Baptiste Fontaine
Software Engineer at Bixoto
Paris, Ile-de-France
Summary
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Top SchoolBaptiste Fontaine is a pragmatic software engineer based in Paris with 14 years of experience building backend systems, data pipelines and developer tools across startups, research labs and large open-source projects. He has strong Clojure, Python and Ruby skills—designing catalogue normalization pipelines, contributing bug fixes and tooling to Homebrew, and improving developer UX with shell completion and test automation. At Oscaro he bridged R&D and product engineering, mentoring juniors and leading workshops while shaping the purchase funnel and data workflows. His open-source work ranges from maintaining Homebrew to shipping a terminal 2048 implementation with robust move/merge logic and test coverage, showing attention to correctness and developer ergonomics. Colleagues know him for turning messy data and system complexity into reliable, well-tested tools.
14 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree of Computer Science, Informatique, Bachelor’s Degree of Computer Science, Informatique at Université Denis Diderot (Paris VII)
English, French, Italian, neapolitan
Stackoverflow
18,822reputation
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cmake
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macos
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python
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homebrew
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Github Skills (42)
unit-testing10
formula10
python10
package-management10
scripting10
testing10
command-line-interface10
autocomplete10
bash10
build-system10
ruby10
homebrew10
script10
formulas10
command-line10
Programming languages (35)
Github contributions (5)
bfontaine/term2048
Mar 2014 - Mar 2022
:tada: 2048 in your terminal
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:229 commits, 4 PRs, 35 pushes in 8 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Baptiste primarily focused on developing and testing the core logic of the 2048 game in the terminal. They implemented the `move` function, which handles tile movement, and fixed several merge issues related to collapsing tiles. The user also added tests to improve the game's functionality and implemented a `canMove` method. Their contributions involved significant code changes and testing efforts to enhance the game's behavior.
terminaltuicli
Homebrew/legacy-homebrew
Jul 2013 - Mar 2016
💀 The former home of Homebrew/homebrew (deprecated)
Role in this project:Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:968 commits, 1533 PRs, 768 pushes in 2 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Adam Vandenberg contributed to building several new formulas and improving existing ones in this Homebrew repository, a deprecated system for package management. His work included implementing formulas for packages like 'cattle', 'safe-rm', 'plantuml', and 'sfml', involving building processes, archive downloads, and test functionality. Additionally, he addressed reported issues by updating existing formulas with fixes.
macoshomebrew
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