Sebastien Blin
Consultant at Orthogone Technologies Inc.
Greater Montreal Metropolitan Area Canada
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Top SchoolSébastien Blin is a Free/Open-Source software consultant with 12 years of experience building embedded and distributed systems from Greater Montreal. He has deep C++ and Linux expertise—helping architect Ring.cx’s stack, contributing to OpenDHT and implementing proxy/listening endpoints and UnifiedPush support—and has reworked client libraries and desktop GNOME clients in C++/Qt and GTK. As an embedded specialist he created custom Yocto-based Linux distributions and implemented real-time C/C++ systems on Raspberry Pi and STM32. Comfortable across the stack, he also contributes front-end improvements and UX fixes to community projects like Zeste de Savoir. A regular speaker at FOSS events, he pairs systems-level rigor with practical devops and migration experience (Tuleap → GitLab). He brings a curious, robotics- and cold-climate-loving mindset that informs pragmatic, resilient designs for decentralized communication.
12 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Computer Science, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science at Université du Québec à ChicoutimiEngineer's degree, Computer Science, Engineer's degree, Computer Science at ESIR - Ecole Supérieure d'ingénieurs de Rennes 1
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Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
savoirfairelinux/opendht
Oct 2017 - Nov 2022
OpenDHT: a C++17 Distributed Hash Table implementation
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:26 reviews, 196 commits, 126 PRs in 5 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Sebastien implemented and refactored features related to the DHT proxy server, including adding support for several endpoints. These changes involved adding and modifying functionality for putting values into the DHT, retrieving values, and implementing a listening endpoint. The user also added support for UnifiedPush and implemented enhancements to the existing proxy server codebase. Furthermore, the user made minor fixes such as fixing typos and added support to handle values with an ID.
cppdistributed-hash-tablehashc-plus-plushash-table
zestedesavoir/zds-site
Sep 2016 - Oct 2018
Cœur du projet technique de Zeste de Savoir
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:34 commits, 37 PRs, 1 push in 2 years
Contributions summary:Sebastien contributed to various aspects of the Zeste de Savoir project, including front-end and back-end development. They modified form types and styles, enhancing the user interface, and added features like pagination to galleries. The user also worked on back-end improvements, such as fixing email sending for private messages and enhancing the similar subjects' search feature.
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