Jérôme Despatis
Founder at Source RH
Paris, Ile-de-France
Summary
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Top SchoolJérôme Despatis is a founder and web expert based in Paris with 14 years of experience building and advising on web applications, DevOps, and open-source tooling. He leads Source RH, a consulting and services firm focused on digital innovation, product analysis and open-source ecosystems, combining hands-on SysAdmin and Scrum methodology expertise. An active contributor to well-known projects like Symfony CMF documentation and Yeoman generator, he has improved developer workflows through clearer docs and pragmatic backend fixes for caching and file handling. His background from Centrale Lille and SKEMA blends engineering rigor with business acumen, and he often surfaces subtle issues—like fragile array handling or binary file edge cases—that improve long-term maintainability.
14 years of coding experience
MP*, MP* at Lycée Janson-de-Sailly2002, Master, 2002, Master at SKEMA Business School2001, Génie Informatique, 2001, Génie Informatique at Centrale Lille
Github Skills (24)
scaffold10
cms10
filesystem10
javascript10
file-operations10
yeoman10
php10
fileio10
nodejs10
deprecated10
documentation10
symfony9
symfony-ux9
automation9
automations9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
ezsystems/ezpublish-legacy
Sep 2011 - Jan 2012
eZ Publish (aka "legacy kernel" + 3 core "legacy extensions") NOTE: Succeeded by eZ Platform, no further feature releases planned.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:93 commits in 3 months
Contributions summary:Jérôme primarily focused on enhancing the eZ Publish legacy codebase. Their contributions included refactoring code by moving optimization logic for JavaScript and CSS into dedicated classes. Further work involved fixing bugs related to missing isset() checks and array merging issues. They also addressed documentation and variable usage inconsistencies.
cmskernelpublishpublishingphp
yeoman/generator
May 2013 - Jan 2014
Rails-inspired generator system that provides scaffolding for your apps
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Automation EngineerContributions:8 commits in 8 months
Contributions summary:Jérôme primarily focused on improving the `yeoman/generator` project's functionality through back-end code modifications. They implemented changes to actions.remote() to handle cache refresh behavior, corrected an issue related to binary file handling in the conflicter, and added a `cacheRoot()` function for better file management. The user also added features to remote() function and fixed some related issues, showcasing experience with file-system operations.
scaffoldsystem-generatorrailsscaffoldingjavascript
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