Pierre Cavin
CEO & Founder at Unill
Poitiers, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France
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Top SchoolPierre Cavin is a pragmatic technology founder and full‑stack engineer with 11 years of professional experience and 14 years in tech, currently building Unill to standardize skills data for hiring, upskilling, and workforce analytics. He pairs hands-on development (NodeJS, TypeScript, ETL, Jupyter) with product leadership, having led teams at Airbus and scaled architectures for high‑traffic platforms like BricoPrivé. As a contributor to the well-known node-cron project, he improved test coverage and fixed time-handling bugs to align behavior with Unix standards, reflecting an attention to reliability and standards compliance. His background spans safety‑critical refactoring, automated trading pipelines, embedded event systems on Raspberry Pi, and teaching, showing a rare mix of production-grade engineering, data work, and pedagogy. Based in Poitiers, France, he favors pragmatic, measurable improvements—cutting code complexity and doubling performance in past roles—while building a startup that tackles a widely overlooked data problem.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Full Stack Web Development Certification Computer Software Engineering, Full Stack Web Development Certification Computer Software Engineering at freeCodeCampComputers and information technology, Computers and information technology at Self-educatedRNCP Level III Software Developer, RNCP Level III Software Developer at AFPA Balma (31)
French, English
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Github Skills (18)
javascript10
sinon10
testing10
jestjs10
nodejs10
typescript9
typescript-types9
typescripts9
eclipse6
winston6
express-jwt6
android6
semantic-release6
gradle6
cordova6
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
kelektiv/node-cron
Apr 2023 - Mar 2025
Cron for NodeJS.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & QA Engineer
Back-end Developer & QA EngineerContributions:129 reviews, 144 PRs, 123 pushes in 1 year 11 months
Contributions summary:Pierre primarily contributed to improving the testing suite for the `node-cron` project. Their commits focused on adding new test cases to cover specific fixes and ensure correct functionality, along with refactoring existing tests to improve clarity and maintainability. They also worked on fixing a bug related to setting the time of a job. This included aligning the library with the Unix standard and enhancing its overall reliability.
recurringnodejscronmautic
sheerlox/sheerlox
Feb 2023 - Feb 2025
utterly over-engineered personal README.md
Contributions:1 review, 7 PRs, 74 pushes in 2 years
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