Benjamin Lesné

JavaScript Developer

Salary / Daily rate

Paris, France

Freelance

Can come onsite

Skills

TypescriptReactRESTful APIsDocker

Languages

English

About me

Intro

JavaScript developer with 3+ years building scalable web applications and data visualization tools. Proven expertise in React and TypeScript with achievements including 40% bug reduction through end-to-end testing and 30% faster deployment cycles. Specialized in creating interactive platforms and REST APIs for complex data visualization projects.

Links

Work experience

Front-End Engineer

KU LeuvenFreelance

May 2024 - Present

2 years 6 months

Remote

“𝗦𝗰𝗲𝗻𝗮𝗿𝗶𝗼 𝗘𝘅𝗽𝗹𝗼𝗿𝗲𝗿” 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗷𝗲𝗰𝘁: an interactive tool for visualizing the carbon emissions of the entire European building stock, while presenting different carbon reduction strategies. Carbon emissions can be visualized according to the stages of the building life cycle, building types, etc. This is the interface of the study titled "Support Study for the Development of the Roadmap for the Reduction of Whole Life Carbon of Buildings," funded by the European Union. 𝗔𝗰𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗹𝗶𝘀𝗵𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗮𝘀𝗸𝘀 : - Built everything from backend to frontend - Developed a REST API to read and serve data from Parquet files - Visualized the data with Recharts - Tested my code with Vitest and Playwright - Worked with container-based CI/CD - Wrote documentation for users and developers - I collaborated with the UX/UI designer and the data team

Front-End Engineer

LICA - Collective and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory

Jan 2022 - Mar 2024

2 years 3 months

Marseille, France

“𝗣𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺” 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗷𝗲𝗰𝘁: event management and candidate follow up website. Several “child” applications derived from a “mother” application have been created in order to satisfy different customer needs (Réalise Tes Rêves, Marseille Capital de la mer, FFTDA and many others!) 𝗔𝗰𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗹𝗶𝘀𝗵𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗮𝘀𝗸𝘀: - creation of an internal library - maintain the design system - wrote documentation (for users and developers) with Docusaurus - implemented a WebSocket - CI/CD manager - Proposed and implemented: → end-to-end tests with Playwright, reducing the bug rate per release by 40% → a GitLab pipeline that cut the total time from bug fix to production deployment by 30%


Education

OpenClassrooms

Software Developer (Bachelor equivalent)

2020 - 2021

1 year 1 month

Self-taught

Web Developer

2017 - 2020

2 years 7 months

Nantes Université

First year of medecin

2016 - 2017

11 months

Lycee Aristide Briand - SAINT NAZAIRE

Baccalauréat

2013 - 2016

2 years 11 months

Portfolio

Scenario Explorer

The best place to find your next move

© 2026. All Rights Reserved.