Mathieu Uy
Python Developer at beta.gouv.fr
Paris, Ile-de-France
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Top SchoolMathieu Uy is a pragmatic software engineer with 15 years’ experience specializing in back-end Python, Django and DevOps, now based in Paris. He’s forged developer experience and CI reliability at scale—improving test suites, Kubernetes-backed distributed pipelines and developer tooling at companies like Doctolib and GitGuardian. An active open-source contributor, he has improved major projects such as Radicale (CalDAV/CardDAV server) and pipenv, and even contributes documentation fixes to CPython itself. Mathieu combines low-level C++ experience from early roles with modern cloud-native practices, making him comfortable across performance-critical and high-velocity codebases. Colleagues rely on him to tame flaky tests, speed up CI, and keep complex tooling online and maintainable. He describes himself wryly as a “half-stack” developer who prefers getting the backend and deployments right—often the invisible work that keeps products running.
15 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
EpitechBaccalauréat scientifique, Baccalauréat scientifique at Lycée François Couperin
English, German
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (16)
pip10
carddav10
rs10
restructuredtext10
python10
caldav10
documentation10
virtualenv9
sphinxsearch9
icalendar9
sphinx9
packaging9
configuration-management8
couchdb6
sql6
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
python/cpython
Feb 2017 - Jul 2023
The Python programming language
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:2 reviews, 15 PRs, 15 comments in 6 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Mathieu's contributions primarily involve documentation updates within the Python project. These updates include correcting grammar and formatting errors, removing outdated information, and clarifying existing documentation. The edits span various parts of the documentation, including FAQs, library references, and how-to guides, with a focus on improving clarity and accuracy. The changes contribute to the overall quality and maintainability of the Python documentation.
programming-languagepython
Kozea/Radicale
Aug 2014 - Feb 2015
A simple CalDAV (calendar) and CardDAV (contact) server.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:9 commits, 9 PRs, 26 comments in 6 months
Contributions summary:Mathieu primarily focused on enhancing the Radicale CalDAV/CardDAV server's functionality. Their contributions included adding support for the ".well-known" addresses feature, which involved modifying configuration files and implementing redirection logic. Furthermore, they improved the internal workings of the server by optimizing the unfolding function and refactoring the item storage mechanism with indexing. They also addressed minor issues such as a GET response change and improved content handling.
caldavcarddavpythonicalendar
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