Nicolas Hennion
Ground System Expert And Technical Manager Of The Satellite Control Center Integration Team
Valbonne, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France
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Nicolas Hennion is a ground systems expert and technical manager with 17 years building satellite control center software and architectures at Thales Alenia Space. He leads integration of mission-critical monitoring and network solutions, pairing systems expertise with product management responsibility for long-lived satellite operations. An outspoken open-source advocate, he is the creator and principal maintainer of Glances, a cross-platform system monitoring tool with an active community and production use across Linux, BSD, macOS and Windows. His background spans hands-on development, network architecture and technical leadership, and he also founded a well-read blog to share operational and open-source insights. Based in Valbonne, he combines aerospace-grade reliability practices with pragmatic open-source engineering to improve observability and control across complex systems. A less obvious strength is his sustained focus on documentation and API design for observability tooling, improving usability for operators and integrators.
17 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Ingénieur système et télécom Systèmes informatique et Télécom, Ingénieur système et télécom Systèmes informatique et Télécom at École des Mines de Saint-ÉtienneMaster Computer science, Master Computer science at Université Côte d'Azur
French, English
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Github Skills (19)
api-rest10
api-design10
restful-api10
api-documentation10
rest-api10
documentation10
python9
apidoc9
api9
elasticsearch6
influxdb6
firefox6
zlib6
profiling6
grafana6
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
nicolargo/glances
Dec 2011 - Jan 2023
Glances an Eye on your system. A top/htop alternative for GNU/Linux, BSD, macOS and Windows operating systems.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Documentation Specialist
Back-end Developer & Documentation SpecialistContributions:54 releases, 16 reviews, 3398 commits in 11 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Nicolas appears to have primarily contributed to the Glances project by updating documentation for the API, including descriptions of various endpoints, parameters, and examples. They also refactored the alert data model and introduced new entry points for clearing warning/all events. Their contributions demonstrate a focus on improving API documentation and enhancing the functionality related to monitoring and control within the system.
bsdgnuhtoplinuxmacos
nicolargo/sxxexx
Dec 2013 - Nov 2022
A command line tool to search (and download) series from the Piracy Bay.
Contributions:16 commits, 2 PRs, 2 pushes in 8 years 11 months
command-line-tool
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