Damien Baty
Software Engineer at Polyconseil
France
Summary
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Top SchoolDamien Baty is a seasoned software engineer based in France with 13 years of professional experience building and maintaining web applications, largely using Python and Plone/Zope stacks. Currently at Polyconseil, he brings deep hands-on expertise in legacy application rewrites, integrations and pragmatic project leadership developed through roles spanning consultancy, UN work, and agency environments. He contributes to notable open-source tooling like pgcli, improving core functionality, UX and maintainability—work that included removing Python 2 support and adding safety checks for transactions. Comfortable in multinational teams and client-facing roles, he combines strong autonomy with clear communication skills honed as a consultant and project manager. Pragmatic and detail-oriented, he has a track record of turning complex functional requirements into robust, maintainable systems.
14 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Information technology, computer science, Information technology, computer science at EPITA: Ecole d'Ingénieurs en Informatique
Github Skills (8)
databases10
postgresql10
sql10
back-end-development10
python10
database10
configuration-management9
testing8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
dbcli/pgcli
Mar 2023 - May 2026
Postgres CLI with autocompletion and syntax highlighting
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:10 reviews, 9 PRs, 8 pushes in 3 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Damien focused on improving the core functionality and maintainability of the pgcli project. Their contributions include refactoring code to remove Python 2 support, implementing new configuration options such as destructive statement transaction requirement and fixing the prompt display for short hosts. The user also addressed a bug related to the display of query durations and contributed to the user interface by adding a feature which asks the user to confirm whether to quit if a transaction is ongoing.
clipostgresqlsyntax-highlightingpythonpostgres
Polyconseil/xlsx_streaming
Nov 2019 - Mar 2021
Stream data as xlsx
Contributions:6 reviews, 15 commits, 7 PRs in 1 year 4 months
xlsx
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