Benoît Chesneau, head and shoulders, wearing glasses and a dark red roll neck

Benoît Chesneau

Enki Multimedia · Creil, France

I write open source infrastructure, mostly in Python and Erlang. HTTP servers and clients, connection pools, parsers, proxies.

I wrote Gunicorn, a pre-fork WSGI server for UNIX. More recently hornbeam, which runs Python WSGI and ASGI applications on the BEAM, and erlang_quic, an implementation of QUIC in pure Erlang.

I run Enki Multimedia and started the Refuge and Barrel projects.

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Projects

gunicornPython · 10,652
A WSGI HTTP server for UNIX. Pre-fork worker model, broadly compatible, and the thing a lot of Python deployments still run on.
hackneyErlang · 1,416
A simple HTTP client in Erlang.
hornbeamErlang · 165
A WSGI and ASGI HTTP server powered by the BEAM, mixing Python with Erlang's runtime.
restkitPython · 404
An HTTP resource kit for Python.
offsetPython · 380
Go-style concurrency for Python.
gafferPython · 366
Control, watch and launch applications and jobs over HTTP.
http-parserC · 345
An HTTP request and response parser for Python, written in C.
tproxyPython · 269
A simple TCP routing proxy.
couchdbkitPython · 263
A CouchDB framework for Python.
couchbeamErlang · 243
An Apache CouchDB client in Erlang.
flowerPython · 207
A collection of modules for building distributed and reliable concurrent systems.
erlang_quicErlang · 111
A pure Erlang implementation of QUIC, following RFC 9000.

Star counts read from GitHub on 13 August 2026. All 274 repositories

Also

Enki Multimedia
Distributed systems and open source applications.
Barrel
An embeddable database for edge and AI workloads. Open source, built in Europe.
Refuge
Erlang building blocks. Key value storage, discovery and the pieces around them.

Writing

Nothing here yet.

Education

ISEG Lille
ISG Paris