Denis Gervalle
Information System Assistant
Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
Summary
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Top SchoolDenis Gervalle is an experienced IT professional with over 30 years in technology and 16 years of focused experience delivering web-based data dissemination systems for UNCTAD from Geneva. He combines hands-on backend development—contributing to the popular open-source XWiki platform—with front-end work improving PDF export workflows in Storyboarder, showing fluency across the stack. As founder and CEO of SOFTEC he ran product, ops and client services, giving him rare end-to-end ownership from infrastructure to customer-facing software. His career spans public-sector statistical projects at Eurostat and enterprise systems development, reflecting deep expertise in multilingual data delivery and migration. Known for pragmatic problem-solving, he improves internal APIs and security handling while preserving usability for data consumers.
16 years of coding experience
29 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Computer science, Computing and Systems - Industrial Computing, Great distinction, Bachelor of Computer science, Computing and Systems - Industrial Computing, Great distinction at The Higher Education Institution Rennequin Sualem
French, English
Github Skills (20)
printing10
print10
javascript10
electron10
java10
javas10
storyboard10
hibernate10
pdf-generation10
api-design9
database-migrations9
ui-design9
object-oriented-programming9
front-end-development9
uid9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
xwiki/xwiki-platform
Apr 2010 - Nov 2017
The XWiki platform
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:436 commits, 69 pushes, 1 tag in 7 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Denis primarily contributed to backend development tasks within the XWiki platform. Their commits involved fixing bugs related to object handling, managing security access, and enhancing data migration processes. The user also worked on improving the internal APIs.
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wonderunit/storyboarder
Nov 2017 - Nov 2017
✏️ Storyboarder makes it easy to visualize a story as fast you can draw stick figures.
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 2 PRs, 2 comments in 15 days
Contributions summary:Denis focused on enhancing the PDF export functionality within the Storyboarder application. Their work involved implementing features such as A4/Letter format support, customizable row/column configurations, and portrait/landscape layout options. They also added a preview display for the PDF export and integrated it with the printing workflow, including the option to export the storyboard as a PDF. The user also made code changes to improve PDF generation based on user input.
filmmakingstoryboardingmoviesreactfountain
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