Julien Debon
Software Engineer at Routine
Annecy, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France
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Top SchoolJulien Debon is a Principal-level software engineer and coach based in Annecy, France, with 12 years of experience building production-grade systems across infrastructure, backend, frontend and data pipelines. He blends a strong functional-programming sensibility (notably Haskell) with pragmatic engineering—designing resilient architectures for clients in genomics, retail and startups while coaching teams to improve delivery and code quality. At Tweag he acted as project leader and acting CTO, owning technical roadmaps, CI/CD, and developer workflows; more recently he contributed to the Nix/Rust ecosystem by improving builds and CI for the popular nickel configuration project. Comfortable across JVM, Haskell, and modern DevOps tooling, he repeatedly moves between hands-on implementation and technical leadership. He actively gives back via open-source contributions, meetups and writing, and has a track record of lifting teams through mentorship and clear engineering practices. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic engineer who prefers strong abstractions and reproducible builds over ad hoc complexity.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Engineer’s Degree Information Technology, Engineer’s Degree Information Technology at Centrale Nantes
French, English
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Github Skills (25)
nix10
cicd10
rust10
configuration-language10
clippy9
flake9
windows9
rustfmt9
vscode-extension8
configurations7
dockers7
infrastructure7
configuration-management7
configuration-file7
docker7
Programming languages (21)
Github contributions (5)
tweag/nickel
Aug 2021 - Dec 2022
Better configuration for less
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & Rust Developer
DevOps Engineer & Rust DeveloperContributions:63 reviews, 20 commits, 23 PRs in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Julien primarily contributed to the repository's infrastructure and build process, focusing on improving the Nix build system. They refactored the flake inputs, migrated the build process from `import-cargo` to `crane`, and added CI checks for the VS Code extension, which included fixing its Nix build and integrating it into the CI pipeline. In addition, the user made code changes to improve the overall build process and resolved associated issues.
configurationinfrastructureconfignickeldotfiles
sir4ur0n/nixpkgs
Dec 2021 - Mar 2024
Nix Packages collection
Contributions:17 pushes, 8 branches in 2 years 3 months
nixnixosnix-packagesnixos-configuration
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