Germain Chazot
Senior Software Engineer at SWISSTRAFFIC Inc.
Earth, Texas, Switzerland
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Top SchoolGermain Chazot is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building high-quality Linux, Python and C++ systems and maturing cloud-native stacks. He has led technical efforts across travel, gaming and retail intelligence—most recently shaping architecture and delivery as Principal Engineer at EDITED and now scaling SWISSTRAFFIC’s engineering platform. Equally comfortable in deep backend code and DevOps, he contributes to notable open-source tooling like pyinfra, improving package handling, Unicode logging and operational robustness for large fleets. Germain pairs a pragmatic focus on clean code and customer satisfaction with hands-on expertise in Docker/OpenShift, performance optimization and production migrations. Trained originally in mechanical engineering, he brings a methodical, systems-thinking approach that surfaces unexpected reliability gains in complex distributed systems.
11 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Engineering (M.Eng.), Mechanical Engineering, Master of Engineering (M.Eng.), Mechanical Engineering at INSA Lyon - Institut National des Sciences Appliquées de Lyon
English, French, German
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Github Skills (21)
python10
mysql10
configuration-management10
infrastructure10
cloud-manager9
remote-execution9
cli8
command-line-interface8
command-line8
testing8
git7
deb7
html6
eclipse6
timezone6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
pyinfra-dev/pyinfra
Apr 2019 - Dec 2022
pyinfra turns Python code into shell commands and runs them on your servers. Execute ad-hoc commands and write declarative operations. Target SSH servers, local machine and Docker containers. Fast and scales from one server to thousands.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:1 review, 12 commits, 12 PRs in 3 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Germain's contributions focused on enhancing the pyinfra infrastructure management tool. Their work included adding features like allowing downgrading of Debian packages and supporting Unicode logging, as well as fixing bugs related to network interface detection and filesystem synchronization. They also made improvements to the CLI options for better usability and fixed bugs in MySQL operations, showcasing their understanding of both the core functionality and operational aspects of the tool.
pythonautomatescloud-managementconfiguration-managementservice-deployment
gchazot/oneevent-sandbox
May 2020 - Oct 2024
Sample website for the OneEvent Django application
Contributions:74 PRs, 90 pushes, 72 branches in 4 years 6 months
pythondjangodjango-blogforumsdjango-application
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