Sébastien Burel
CEO & Founder at haruni.net
Rennes, Brittany, France
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
Top SchoolSébastien Burel is a seasoned engineer and serial founder with over two decades of hands-on experience building mobile, embedded and cloud-native products from Brittany, France. As CEO of haruni.net he now focuses on generative AI platforms that combine local and cloud models (Llama.cpp, AWS Bedrock, Stability AI, Whisper) while retaining a practitioner’s fluency across iOS/Android, Objective‑C/JavaScript and AWS hosting. He previously founded Frigo Magic, a consumer app with 3 million downloads and a 600‑ingredient database that generated 21 million recipe variations and helped prevent roughly 10 million meals of waste annually. His background spans embedded/IoT work (notably contributions to the Moddable SDK and Piu UI improvements) through large‑scale mobile and backend systems for news sharing, travel planning and education marketplaces. Comfortable switching between low-level device integration and high-level ML orchestration, he blends product-minded entrepreneurship with deep engineering craft. Colleague and partner networks include successful exits and collaborations with Sony, Kinoma and major French digital platforms, underscoring his ability to ship impactful, scalable products.
8 years of coding experience
34 years of employment as a software developer
BTS Informatique Industrielle, Informatique, BTS Informatique Industrielle, Informatique at ESIG Rennes - Informatique IndustrielleMaster of computer sciences, Artificial intelligence, Master of computer sciences, Artificial intelligence at EPITA: Ecole d'Ingénieurs en Informatique
French, English
Github Skills (12)
c1710
uid10
iot10
embedded10
javascript10
c1110
ui-design10
sys10
front-end-development10
android9
build-system9
ios9
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (3)
Moddable-OpenSource/moddable
Oct 2017 - Nov 2019
Tools for developers to create truly open IoT products using standard JavaScript on low cost microcontrollers.
Role in this project:
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions:11 commits, 4 comments, 1 issue in 2 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Sébastien's contributions focus on enhancing the Moddable SDK for IoT product development. They worked on the Piu UI framework, adding a render function and implementing hit detection and text layout improvements. Additionally, they modified the build process with `mcconfig` to support iOS and Android builds by leveraging manifest data. The user also addressed platform-specific issues, incorporating fixes for Android and PC builds.
javascriptjavascript-standardfor-developerslow-costmicrocontrollers
Frigo-Magic/moddable
Oct 2020 - Jan 2024
Tools for developers to create truly open IoT products using standard JavaScript on low cost microcontrollers.
Contributions:23 pushes, 12 tags in 3 years 4 months
javascriptjavascript-standardfor-developerslow-costmicrocontrollers
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.