Leo Vivier
Software Engineer Backend Platform SRE
Paris, Ile-de-France
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Top SchoolLeo Vivier is a backend and platform SRE with eight years of experience building containerized microservices, scalable CRM features, and reliable dispatch systems, currently working across freelance projects and at imagino in Paris. A long-time FLOSS contributor and co-maintainer of Org-Roam, he blends production-grade Go backend work with deep Emacs/Elisp expertise—improving tooling like ranger and lispy as well as core Org-mode workflows. He has a track record of shipping pragmatic infrastructure: RPC microservices, bulk-emailing and billing automation, and incident-driven roadmaps. Leo’s background in teaching and humanities informs clear documentation and thoughtful UX choices in developer-facing projects, evident in nuanced improvements such as preview logic and navigation refinements.
7 years of coding experience
Erasmus Exchange Littérature Anglaise & Linguistique Générale, Erasmus Exchange Littérature Anglaise & Linguistique Générale at The University of ManchesterCAPES Anglais, CAPES Anglais at Ministère de l'Éducation nationaleMaster of Arts in Teaching English, Master of Arts in Teaching English at CY Cergy Paris UniversitéMaster Recherche Spécialité « Aires Anglophones » Anglais, Master Recherche Spécialité « Aires Anglophones » Anglais at Université Rennes 2Philosophy Political Science & Literature, Philosophy Political Science & Literature at Reed CollegeBaccalauréat Scientific, Baccalauréat Scientific at Lycée Émile Littré
English, japonese, Korean, French, Italian
Github Skills (22)
file-management10
scripting10
org-mode10
navigationbar10
navigation-drawer10
emacs-lisp10
vim10
script10
common-lisp10
sh10
shell10
navigationview10
preview-pane9
console9
document-preview9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
org-roam/org-roam
Apr 2020 - May 2021
Rudimentary Roam replica with Org-mode
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:4 reviews, 72 commits, 120 PRs in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Leo contributed significantly to the Org-roam project, focusing on enhancing functionality and user experience. Their work included implementing new features such as `org-roam-find-directory`, adding a filter argument to `org-roam-insert` and `org-roam-find-file`, and implementing `org-roam-find-index`. They also addressed various bugs, including typo fixes, and improvements to the user interface with new faces. Furthermore, they worked on improving the code structure by refactoring code.
replicapkmroamorg-modeemacs
ranger/ranger
Aug 2018 - Aug 2019
A VIM-inspired filemanager for the console
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:53 commits, 13 PRs, 35 comments in 11 months
Contributions summary:Leo focused on enhancing the file manager's preview functionality within the ranger/ranger repository. They added and modified shell script (`scope.sh`) to generate font previews, including adjusting the font size and padding for a better user experience. Further commits refined the conditional logic used for the preview, demonstrating an understanding of the underlying system behavior.
vimconsolefilemanagerfile-launcherneovim
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