Fabien Dubosson
Senior Data Engineer
Sierre, Wallis, Switzerland
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Fabien Dubosson is a Senior Data Engineer with 12 years of experience, currently building data platforms and analytics at FAIRTIQ in Switzerland after progressing there from research and data engineering roles. He combines a solid academic foundation in computer science with hands-on software development and eHealth research experience, delivering production-ready systems that bridge research and product. An active open-source contributor, he has enhanced widely used editor tooling such as Spacemacs and VSpaceCode, improving ergonomics through custom keybindings and workflow automation. Based in Sierre, he brings a pragmatic, full-stack mindset to data engineering—comfortable from data pipelines to developer tooling—and a knack for streamlining developer experience informed by long-term contributions to editor ecosystems.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Technical Professional Maturity, Technical Professional Maturity at Centre de Formation Professionelle SionMaster of Science (M.Sc.) Computer Science, Master of Science (M.Sc.) Computer Science at Université de Fribourg - Universität FreiburgApprenticeship Technical drawing, Apprenticeship Technical drawing at EPSIC École professionelle de LausanneBachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.) Business Information Technology, Bachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.) Business Information Technology at HES-SO Valais-Wallis
French, English
Github Skills (17)
evil-mode10
configuration-management10
document-generation10
emacs-lisp10
helm10
configuration-file10
spacemacs10
configurations10
documents10
documentation10
restructuredtext9
yaml9
python8
json8
markdown7
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
VSpaceCode/VSpaceCode
May 2017 - Jun 2020
Spacemacs like keybindings for Visual Studio Code
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:51 commits, 22 PRs, 92 pushes in 3 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Fabien primarily contributed to the development and maintenance of keybindings for Visual Studio Code, which included implementing features for Spacemacs-like keybindings. Their work involved creating scripts to generate settings and documentation files, integrating these configurations within the project, and updating the project's README to reflect changes in keybindings and installation procedures. The user's contributions also encompassed fixing formatting and improving the presentation of the project's documentation.
configurationvisual-studio-codekakounevscodevscode-extension
syl20bnr/spacemacs
Sep 2015 - Feb 2018
A community-driven Emacs distribution - The best editor is neither Emacs nor Vim, it's Emacs *and* Vim!
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:173 commits, 188 PRs, 42 pushes in 2 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Fabien contributed to the Spacemacs configuration, primarily focusing on enhancing the user experience and adding new functionalities. They implemented new keybindings for existing features like `neotree`, `helm-spacemacs`, and `avy-open-url`, streamlining common tasks. Further contributions include adding new features, such as a scratch buffer and text justification bindings, along with improvements to existing ones, such as the output formatting of `count-words-analysis`. The user also made significant contributions to the bepo keyboard layout layer.
configurationvimspacemacsemacsemacs-lsp
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