Clément Desableau is a French front-end engineer with seven years of experience building user-focused web interfaces, particularly on open-source projects. During multiple roles at XWiki he progressed from intern to R&D engineer, contributing Vue.js components and UX-driven features like table/card layouts and date-range pickers. He also improved the CryptPad collaborative suite, fixing chat scrolling bugs and adding language/theme previews and drive UX enhancements for an end-to-end encrypted office product. Based in Greater Paris, he combines a strong engineering education with a pragmatic, curiosity-driven approach—preferring tangible UI improvements that measurably improve collaboration. Notably, his contributions span both enterprise wiki platforms and privacy-first collaborative tools, showing versatility across public and secure web apps.
6 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Engineer's degree, Computer and Information Sciences, General, Engineer's degree, Computer and Information Sciences, General at Ecole internationale des Sciences du Traitement de l'Information
Baccalauréat in Science, Highest honours, European section, Baccalauréat in Science, Highest honours, European section at Lycée Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Contributions:21 reviews, 193 commits, 22 PRs in 2 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Clément implemented features related to a basic table layout and data display using Vue.js within the XWiki platform. The commits involved the creation of a mock data file, the development of a table layout structure with Vue.js components, and the addition of a dropdown menu for switching between table and card layouts. The focus was on the integration of a date picker with a range to allow a user to modify date values and display them in the table.
Collaborative office suite, end-to-end encrypted and open-source.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Contributions:190 commits, 4 PRs, 107 pushes in 2 months
Contributions summary:Clément primarily contributed to the user interface of the Cryptpad collaborative office suite. Their work focused on fixing chat-related scroll bugs, ensuring new messages and the chat window would scroll to the bottom. They also added functionality such as adding language and theme selection with interactive previews, and implementing features to improve the user experience within the drive, including context menu improvements and folder upload functionality, and fixes for visual aspects like tooltips.
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