Samuel Paccoud
Chef De Pôle Suite Numérique at Direction interministérielle du numérique (DINUM)
Paris, Ile-de-France
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Top SchoolSamuel Paccoud is a seasoned software leader with 11 years of experience building agile teams and delivering public-interest digital services, currently heading the Suite Numérique pole at DINUM in Paris. Previously CTO at France Université Numérique and a decade as a freelance CTO/engineer, he blends hands-on backend development with product and organizational leadership. He has deep practical experience with Django/React stacks and contributed to the open-source suitenumerique/docs project—implementing Markdown-to-PDF features, YAML frontmatter parsing, and backend refactors that shaped the platform’s architecture. Comfortable operating at the intersection of policy-driven digital transformation and engineering, he focuses on scalable, collaborative documentation and knowledge tools as an alternative to proprietary platforms. Trained at CentraleSupélec and with international studies including Georgia Tech and Inalco, he pairs rigorous technical foundations with cross-cultural fluency. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic architect who turns complex public-sector needs into usable, auditable services.
11 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
MSc, MSc at CentraleSupélecDULCO, DULCO at Institut national des langues et civilisations orientales (Inalco)MSc, MSc at Georgia Institute of TechnologyBachelor, Bachelor at Lycée du Parc
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Github Skills (10)
api10
python10
apidoc10
django10
yaml9
parsing9
pdf-generation9
markdown-it9
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Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
suitenumerique/docs
Jan 2024 - Mar 2025
A collaborative note taking, wiki and documentation platform that scales. Built with Django and React. Opensource alternative to Notion or Outline.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:181 reviews, 69 PRs, 186 pushes in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Samuel primarily focused on implementing features related to PDF generation from Markdown content by integrating the `frontmatter` library to parse YAML metadata. They also contributed to the back-end code, as demonstrated by the refactoring of tests related to template and team access, implying work on API endpoints. Additionally, the user was involved in refactoring the project to a first working version, indicating contributions to the project's architecture and overall functionality.
blocknotejscollaborativedjangog2ggovernment
openfun/handbook
Mar 2018 - Sep 2022
:book: Good practices we tend to respect in FUN projects
Contributions:21 reviews, 7 commits, 10 PRs in 4 years 7 months
good-practiceshandbookpython
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