Hey! My name is Benoit Rajalu, I'm a frontend engineer working mostly in React environments. My focus is on user experience and I'm currently design system manager.
Since 2025
I have inherited Pixar, our company's design system, and I am now responsible for its evolution. Without a dedicated team, my role is to coordinate with designers, engineers and product leads constently to ensure our design system always fits our needs. My engineering skills remain useful to provide both technical guidance and develop tools for Figma and Storybook.
2022 - 2025
Working within a full-stack squad dedicated to the Search scope of our OTA product, I contributed to some of our new features. I also had the chance to lead the ambitious redesign of our scope while providing cost-effective refactoring strategies.
2021 - 2022
Part of a cross-functional team, I helped lead, maintain, and promote Talend's design system. Still working in React and TypeScript, but with a strong focus on documentation and design tokens.
2018 - 2021
React, Redux, Redux-saga, TypeScript, and functional programming. I was the UI developer embedded in teams: while others focused on logic, I focused on the interface.
2016 - 2018
Worked in a duo at a now-defunct studio. I handled wireframes, interaction design, and responsive CSS/HTML integration in a Twig environment and at a very fast pace.
2012 - 2016
Lots of HTML/CSS/jQuery, many Wordpress sites with ACF and Twig, and sometimes web design. The freelance classics: tight deadlines and vague briefs.
Before 2012
Before the web, my first job was writing and editing. Still useful today for contributing to documentation or tech articles.
13years of UI experienceI am not tired of it yet either, moving pixels for life.
2decaf coffees per dayThe trusty engine is not exactly new.
150original PokémonCaught ‘em all when I was much younger.
46vinyle recordsLong live physical media (as long as it fits one cupboard).
