Pierre Mesure
Datalab Manager
Stockholm, Stockholm County, Sweden
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Top SchoolPierre Mesure is a Datalab Manager leading Sweden's Ministry of Finance datalab to build AI-driven public services and unlock value from government-owned data. With a decade of experience across civic tech, open data and participatory democracy, he has co-directed Digidem Lab, co-founded Civic Tech Sweden and driven city-level and international citizen participation projects including Sweden's first citizens' assembly. A hands-on developer and open-source contributor, Pierre has contributed full-stack and back-end fixes to prominent participatory platforms like Consul and Decidim, including map clustering and security improvements. He has led transparency initiatives such as opening public procurement data and lobbying transparency tools, and created civic projects like Din Riksdag and jagvillhavaccin.nu. Comfortable bridging policy, product and code, he moved from grassroots innovation into government in 2023 to scale impact from inside the system. He brings a rare mix of technical depth, facilitation experience and practical democracy design informed by international collaborations.
10 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Norwegian University of Science and TechnologyEngineerâs Degree IT Management, Engineerâs Degree IT Management at IMT AtlantiqueMaster in Open eGovernment Public sector / Project management / IT, Master in Open eGovernment Public sector / Project management / IT at Stockholm University
English, Swedish, French, Spanish, Japanese
Github Skills (22)
e-government10
ruby-rails10
back-end-development10
rspec10
rails10
ruby10
front-end-development10
web-development10
backend10
ruby-on-rails10
par9
g8
git7
javascript7
leaflet6
Programming languages (20)
Github contributions (5)
decidim/decidim
Mar 2018 - Jun 2022
The participatory democracy framework. A generator and multiple gems made with Ruby on Rails
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 reviews, 14 commits, 20 PRs in 4 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Pierre contributed to the Decidim framework by addressing specific issues and implementing improvements. The contributions include fixing bugs related to importing proposals to budgets and removing unnecessary elements from the admin interface. They also focused on enhancing code quality by fixing typos and adding security-related configurations to links across various components, including core functionalities, and various spec files. The user actively modified code within the Ruby on Rails framework, making adjustments to functionality and testing files.
participatory-democracycivic-techgovernmentdemocracyparticipation
consuldemocracy/consuldemocracy
Jun 2018 - Mar 2020
Consul Democracy - Open Government and E-Participation Web Software
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:21 commits, 33 PRs, 116 comments in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:Pierre contributed to the project by adding and modifying code across multiple parts of the application. They worked on adding images and seeds for the homepage, splitting factories, and fixing a bug related to categories. Furthermore, they addressed localization and interface elements, modifying configurations for test environments and updating the management interface. The user also implemented clustering for the map feature.
web-softwarerailsrubygovernmente-participation
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