Guillaume Villena
Engineer At Thales Alenia Space
France
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Top SchoolGuillaume Villena is a software engineer at Thales Alenia Space with 13 years of hands-on experience spanning front-end development, scripting, and embedded/enterprise projects cultivated through an engineering apprenticeship at IMT Atlantique. He contributes to notable open-source projects like Grafana, improving UI components and UX behaviors, and has enhanced web audio tooling and Photoshop export automation—demonstrating a mix of product-focused polish and practical scripting skills. At Thales he progressed from apprentice to engineer, combining telecoms and software know-how applied to aerospace contexts. Guillaume’s strengths are pragmatic front-end engineering, attention to UI detail, and the ability to refactor and extend legacy scripts for better performance. He is based in France and brings a pattern of shipping measurable UX improvements across both commercial and open-source codebases. An under-the-radar asset is his knack for bridging low-level automation (Photoshop scripting) with polished web interfaces, making him effective across the full delivery chain.
13 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Engineering diploma in apprenticeship, Engineering diploma in apprenticeship at IMT AtlantiqueDUT (2 years degree), DUT (2 years degree) at Université Nice Sophia AntipolisA Level, A Level at Lycée Simone Veil, Valbonne
French, English, Spanish
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Github Skills (26)
javascript10
typescript10
ui-design10
exporter10
uid10
web-audio-api10
front-end-development10
typescript-types10
audio-player10
exports10
typescripts10
adobe10
react10
data-visualizations9
data-visualisation9
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
antipalindrome/Photoshop-Export-Layers-to-Files-Fast
Aug 2018 - Sep 2018
This script allows you to export your layers as individual files at a speed much faster than the built-in script from Adobe.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:45 commits, 1 PR, 4 comments in 17 days
Contributions summary:Guillaume primarily contributed to the development of a Photoshop script for exporting layers. Their work involved refactoring the existing code, adding features like scaling and padding, and enhancing the user interface with new settings. They implemented functionality to merge top-level groups and incorporate options to export the first layer as a foreground. The user's commits demonstrate expertise in scripting and extending the functionality of Adobe Photoshop.
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grafana/grafana
Mar 2021 - Nov 2022
The open and composable observability and data visualization platform. Visualize metrics, logs, and traces from multiple sources like Prometheus, Loki, Elasticsearch, InfluxDB, Postgres and many more.
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:1 review, 10 commits, 8 PRs in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Guillaume primarily contributed to the Grafana UI, implementing and modifying front-end components. Their work included enhancements to the `SegmentAsync` component, adding support for custom "no options" messages and modifying the functionality and testing of the `isNumeric` function. Furthermore, the user addressed issues related to annotation panels, specifically ensuring proper time display and handling user interaction via the `Ctrl` key. This demonstrates a focus on improving user experience and functionality within the Grafana interface.
visualizeobservabilitybusiness-intelligencegrafanaprometheus
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