaud works on every aspect of the platform, including the server (Node.js/Express), client app (Ember.js), and in-app agents (Node.js/Ruby-on-Rails/Laravel).

Arnaud Besnier studied at the National School of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics of Grenoble from 2007 to 2010. Arnaud specialized in Image, Virtual Reality & Multimedia. Arnaud was the academic champion in 2007-2008 for football with Grenoble INP and the Rhône-Alpes & 3rd place finisher in the 2008-2009 French Grandes Ecoles Football Championship with Grenoble INP.