Christophe Dervieux
Software Engineer at https://posit.co
Paris, Ile-de-France
Summary
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RockstarChristophe Dervieux is a Paris-based software engineer with a decade of experience specializing in the R Markdown and Quarto publishing ecosystems, currently contributing at Posit/Quarto. He combines full-stack development with build/release and DevOps expertise—improving rendering, CI pipelines, installers, and cross-platform tooling for projects like quarto-cli, rmarkdown, tinytex and bookdown. Christophe is pragmatic about compatibility and automation, having implemented Pandoc integrations, GitHub auth flows, GitHub Actions builds, and a daily TinyTeX bundling process. He pairs technical writing and documentation improvements with hands-on fixes (image handling, reveal.js styling, pagebreaks and LaTeX templates), which makes his work both developer- and user-facing. A detail-oriented contributor, he also adds tests and edge-case handling that prevent regressions across widely used open-source publishing tools.
10 years of coding experience
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Github Skills (49)
markdown10
gitbook10
github-ci10
hugo10
javascript10
reveal-js10
github10
r-package10
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package-development10
css10
cicd10
knitr10
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Programming languages (29)
Github contributions (5)
rstudio/rticles
Aug 2020 - Dec 2022
LaTeX Journal Article Templates for R Markdown
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:6 releases, 258 reviews, 135 commits in 2 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Christophe contributed to the project by updating the documentation and templates for creating articles. The commits focused on modifying the documentation to use Markdown syntax, correcting URLs, and adjusting the structure and content of the LaTeX templates. These changes improved the clarity and usability of the documentation, making it easier for users to understand and utilize the project's features.
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rstudio/rmarkdown-cookbook
Sep 2018 - Nov 2022
R Markdown Cookbook. A range of tips and tricks to make better use of R Markdown.
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:27 reviews, 65 commits, 37 PRs in 4 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Christophe primarily contributed to the project by enhancing the R Markdown cookbook. Their work included adding new features, such as the "cat engine" and verbatim and embed engines. The user also automated the build and deployment process by integrating GitHub Actions. Furthermore, they made CSS styling adjustments for better visual consistency.
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