Emmanuel Bréton
CTO at Cortexia
Châtel-Saint-Denis, Fribourg, Switzerland
Summary
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Top SchoolEmmanuel Bréton is a seasoned CTO and product-minded engineering leader with 12+ years building resilient web platforms and cross-functional teams from Lausanne to Switzerland. He blends hands-on backend and DevOps experience—evident in contributions to notable open-source projects like the FastAPI full-stack template—with a pragmatic product focus honed at Frontiers, EPFL and as an entrepreneur. Emmanuel champions psychological safety, iterative delivery and fine-grained problem decomposition to help teams ship quickly and with pride. He has led large technical modernizations (institutional repositories, auth platforms, message queues) and guided organizations through Scrum adoption and microservices decomposition. Based in Châtel-Saint-Denis, he pairs empathy-driven people leadership with practical engineering fixes that reduce technical debt and speed delivery.
12 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Inégnieur généraliste - Diplôme Télécom Bretagne, Inégnieur généraliste - Diplôme Télécom Bretagne at IMT AtlantiqueMaster's degree, Master's degree at Telecom Bretagne
English, Spanish
Github Skills (19)
fastapi10
docker10
postgresql10
pytest10
python10
apidoc10
testing10
dockers10
api10
sqlalchemy10
geocoding10
geolocation10
cicd9
open-source9
crud9
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
DenisCarriere/geocoder
Jul 2017 - Jun 2018
:earth_asia: Python Geocoder
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:195 commits, 27 PRs, 111 pushes in 10 months
Contributions summary:Emmanuel primarily focused on improving the codebase's maintainability and consistency. They fixed flake8 errors, addressing import issues and code style violations. The contributions included adding tests for the geonames provider and enhancing the code for compatibility with Python 2.7. Furthermore, the user refactored the code to support multiple results and added new features for the geonames provider.
pythongeospatiallgbtgeocodingearth
fastapi/full-stack-fastapi-template
Apr 2019 - Jan 2020
Full stack, modern web application template. Using FastAPI, React, SQLModel, PostgreSQL, Docker, GitHub Actions, automatic HTTPS and more.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:8 commits, 14 PRs, 56 comments in 9 months
Contributions summary:Emmanuel primarily contributed to the back-end infrastructure and functionality of the FastAPI template. They upgraded Python versions, fixed SQLAlchemy database connection issues, and refactored PostgreSQL URL configurations using f-strings. Furthermore, the user implemented testing enhancements by integrating pytest arguments from the shell and by adding normal-user fixtures. They also made changes to the Dockerfiles related to the backend, celeryworker, and tests, and added base class to simplify CRUD operations.
pythonflaskweb-applicationvueopenapi
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