Jerome Quelin is a data scientist with 18+ years at Volvo Group, evolving from Unix system engineer and customer service manager to analytics and data science roles where he blends deep systems knowledge with customer-focused product thinking. He has led international projects and managed teams and budgets while driving platform efficiency as a technical leader and process manager. A long-time open-source advocate, Jerome maintains ~40 CPAN modules and contributed key parsing enhancements to the widely used Dist::Zilla tooling, demonstrating strong Perl and back-end expertise. His background as a Linux/Solaris expert and distribution packager (Mageia/Mandriva) gives him rare operational depth for production data systems. Known for translating customer needs into technical scope, he pairs pragmatic architecture design with hands-on coding to deliver measurable improvements.
18 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
INSA Lyon - Institut National des Sciences Appliquées de Lyon
Contributions summary:Jerome primarily contributed to the `dist-zilla` repository by developing and enhancing a plugin for automatically extracting prerequisites from Perl modules. They implemented features to parse `use` and `require` statements, handle Moose roles and inheritance, and provide a skip list to filter unwanted prereqs. Furthermore, they added support for minimum Perl version declarations and integrated PPI for more robust parsing.
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