About me

My name is Benjamin Piouffle. I grew up believing technology could be collaborative, that knowledge was meant to be shared freely across borders by anyone who cared to contribute. That optimism hasn't fully survived contact with the modern internet which, somewhere along the way, became mostly a machine for selling things and harvesting attention.

I still care about the other side of that equation: open-source software, cooperative platforms, digital tools that actually empower the people who use them. If we're stuck with this timeline, we may as well find the cracks, see what else can be built with them.

Day to day, I work as CTO of the Open Finance Consortium, the non-profit behind Open Collective, an open-source platform built on a simple idea: money flows (especially in the context of non-profits and public institutions) should be transparent by default. My days are spent between engineering, product, security, and the eternal challenge of getting humans to agree on how to build things.

I'm also the founder of CaptainFact, a project born from the conviction that the answer to misinformation wasn't more top-down gatekeepers, but rather tools that let citizens verify claims together. Though not very active anymore, the platform is still live. The association behind it has also evolved, now running critical thinking and media literacy workshops in schools.

About this site

This site is for presenting my work and having a place to write, a personal corner of the internet like in the good old days. Oh, and it has an RSS feed too.