Guillermo Polito
Chargé De Recherche at Inria
Lille, Hauts-de-France
Summary
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Top SchoolGuillermo Polito is a research-focused software engineer with 14 years of experience specializing in compilers, automated testing and the Pharo Smalltalk ecosystem. Currently a Chargé de Recherche at Inria after research roles at CNRS and a postdoc at VUB, he blends academic rigor (PhD in Computer Science) with practical DevOps and automation work on core open-source projects. He has deep hands-on experience improving build and release pipelines for the flagship Pharo VM and tooling, troubleshooting CI environments like Jenkins and integrating artifact distribution. Beyond research, his background spans teaching advanced programming and designing distributed, high-load systems in industry, giving him a rare cross-cutting view from low-level language runtimes to production deployment. Colleagues value him for shipping robust automation in niche language communities while advancing foundational research in language tooling.
14 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Ingeniero, Sistemas de Información, Ingeniero, Sistemas de Información at Universidad Tecnológica NacionalDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at Ecole des Mines de Douai
Spanish, English, French, Japanese
Github Skills (14)
pharo10
tooling10
automation10
bash10
automations10
automation-testing10
cicd9
object-oriented-programming9
bootstrap9
lang9
bootstra9
git9
dockers7
docker7
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
pharo-project/pharo
Jul 2016 - Jan 2023
Pharo is a dynamic reflective pure object-oriented language supporting live programming inspired by Smalltalk.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & Automation Engineer
DevOps Engineer & Automation EngineerContributions:1 release, 242 reviews, 1174 commits in 6 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Guillermo primarily focused on automating the build and deployment process for the Pharo project. Their contributions involved creating and modifying scripts for exporting source code, managing dependencies, and integrating with Bintray for artifact distribution. They implemented and refined build scripts, added options for specifying the architecture, and improved the overall build and release pipeline, addressing issues with Jenkins and other build environments.
pharoobject-oriented-programminglive-programmingreflectivesmalltalk
guillep/Spec
Jan 2019 - Mar 2025
Spec is a framework in Pharo for describing user interfaces.
Contributions:17 pushes, 37 branches in 6 years 2 months
pharodsldeclarativespecuser-interfaces
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