Sunny Ripert is a seasoned CTO and full-stack web craftsman with 18 years of experience leading engineering teams and shipping product-focused web platforms from Paris. He combines backend expertise in Ruby/Rails and static analysis (notable contributions to RuboCop and RuboCop-Rails) with front-end polish—improving UI/UX on projects like Mastodon and the Gollum wiki. As CTO of Cults and former Lead Developer at KissKissBankBank, he pairs strategic technical leadership with hands-on coding and a strong eye for SEO, quality and problem-solving. He also teaches at Le Wagon, mentoring the next generation of engineers while staying active in open source. A practical tinkerer who bridges product thinking and developer ergonomics, he’s comfortable refactoring core libraries and shipping user-facing UI fixes alike.
18 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Ingénieur Systèmes d'Informations et Génie Logiciel, Ingénieur Systèmes d'Informations et Génie Logiciel at INSIA — Institut Supérieur d'Informatique Appliquée
Baccalauréat Scientifique International Anglophone, Baccalauréat Scientifique International Anglophone at Collège-Lycée International Honoré de Balzac
Brevet de Technicien Supérieur Informatique de Gestion, Brevet de Technicien Supérieur Informatique de Gestion at CEFP — Centre Européen de Formation Professionnelle
A Ruby static code analyzer and formatter, based on the community Ruby style guide.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:9 commits, 8 PRs, 22 comments in 3 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Sunny primarily contributes to the RuboCop project by enhancing the code analysis and linting features. Their work involves implementing new rules (cops) for code style, such as the `Bundler/GemComment` cop, and modifying existing ones, like `Rails/FilePath` and `Rails/Delegate`, to improve code quality and consistency. Furthermore, they update the project documentation and codebase for security and English language.
Contributions:28 commits, 5 comments in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Sunny primarily focused on refactoring and improving the `gollum-lib` project's codebase. They addressed whitespace issues and standardized encoding across the Ruby files. Furthermore, the user removed the `gitcode` functionality, replacing it with a `uri`-based `remote_code` implementation, which involved significant changes to the `markup.rb` and related test files. Several test-related improvements were also included, such as better test assertions.
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