Pierre Besson
Senior Director Of Engineering at PayFit
Paris, Ile-de-France
Summary
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Top SchoolPierre Besson is a senior engineering leader with 13 years of experience building domain-driven organizations and shipping reliable, user-facing products at scale. Currently Senior Director of Engineering at PayFit, he leads two cross-functional tribes and drives large transformations across HR, payroll, platform, and frontend developer experience to enable sustainable growth and self-service customer acquisition. Previously as CTO of an AI startup, he scaled ML and engineering teams, delivered explainable AI-as-a-Service for enterprise customers, and supported Series A/B fundraising through clear technology storytelling. He excels at bridging engineering, product, and business priorities, clarifying ownership, and turning complex systems into operational, auditable solutions. A trained engineer with roots in physics and telecom, he pairs rigorous technical judgment with a pragmatic focus on long-term maintainability and developer enablement. Colleagues describe him as a mentor for senior technical leaders who steadily trades short-term speed for durable impact where it matters.
13 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
PCSI - PC* Mathématiques Physique Chimie, PCSI - PC* Mathématiques Physique Chimie at Lycée FaidherbeDiplôme d'Ingénieur, Diplôme d'Ingénieur at Télécom ParisMaîtrise Physique, Maîtrise Physique at Paris-Sud University (Paris XI)
Github Skills (82)
zero-configuration10
bootstrap-daterangepicker10
javascript10
single-page-application10
focus10
developer-tools10
build-tools10
user-interface10
web-components10
frontend10
create-react-app10
react10
notification9
material-design-lite9
testing9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
klee-contrib/focus-core
Mar 2014 - Jul 2016
Version 2. Technical stack to build single page application.
Contributions:17 releases, 1037 commits, 210 PRs in 2 years 4 months
single-page-application
klee-contrib/focus-docs
Nov 2014 - Jul 2016
Documentation for focus.
Contributions:128 commits, 28 PRs, 55 pushes in 1 year 8 months
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