Pierre Tacchi

Head Of Research And Development at Velvet Flare

Longuyon, Grand Est, France
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Pierre Tacchi is a pragmatic engineering leader with 11 years of cross-domain experience who currently heads Research and Development at Velvet Flare from Longuyon, France. He combines hands-on macOS and game-development chops with previous enterprise SAP consulting, enabling him to translate product strategy into maintainable code and systems. A full-stack developer by practice, Pierre maintains open-source projects such as Fluor, a macOS utility that intelligently switches Fn key behavior per application, demonstrating fluency in Swift and Objective-C and attention to user-facing details. He progressed internally from game developer to R&D lead at Velvet Flare, showing a knack for shipping features and stepping into technical leadership. Comfortable bridging legacy enterprise environments and consumer-focused native apps, he favors pragmatic solutions that improve developer velocity and user experience. Colleagues describe him simply as “I write code,” but his track record shows a blend of product-minded engineering and operational rigor.
code11 years of coding experience
job1 year of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (14)

objective-c10
uid10
swift10
macos10
front-end-development10
ui-design10
interface-design8
xcode6
accessibility-api6
interface-builder6
ios6
animation6
nsbutton6
cocoa6

Programming languages (6)

C++CObjective-CSwiftRubyKotlin

Github contributions (5)

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Pyroh/Fluor

Sep 2016 - Jul 2022

A handy tool for macOS allowing you to switch Fn keys' mode based on active application.
Role in this project:
userFull-stack Developer
Contributions:6 releases, 92 commits, 8 PRs in 5 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Pierre primarily focused on developing and maintaining the macOS application's functionality. Their contributions include implementing core features like the ability to switch Fn key modes based on the active application and adapting the UI. The changes involve modifications to the application delegate, status menu, and other UI-related components. The code demonstrates proficiency in Swift and Objective-C and its integration in macOS development.
macosswitchkeyshandy
Pyroh/SwiftMark

Dec 2015 - Nov 2016

A Swift wrapper for CommonMark C implementation cmark
Contributions:22 commits, 3 PRs, 7 pushes in 11 months
cmarkswiftswift-wrappercommonmark
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Pierre Tacchi - Head Of Research And Development at Velvet Flare