Lucas Cimon
Concepteur-développeur Logiciel at Voyages-sncf.com
Nantes, Pays de la Loire, France
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Top SchoolLucas Cimon is a seasoned French software engineer with 13 years of experience, currently building backend systems at sncf-connect.com from Nantes. Skilled in Python and CI/CD, he maintains the fpdf2 project and has contributed to high-profile open-source tools like pikepdf, pre-commit, and pylint, focusing on PDF tooling, developer workflows, and static analysis. His background spans network monitoring at Amazon to longstanding work in web and static-site ecosystems (Pelican, Shaarli, Isso), combining solid backend engineering with DevOps and QA sensibilities. A tabletop RPG writer and libre-software advocate, he brings a practical, community-minded approach to tooling and documentation. Notably, his contributions often blend feature work with test and build improvements, showing attention to long-term maintainability as well as immediate functionality.
13 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Engineer diploma, Information Technologies, Mathematics, Engineer diploma, Information Technologies, Mathematics at Ecole Nationale Supérieure d'Informatique et de Mathématiques Appliquées de GrenobleLycée Auguste & Jean Renoir, AngersClasses préparatoires Lycée Bergson Angers
French, English
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Github Skills (60)
unit-testing10
git10
static-code-analysis10
github-ci10
javascript10
pytest10
back-end-development10
python10
api-design10
static-site-generator10
testing10
plugin-development10
tagging10
configuration-management10
disqus10
Programming languages (32)
Github contributions (5)
py-pdf/fpdf2
Jul 2020 - Jan 2023
Simple PDF generation for Python
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:31 releases, 839 reviews, 904 commits in 2 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Lucas made significant contributions to the `py-pdf/fpdf2` repository by addressing a specific issue related to setting links and by implementing a GitHub Actions pipeline, including the addition of badges to the repository. Their work also included the introduction of new functionalities such as a `rect_clip()` function and context managers for rotation, and refactoring for performance. The user's commits suggest expertise in integrating CI/CD pipelines and contributing to core PDF generation features.
pdf-generationpythonpdfbarcodepdf-library
getpelican/pelican-plugins
Jun 2018 - Aug 2021
Collection of plugins for the Pelican static site generator
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:35 commits, 39 PRs, 2 pushes in 3 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Lucas primarily contributed to enhancing the Pelican plugins repository. Their work included fixing import issues, adding new plugins like the ctags generator and shaarli_poster, and updating existing plugins such as w3c_validate, gzip_cache, and others by addressing unit test failures and adapting code for Python 3 compatibility. They also added tests for the plantuml plugin and fixed tests for a number of plugins to improve overall code quality and functionality.
static-site-generator
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