Bastien Gérard
Principal Software Engineer at CluePoints
Brussels, Brussels-Capital, Belgium
Summary
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RockstarBastien Gérard is a Principal Software Engineer based in Brussels with a decade of hands-on experience building reliable back-end systems and mentoring engineering teams. A Python enthusiast and active open-source contributor, he has improved the MongoEngine ODM with bug fixes, performance tweaks, and better DBRef and embedded-document handling—work that speaks to his focus on maintainability and real-world robustness. At CluePoints he blends practical engineering with product-minded thinking, delivering scalable, testable solutions in regulated or data-sensitive contexts. Colleagues know him as a thoughtful problem-solver who pairs attention to documentation and tests with pragmatic code improvements. Outside work he balances engineering with family life as a dad, which informs a steady, long-term approach to software design.
10 years of coding experience
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Github Skills (14)
unit-testing10
python10
mongodb10
mongodb-database10
flask9
heroku9
git6
isort6
pullrequest6
github6
sqlalchemy6
git-checkout6
pymongo6
mongoengine6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
MongoEngine/mongoengine
Jan 2016 - Jan 2023
A Python Object-Document-Mapper for working with MongoDB
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:25 releases, 77 reviews, 644 commits in 7 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Bastien's contributions focused on bug fixes and minor improvements within the MongoDB object-document mapper, specifically within the context of a Python framework. They corrected typos in docstrings, addressed issues in unit tests related to document instances, and addressed an issue related to the handling of embedded documents within list fields, likely for the purpose of improving the reliability and maintainability of the library. Moreover, the user addressed an issue with the handling of DBRefs. The user also contributed by implementing some performance and code quality improvements in addition to fixing a bug.
mongodb-ormpythonmongodocument-mapperpython3
bagerard/flake8-in-file-ignores
Jul 2022 - Jan 2023
Contributions:7 releases, 14 commits, 7 PRs in 6 months
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