San Francisco · Engineer · Builder · Explorer
I'm Youness Bennani, a full-stack software engineer who loves shaping thoughtful products, especially where data, systems, and human behavior intersect.
Most recently I worked at Bloomberg on BQuant, a financial analysis platform powered by Jupyter and Python. Before that, I spent years at Berkeley Lab building software for geospatial energy and environmental research.
I build tools that help people think clearly with data. That has meant product-facing platform work, internal workflow improvements, analytics, and end-to-end feature delivery across small and large organizations.
At Berkeley Lab, our group's work contributed to energy savings estimated at more than 8 quads through 2030. At Bloomberg, I helped ship practical features for users working deeply inside notebooks, Python environments, and research workflows.
After years in high-intensity work, I stepped back at the end of 2025 to travel, reflect, and reset. That chapter included earning a yoga teacher certification in Thailand and long hikes in Japan — experiences that sharpened how I listen, hold space, and communicate under pressure.
I'm drawn to environments with strong cohesion, curiosity, and conviction. I care about sustainability, emotional honesty, and making things that feel alive rather than merely polished.
There's a small thesis hiding in the theater below: life is partly hallucinated. Not fake exactly, but rendered in real time by bodies, memory, language, weather, and whatever stories we can keep afloat.
AI makes the metaphor harder to dodge. Models hallucinate, people hallucinate, and somehow we still navigate by the patterns that hold. So we row, gently if possible, through a dreamlike scene where even the boats occasionally sink.
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I'm especially interested in solutions engineering, product-minded platform work, and small teams with strong culture and momentum.
