Benoit Ardiet
Senior Software Engineer · fintech payments
I am the engineer behind a Swiss money-transfer platform: the .NET APIs and their forty payment-partner integrations, a SQL Server database with 1,900 stored procedures, the mobile app in both stores, the Jenkins pipelines, and the Azure bill. Since 2023, from Quito.
01 — Evidence
When something in that system misbehaves, I get the call. Production, 24 months, 22.3M requests.
Sources: Extended Events captures, telemetry export, Microsoft invoices Sep 2024 vs May 2026, commit history. On a call I open the dashboard.
02 — Incidents and builds
Each one is written the same way: the problem, what I did, where it landed, and the evidence I still have.
03 — Areas of work
04 — Projects
Things I built outside the day job: agent tooling, client work and side projects, most with their architecture laid out.
Workflow · Node.js, AI agents
The configuration behind how I work with AI coding agents: one source rendered to four command-line tools, plus the skills, hooks and review gates that keep several agents building at once under control.
Open source · Lua, TypeScript, MCP
From a window inside WoW Forever, you ask Claude or Codex about a quest or an item. The AI sees your character, quests and bags, searches the world database and can suggest a map waypoint.
Freelance · Python, TypeScript
A platform that collects football odds from several bookmakers and an exchange, lines them up on the same match and the same market, and shows where a price drifts away from a low-margin reference. It does not place bets.
Desktop app · Tauri 2, Rust, React
A desktop app for Windows and macOS that runs several coding-agent sessions side by side, each in its own Git worktree, and shows what every agent is doing without reading its terminal.
Private · Python, LLM agents
An experiment in running two LLM traders, GPT and Grok, side by side on identical rules, with a deterministic risk cage between every decision and every order. Paper and testnet accounts only. The point is the architecture, the evaluation and the controls, not returns.
In development · TypeScript, React
A motorcycle buying guide for French-speaking riders. Today it is a static editorial site, a git-backed CMS and a content pipeline that drafts articles from news feeds and checks every number before a human reads them. The guided funnel the product is built around is not written yet.
Open source · C#, MCP
A read-only Model Context Protocol server that lets an AI assistant explore a SQL Server schema, sample rows and read stored procedures without being able to change anything.
Client work · Electron, TypeScript
A Windows desktop app that lets a Twitch streamer run a live show from one screen: Twitch controls, OBS scene switching and the overlays shown on stream.
Brand site · Nuxt 4
A catalogue site in French, English and Spanish for a perfume brand. There is no cart: each perfume page hands the visitor to a WhatsApp conversation with the message about that perfume already written.
This site · Nuxt 4
This site. One page and a few case studies, no tracking, deployed to Cloudflare Workers from GitHub Actions.
05 — Experience
“Imagination is more important than knowledge.”
The year I started using each one.
Email is best. I answer within a day, in English, French or Spanish. I also take the occasional short engagement on SQL Server performance or Azure cost when it does not conflict with the day job.
