Damien Pollet
Assistant Professor (maître De Conférences) at Université des Sciences et Technologies de Lille
Lille, Hauts-de-France
Summary
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RockstarDamien Pollet is an assistant professor and researcher with 18 years of experience specializing in object-oriented design, metamodeling, software reengineering and visualization, now extending into programming language design. Based in Lille and active in the RMod group at Inria, he focuses on making software simpler to develop and maintain by identifying and removing unnecessary complexity rather than piling on new tools. He combines academic research and teaching with hands-on craftsmanship in Smalltalk and practical open-source contributions, such as refactoring and performance improvements to the nanoc web-publishing CLI. His background spans postdoctoral work on software evolution and architecture in European labs, giving him a rare blend of deep theoretical knowledge and pragmatic code-level fixes.
18 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Stackoverflow
6,518reputation
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Github Skills (19)
static-site-generator10
command-line-interface10
ruby10
latex10
command-line10
cli10
testing9
sass9
word-wrap9
bibtex6
vim6
mkdir6
emacs6
git-svn6
git6
Programming languages (22)
Github contributions (5)
nanoc/nanoc
Oct 2012 - Mar 2013
A powerful web publishing system
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:17 commits, 5 comments, 1 issue in 4 months
Contributions summary:Damien primarily focused on refactoring and improving the Nanoc CLI, a web publishing system. Their contributions involved removing unused code, lazily initializing constants to improve performance, and refactoring command setup for easier maintenance. Additionally, the user addressed a bug in the link collector by ignoring anchors without `href` attributes and added a test case to confirm the fix. They also updated the Sass filter to include an updated SassFilesystemImporter.
cmspublishingphprubynanoc
cdlm/pharo-zeroconf
Apr 2015 - Oct 2019
ZeroConf script generator for http://get.pharo.org
Contributions:1 push, 4 branches in 4 years 6 months
pharoazerothcorescript-generatorhttp-getzeroconf
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