👋 Beno!t Polaszek

👨‍💻 Web Development Enthusiast Since the Early 2000s

I wrote my first line of code in PHP back in 2002, and I've been hooked ever since!

Over the years, I've honed my skills as a full-stack developer, specializing in:

• 🖥️ Backend: PHP with Symfony & API-Platform, leveraging the power of ReactPHP for asynchronous event-driven applications.
• 🌐 Frontend: VueJS & Nuxt, using the awesome TailwindCSS for styling
• ⚡ Real-Time Updates: Powered by Mercure
• 📱 Hybrid Apps: Built with Capacitor
• ☁️ Hosting: DigitalOcean evangelist, Caddy for efficient web server / HTTPS management, Cloudflare to keep things speedy
• 💾 Databases & search: Primarily MySQL, mostly Meilisearch ♥️
• 🚛 CI & CD: Of course GitHub Actions, and also Deployer
• 🤖 Generative AI: Data augmentation with Claude, Deepseek, OpenAI and Mistral's APIs.

🌟 Open Source Contributions

I maintain several PHP packages:

• 🧰 bentools/freddie: A Mercure Hub written in PHP with Redis-based horizontal scaling.
• 🔄 bentools/etl: A PHP ETL library.
• ➰ bentools/iterable-functions: Add missing PHP functions: iterable_map(), iterable_filter(), iterable_chunk(), ...
• 📦 bentools/cartesian-product: Low-memory library for generating data combinations.
• 🐝 bentools/string-combinations: Get all possible combinations from an array of strings.
• 🔍 bentools/querystring: Query string manipulation in PHP.
• 📲 bentools/webpush-bundle: A Symfony bundle for sending web push notifications.
• 🪞 bentools/reflection-plus: Another improved PHP code reflection API.

Also, I maintain a few JavaScript libraries:

• 🌐 psr7-js: URL manipulation in JS like PSR-7 in PHP.
• 🧩 match-operator: A JavaScript port of PHP's match operator.
• 🎲 bentools-picker: A Javascript library to easily pick a random item from an array, with weight management.
• 🔐 letsdecrypt: High-level API to encrypt and decrypt secrets using AES, RSA and ECC algorithms.
• 🔗 caduceus: A lightweight TypeScript library for Mercure real-time updates.

💼 Freelance Expertise

I work as a freelancer, helping clients in various industries, including:

• 🛒 E-commerce
• 💸 Affiliation
• 🎮 Online Gaming
• 🌐 IoT

Let’s build something awesome together!

🚀 Current Projects

MeiliWeb

An open-source UI for Meilisearch.

https://meiliweb.pages.dev (source)

Let's Decrypt!

A high-level Javascript library to encrypt and decrypt secrets using symmetric and asymmetric encryption algorithms, leveraging the Web Crypto API.

https://letsdecrypt.pages.dev (source)

Grodiko

An online French dictionnary, full-featured with definitions, synonyms, antonyms, conjugations, translations, pronunciations etc.

• NuxtJS SSR / CSR
• Meilisearch delivering 1.5M+ entries with definitions & etymologies translated in 7 languages
• Translations with Claude and Deepseek
• The whole thing hosted on a $7 droplet on DigitalOcean with blazing fast response times ⚡️

https://grodiko.fr

📫 Feel free to reach out if you have any questions or just want to chat about tech!