Benjamin Sans
Greater Lille Metropolitan Area France
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Top SchoolBenjamin Sans is a seasoned FOSS engineer with 14 years of experience in GNU/Linux administration, system programming and DevOps, grounded in a Computer Science degree from Université des Sciences et Technologies de Lille. Certified RHCSA/RHCE and ITIL-certified, he has designed and operated open-source infrastructures for clients ranging up to very large enterprises. An active contributor to notable Python projects like Trio and Flask-RESTX/RESTPlus, he focuses on CI/CD automation, release engineering and robust backend fixes that improve developer workflows and library reliability. He also contributes pragmatic tooling and dotfile automation improvements (dotdrop) and has published technical articles on pfsense and Sentry. Comfortable explaining complex topics, he regularly delivers trainings on messaging architectures, virtualization, backups and DevOps methodologies. A longtime community advocate, he blends hands-on systems expertise with a passion for teaching and open-source collaboration.
14 years of coding experience
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Operating Systems, Computer networks, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Operating Systems, Computer networks at Université des Sciences et Technologies de Lille (Lille I)
English, French
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Github Skills (46)
json10
api-rest10
github-ci10
python10
api-design10
triplestore10
marshalling10
async10
restful-api10
testing10
configuration-management10
tripledes10
triple10
swagger10
dotfile10
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
python-restx/flask-restx
Jan 2020 - Nov 2022
Fork of Flask-RESTPlus: Fully featured framework for fast, easy and documented API development with Flask
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:5 releases, 25 reviews, 76 commits in 2 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Benjamin's contributions primarily focused on improving the release process and CI/CD infrastructure for the Flask-RESTX project. They implemented automated releases on PyPi using Travis-CI and GitHub Actions and simplified the release process using `bumpr`. They also made updates to the project's documentation and configuration files. Additionally, the user added a strict validation feature to the model definition and optimized the email regex.
apipythonflask-apirestfulflask
noirbizarre/flask-restplus
Mar 2017 - Jan 2020
Fully featured framework for fast, easy and documented API development with Flask
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:30 commits, 13 PRs, 20 pushes in 2 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Benjamin primarily contributed to the `flask-restplus` library by implementing and improving the `Wildcard` field functionality. Their work involved adding features such as support for nested fields, lists, and proper schema definitions. They also refactored the marshalling process to improve performance and expanded test coverage, ensuring the stability and correctness of the wildcard field.
apipythonflask-apirestfulflask
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