Damien Pobel
Senior Software Engineer at Hiboo
Hérépian, Occitania, France
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Top SchoolDamien Pobel is a senior software engineer based in Hérépian, France, with nearly two decades of experience building web platforms, APIs and admin interfaces across both front-end and back-end stacks. He has led UI teams and shipped major CMS and PWA products—most notably driving the eZ Platform admin rewrites and contributing editor improvements to the popular AlloyEditor project. Comfortable from system administration to microservices and serverless architectures, Damien blends hands-on coding (React, Node.js, PHP/Symfony) with architectural leadership and team mentoring. He has a track record of improving reliability and developer practices in startups and product companies, and maintains practical open-source work such as a GitHub-enhancing Greasemonkey script. Trained as an engineer in computer sciences and electronics, he brings a pragmatic, product-focused approach to complex integration and usability challenges.
19 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Lycée LalandeEngineer's degree Computer sciences electronics, Engineer's degree Computer sciences electronics at National School of Applied Science and TechnologyLycée Edgar Quinet
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Github Skills (19)
content-management-system10
cms10
javascript10
back-end-development10
regex10
ui-design10
ckeditor10
uid10
php10
front-end-development10
react10
cm10
testing9
mvc-architecture9
html9
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
dpobel/github-add-youtube-video
Feb 2016 - Feb 2016
A Greasemonkey script to better integrate Youtube videos in Github markdown (pull requests, issues, comments, ...).
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:8 commits, 1 PR, 4 pushes in 1 day
Contributions summary:Damien primarily focused on enhancing GitHub's markdown editor by integrating YouTube video embedding functionality using a Greasemonkey script. They implemented a button to add YouTube videos and wrote the code to parse YouTube URLs and generate the correct Markdown syntax for embedded videos with thumbnails. They updated the code to use HTTPS for fetching thumbnails and corrected the regular expression for valid YouTube video IDs. This work improved the usability of the markdown editor by allowing direct integration of YouTube videos.
greasemonkeymarkdownyoutube
ezsystems/ezpublish-kernel
Jun 2011 - Jul 2017
Kernel (Repository, MVC layer, REST) for eZ Platform
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:254 commits, 22 PRs, 14 pushes in 6 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Damien primarily focused on modifying and extending the eZ Publish kernel, particularly within the context of the repository and MVC layer. Their work included implementing exception handling for dynamic properties, adapting content services, and adding functionality for location management and subtree operations. Furthermore, they implemented features to use setProperty/getProperty to handle dynamic properties. The user’s contributions are essential for the content management system's core functionality.
ezplatformkernelmvcrest
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