Gregory Favre
Conseiller Municipal at Beyond the Wall
Genolier, Vaud, Switzerland
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Top SchoolGregory Favre is a Swiss software engineer and civic leader with 13 years of experience building web and backend systems for fintechs, public services and SMEs while serving in elected municipal roles in Genolier. He leads development and architecture efforts at Beyond the Wall and Twist Lab, delivering transactional and onboarding systems, cloud migrations, and a municipal sports/activity platform used by multiple towns. At EPFL and CERN he ran institutional-scale repositories and conference media tools, combining systems administration, automated deployment and team leadership. An active open-source contributor, he improved the widely used Python Faker library by localizing and enhancing Swiss French providers, making synthetic data more realistic for francophone contexts. Equally comfortable in council chambers and codebases, he focuses on finance, high-pressure water systems and IT for his municipality, bringing practical governance insight to technology decisions.
13 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer science, BS Computer science at College of Engineering and Architecture of FribourgMaturité Fédérale Latin-anglais, Maturité Fédérale Latin-anglais at CESSouestEPFL
French, English, German
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (5)
data-generation10
localization10
faker10
python10
testing6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
joke2k/faker
Apr 2016 - Apr 2016
Faker is a Python package that generates fake data for you.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Localization Specialist
Back-end Developer & Localization SpecialistContributions:5 commits, 1 PR, 3 comments in 6 days
Contributions summary:Gregory primarily contributed to localizing the Faker library, focusing on Swiss French (fr_CH) and French (fr_FR) locales. Their work involved adding new providers, including jobs and address-related data like street and city prefixes, and modifying existing locales to correct inconsistencies. Additionally, they addressed an issue related to city prefix handling and removed deprecated functions, ensuring Python 3 compatibility. These changes significantly improved the library's utility for generating realistic localized data.
pythontest-datatestingdummy-datadataset
gfavre/beyondthewall.ch
Jan 2014 - Aug 2022
Contributions:98 commits, 34 pushes, 1 branch in 8 years 8 months
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