Quentin Dawans
Staff Engineer at Platform.sh
Brussels, Brussels-Capital, Belgium
Summary
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Top SchoolQuentin Dawans is a Staff Engineer based in Brussels with a decade of experience building backend systems and improving developer workflows at cloud and platform companies like Platform.sh and Quix. He brings deep Python expertise and a track record of shipping pragmatic, test-backed improvements—from refactoring document consumers to adding CLI configuration and date-detection fixes in the popular open-source Paperless project. Quentin moves between hands-on coding and strategic platform work, focusing on reliability, observability, and documentation to make systems easier to operate and adopt. Trained originally in geosciences, he pairs analytical curiosity with an engineer’s attention to detail, often surfacing subtle UX and logging improvements that save time for teams in production.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Sciences géologiques et de la Terre / géosciences, Sciences géologiques et de la Terre / géosciences at Université de Namur
French, English
Github Skills (18)
python10
document-management10
django10
testing10
documentation10
cli9
command-line-interface8
configuration-management8
archiving8
ocr7
ocra7
paper6
searching6
dockers4
docker4
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
the-paperless-project/paperless
Feb 2018 - Apr 2018
Scan, index, and archive all of your paper documents
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:15 commits, 5 PRs, 53 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Quentin primarily focused on enhancing the backend functionality and improving the documentation of the Paperless project. Their contributions included fixing typos, refactoring code related to the document consumer, and adding a configuration argument to the document consumer CLI. The user also made improvements to the installation documentation and tests, further refining the project's usability. Furthermore, there is evidence of work related to date detection and logging enhancements.
scanpaper-documentsarchiveindexocr
ovv/ansible-role-wallabag
Jan 2018 - Sep 2019
Ansible role to install and configure wallabag
Contributions:16 commits, 11 PRs, 35 pushes in 1 year 8 months
network-automationansiblewallabagconfigureansible-role
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