Pascal Belouin
Software Architect at Max Planck Institute for the History of Science
Berlin, Germany
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Top SchoolPascal Belouin is a software architect and digital humanities scholar based in Berlin with nine years of experience designing API-driven infrastructures and researcher-facing tools. At the Max Planck Institute he conceived and led RISE, an API/textual exchange platform built on a REST protocol he designed (SHINE) to streamline large-scale access to scholarly resources. Trained as a software engineer, UX designer and social scientist, he blends technical architecture, human-centred design and qualitative methods (ethnography, discourse analysis, personas) to build usable research systems. His background spans CTO and lead developer roles in startups and agencies, delivering full-stack Rails and MEAN applications, mobile apps and Docker-based DevOps. He is currently exploring decentralized storage (IPFS) for long-term research data preservation, reflecting a systems-level interest in infrastructure resilience. Pragmatic and interdisciplinary, he excels at translating scholarly needs into scalable, researcher-friendly platforms.
9 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
MA, Social Sciences, MA, Social Sciences at The Open UniversityBaccalauréat, Scientifique, Assez Bien, Baccalauréat, Scientifique, Assez Bien at Lycée Notre DameMSc, Graduate Enterprise in Multimedia, MSc, Graduate Enterprise in Multimedia at Teesside UniversityHigher National Diploma (Diplôme universitaire de technologie), Software Engineering, Higher National Diploma (Diplôme universitaire de technologie), Software Engineering at La Rochelle UniversitéMRes, Design and Evaluation of Advanced Interactive Systems, MRes, Design and Evaluation of Advanced Interactive Systems at Lancaster University
English, German, French
Github Skills (37)
rest-api8
rise8
restful-api8
spreadsheet7
swagger7
rswag7
sqlite7
airtable6
postgresql6
openapi5
swagger-ui5
reference-implementation5
rails4
low-code4
django4
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
ChainlinkHackathon-StakingMonitor/contract
May 2022 - May 2022
Contributions:1 review, 75 commits, 1 PR in 25 days
RISE-MPIWG/rise_js_client
Dec 2017 - Jul 2020
A framework-agnostic javascript client to interact with the SHINE API
Contributions:58 commits, 6 PRs, 6 pushes in 2 years 7 months
javascript
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