Hugo Poissonnet is a Staff Software Engineer based in Bayonne with 13 years of hands-on experience and a decade-plus track record in software development and technical leadership. Former CTO and co-founder of Monibrand, he blends startup grit with production engineering discipline now applied at Doctolib. He teaches Linux system administration and Bash to large cohorts, reflecting a strong foundation in systems and operations alongside application architecture. An active open-source contributor, Hugo has improved Puppeteer-based scraping tooling by adding tests, HTML output, and robust proxy/user-agent handling, showing attention to quality and edge-case reliability. Known for a pragmatic, slightly grumpy humor, he’s a code craftsman who prefers maintainable, testable solutions over flashy shortcuts.
13 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
DUT Réseaux et Télécommunications, DUT Réseaux et Télécommunications at Université de Rouen Normandie
Architecture des Logiciels, Computer Engineering, Architecture des Logiciels, Computer Engineering at ESGI
Javascript scraping module based on puppeteer for many different search engines...
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Contributions:22 commits, 8 PRs, 11 comments in 6 months
Contributions summary:Hugo significantly contributed to the project by adding and refactoring tests, particularly focusing on the Google search module and other search engine modules. They implemented HTML output functionality, ensuring that scraping results include the HTML content. Furthermore, the user refactored proxy configurations and implemented user-agent settings. They also addressed quality control by adding "use strict" to ensure high-quality code.
Contributions:42 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 7 months
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Hugo Poissonnet - Staff Software Engineer at Doctolib