Nicolas Bedos
Software Engineer
France
Summary
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RockstarNicolas Bedos is a software engineer based in France with eight years of experience building reliable developer tools and backend systems. He is an active open-source contributor known for improving developer workflows—most notably refactoring the terminal-recording project termtosvg to use pyte for more accurate escape-sequence decoding and smoother SVG animations. His work shows attention to low-level terminal behavior and cross-browser compatibility, addressing rendering gaps that affect Chromium. Comfortable across backend stacks, he focuses on pragmatic, maintainable solutions that improve tooling efficiency for other engineers. Colleagues appreciate that he pairs technical rigor with a knack for spotting subtle UX issues in developer-facing software.
8 years of coding experience
Github Skills (6)
terminal-emulator10
svg10
terminal-application10
emulation10
python10
software-design8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
nbedos/termtosvg
May 2018 - Jun 2020
Record terminal sessions as SVG animations
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:13 releases, 174 commits, 33 PRs in 2 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Nicolas primarily focused on refactoring the terminal session recording process to use the `pyte` library for escape sequence decoding, improving the efficiency and accuracy of the terminal recording functionality. They implemented a mechanism to group terminal output by time, which facilitates smoother animation playback. The user also addressed problems related to missing character cells in the animation rendering, improving SVG compatibility with Chromium.
svg-animationterminalsvgclishell
nbedos/cistern
Aug 2019 - Jun 2020
A terminal UI for Unix to monitor Continuous Integration pipelines from the command line. Current integrations include GitLab, Azure DevOps, Travis CI, AppVeyor and CircleCI.
Contributions:8 releases, 273 commits, 3 PRs in 10 months
appveyorazure-devopscirclecicommand-linecontinuous-integration
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