About Sébastien
Senior Software Engineer with 20+ years in low-level systems development across Linux and legacy UNIX environments.
Strong expertise in C, runtime internals, and cross-platform infrastructure tools.
Experienced in debugging, agent deployment, and rewriting legacy runtime systems for modern DevOps.
Adept at collaborating across design and product, with a background in supporting open source tooling and automation workflows.
French
Native or bilingual
English
Fluent
Remote only
Primarily works remotely
Experience
- Sorbonne Université / Institut de la Mer de Villefranche (LOV) VillefrancheSoftware Engineer & DevOpsRESEARCHJune 2023 - August 2025 (2 years and 2 months)Villefranche-sur-Mer, FranceZooProcess - (Future-Obs & iMagine projects)
- Designed and developed a web application to manage and process scienti]c images acquired from Jatbed scanners: Zooscan.
- Integrated AI-based segmentation through the Imagine-wp3 module.
- Frontend built with React/Next.js, featuring dynamically generated JSON-based forms.
- Image processing handled in Python using FastAPI, OpenCV, and scikit-image.
Cytosense - (ANERIS Project)The cytosense is a device build by CytobuoyPipeline from RAW data to Ecotaxa- Developed a pipeline for importing Cytosense flow cytometry data into Ecotaxa, the reference tool for plankton classification.
- Pipeline based on JSON schema to process data.
- Set up CI/CD to integrate Cyz2JSON tools and package the full pipeline with an installation script.
Cyz2JSON – a converter for transforming RAW Cytosense data into JSON format.- Refactored and merged C# codebases from two separate laboratories.
- Implemented CI/CD workflows to build the C# application and ensure multi-platform support (Linux, macOS, Windows).
EcotaxoGuide- Handled production deployment of EcotaxoGuide, a taxonomic guide platform.
- Packaged and deployed the service using Docker containers.
Server Administration- System administration of Dell servers: iDrac, shell scripting, user/group management, Samba, sudoers, NFS, RAID, and LVM.
- Implemented a watchdog to automatically recover from application crashes.
- Implemented file system monitoring and developed a Google Chat bot to alert users about their disk usage and remaining space.
- Installed and managed the Bacula backup system.
- Managed NGINX configuration and TLS certificate deployment for web services.
- Zabbix
Technologies: Python, JSON, C#, CI/CD, Docker, GitHub Action - ClavisFreelance Software Engineer - Freelance Software Engineer - Freelance Software EngineerDIGITAL AND ITJanuary 2025 - January 2025Antibes, FranceClavis is a translation and localization agency.Modification of the proprietary ERP system to handle new analysis file formats provided by clients. WinDev.Development of automation tools for cross-checking and verifying the consistency of purchase orders and invoices. Python.Website maintenance: www.clavis.fr (WordPress)
- Azoth SystemsFreelance Software EngineerMECHANICAL ENGINEERINGSeptember 2021 - September 2021Ollioules, FranceUpgraded backend to newer versions before the old ones became obsolete.Node.js and MongoDB.Security
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Education
- Artificial Intelligence for Everyone!CNAM2020MOOC Fun
- From Neurons to Psyche, Introduction to Biological and Artificial Neural Networks.MOOC Fun - Université Grenoble Alpes2019