Ronan Amicel
Technical Coach at Pocket Sensei
Amiens, Hauts-de-France
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Top SchoolRonan Amicel is a veteran software engineer and technical coach with 34 years of experience helping startups and public institutions build the right products and the right engineering practices. He combines hands-on Python expertise and systems thinking—demonstrated by long-term roles as senior developer, CTO, and technical coach across companies like Pocket Sensei, ScrapingBee and ANCT—with a PhD-level background from INRIA. A pragmatic mentor and trainer, he focuses on value-driven development, pragmatic tool choices, and team capability building across both startup and government contexts. He contributes to open-source documentation (notably improving clarity in the Pyramid Python web framework), signaling a care for developer experience beyond code. Based in Amiens, France, Ronan blends academic rigor with entrepreneurial grit and a persistent taste for learning from both successes and mistakes.
34 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Computer Science, PhD, Computer Science at Université de Rennes IEngineering degree (M.S.), Computer Science, Engineering degree (M.S.), Computer Science at Institut national des Sciences appliquées de Rennes
English, French
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Github Skills (17)
restructuredtext10
rs10
pyramid10
web-framework10
documentation10
python9
regex9
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mercurial6
fabric6
pylons6
tornado6
nosetests6
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Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
Pylons/pyramid
Dec 2011 - Apr 2019
Pyramid - A Python web framework
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:7 commits, 1 PR in 7 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Ronan's contributions primarily focused on documentation improvements within the Pyramid web framework. Their commits involved fixing typos and minor edits in existing documentation, updating links to external resources, and clarifying examples. The changes specifically targeted documentation files related to the `whatsnew` and `views` sections, aiming to improve clarity and accuracy for users. They also corrected examples to ensure better code clarity.
pythonpyramidpython-webframeworkpylons
artisans-du-logiciel/communaute
Dec 2018 - Mar 2019
La communauté des artisan·e·s du logiciel
Contributions:12 commits, 9 PRs, 11 pushes in 3 months
artisanlogicielphpdeslaravel
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