Nicolas Pennec is a Lead JavaScript Developer and tech lead based in Rennes with over 15 years of experience building fullstack web platforms and guiding teams from architecture to production. He combines deep JavaScript/TypeScript expertise across Vue/Nuxt, React/Next, Node.js and Electron with strong backend and DevOps skills (Docker, Ansible, serverless) to deliver performant, accessible and SEO-friendly applications. A pragmatic engineer and conference speaker, he has led teams at OVHcloud and scaled R&D efforts at ScaleDynamics while co-founding the local RennesJS community to foster knowledge sharing. He’s an active open-source contributor—having significantly improved the popular nuxt-community sitemap module with features like gzip, ETag and i18n support—bringing a habit of shipping practical, well-documented improvements. Known for blending hands-on coding, technical writing and training, he’s comfortable moving between specification, prototyping and production rollout.
12 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Licence, Informatique (MIAGE), Licence, Informatique (MIAGE) at Université de Rennes I
Baccalauréat, Génie industriel, Mention Bien, Baccalauréat, Génie industriel, Mention Bien at Lycée Saint Joseph - Landerneau
IUT Lorient - Organisation et Gestion de la Production (OGP), IUT Lorient - Organisation et Gestion de la Production (OGP) at Université Bretagne Sud
BTS, Informatique de Gestion, BTS, Informatique de Gestion at Saint-Louis, Châteaulin
Contributions:142 commits, 72 PRs, 151 pushes in 2 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Nicolas primarily worked on enhancing the Nuxt.js sitemap module. Their contributions include refactoring the code to align with module templates, wrapping async calls, and optimizing lodash imports. They also added gzip compression, ETag header, custom XML namespaces, and trailing slash features to the sitemap. The user also fixed various bugs related to route generation and caching and added i18n and router base support.
Contributions:179 commits, 4 PRs, 145 pushes in 4 years 6 months
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Nicolas Pennec - Lead JavaScript Developer at RennesJS