Étienne Gilli
Chargé D Études Flore-Habitats
Annecy, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France
Summary
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Top SchoolÉtienne Gilli is a former software engineer turned conservation specialist who blends nearly 15 years of backend engineering experience with formal training (BTSA) and fieldwork in biodiversity. Now Chargé d’études Flore‑Habitats at Asters in Haute‑Savoie, he conducts botanical and habitat surveys, maps natural areas with QGIS, and runs monitoring protocols for patrimonial species and invasive plants. His technical rigor and data-handling skills—honed contributing backend fixes to the popular Wallabag project—inform robust data workflows and reproducible field analyses. Comfortable moving between codebases and mountain wetlands, he aims to support territorial projects, deepen naturalist expertise, and engage diverse publics in environmental education.
10 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Brevet de technicien supérieur agricole (BTSA), Gestion et Protection de la Nature, Brevet de technicien supérieur agricole (BTSA), Gestion et Protection de la Nature at L'Institut Agro DijonDiplôme d'ingénieur, IT & Computer Engineering, Diplôme d'ingénieur, IT & Computer Engineering at Institut national des Sciences appliquées de Lyon
Github Skills (11)
symfony-ux10
php10
epub10
symfony10
pdf9
restful-api7
api-design7
api-rest7
rest-api7
self-hosting7
reader6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
wallabag/wallabag
Sep 2016 - Mar 2019
wallabag is a self hostable application for saving web pages: Save and classify articles. Read them later. Freely.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 5 PRs, 6 comments in 2 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Étienne primarily contributed to the back-end logic of the wallabag application, focusing on export functionality. They fixed a bug related to epub export, specifically handling special characters in titles. Additionally, the user updated the export feature to dynamically set the author based on the source article's domain or publisher and simplified related code for better readability. The work impacted the generation of export files in various formats (epub, mobi, pdf) and also touched upon adjustments for the "baggy" theme's export links.
read-it-laterread-articlesdjangophpfreely
egilli/wallabag
Sep 2016 - Aug 2017
Contributions:19 pushes, 16 branches in 11 months
djangowallabagphphostable
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