Fabien Roussel is a data engineer and senior consultant based in Paris with 11 years of experience specializing in automotive and embedded systems as well as data-driven product work. He blends hands-on engineering (Python, Django, Pandas, TensorFlow) with full-stack contributions—evidenced by Perl/JS/HTML fixes to the popular Open Food Facts project—showing comfort across backend and frontend code. At OCTO Technology he has delivered end-to-end data platforms, feature engineering and visualization tools, and production pipelines for public sector and enterprise clients while applying TDD and clean-code practices. He has taught business intelligence at university level, pairing practitioner experience with the ability to explain data engineering concepts to diverse audiences. Comfortable in agile teams, Fabien moves between rapid prototyping and production hardening, often turning messy operational data into actionable KPIs and dashboards. Colleagues describe him as pragmatic and curious—someone who treats engineering as a craft and open source as a responsibility.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Engineering Diploma High Tech Ingineering, Engineering Diploma High Tech Ingineering at ECE. Ecole d'ingénieurs. Engineering School.
Heriot-Watt University Edinburgh Campus
High School Diploma - French Baccalauréat General Série Scientifique, High School Diploma - French Baccalauréat General Série Scientifique at Lycée Michelet
Open Food Facts database, API server and web interface - 🐪🦋 Perl, CSS and JS coders welcome 😊 For helping in Python, see Robotoff or taxonomy-editor
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Contributions:45 commits, 12 PRs, 17 pushes in 2 months
Contributions summary:Fabien contributed to the Open Food Facts server by modifying Perl code, HTML, and JavaScript files. Their commits focused on both frontend and backend aspects, including CSS and HTML refactoring. The user implemented a button-group and tag list overflow management and removed a useless slash in HTML5.
Contributions:189 reviews, 334 PRs, 655 pushes in 10 months
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Fabien Roussel - Consultant Senior at OCTO Technology