Christophe Schermesser
Senior Software Engineer at Kasvu Labs
Espoo, Finland
Summary
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Top SchoolChristophe Schermesser is a Senior Software Engineer based in Espoo, Finland with 18 years of experience building backend systems, cloud migrations and scalable web services across industries from gaming to energy. He combines hands-on engineering and test automation—evidenced by contributions to the widely-used spotify/scio Scala API for Apache Beam where he improved features and made the testing framework more extensible—and front-end UX work such as enhancing Algolia search on the Scala docs site. Christophe has led small teams and served as lead developer and architect on Java web platforms, and he routinely bridges backend, DevOps and frontend concerns to deliver reliable production systems. Known for pragmatic refactors and improving testability, he brings deep Scala and Java expertise plus a track record of shipping across startups and larger organisations.
17 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
As part of my master studies, Information Technology, As part of my master studies, Information Technology at Trinity College, DublinMaster, Computer Science, Master, Computer Science at Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1
French, English, Spanish, Finnish
Github Skills (19)
javascript10
dataflow-programming10
algolia10
dataflow10
testing10
css10
autocomplete10
scala10
apache-beam10
test-framework9
ui-design9
html8
streaming8
batch-processing8
data-set7
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
scala/docs.scala-lang
Nov 2015 - Feb 2016
The Scala Documentation website
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:7 commits, 3 PRs, 8 comments in 3 months
Contributions summary:Christophe focused on improving the user interface and functionality of the Scala documentation website. Their primary contributions involved implementing and refining the Algolia search feature within the site's header. This included adding the search bar, updating credentials, refining the user interface, and enhancing the display of search results. The user's work is reflected in CSS and JavaScript files that implement the autocomplete functionality.
documentation-websitescalascala-documentation
spotify/scio
Jul 2016 - Feb 2017
A Scala API for Apache Beam and Google Cloud Dataflow.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:11 commits, 12 PRs, 60 comments in 6 months
Contributions summary:Christophe primarily contributed to enhancing the Scio library, a Scala API for Apache Beam. Their work included adding features such as compression type specification for text files and skewing to timestampBy. They also focused on improving the testing framework by adding an assertion message and allowing the usage of different ScalaTest specs. Furthermore, the user refactored parts of the testing framework, making it more extensible with setup and teardown functionalities.
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