Sébastien Chopin
Director Of Engineering at Vercel
Bordeaux, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France
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Sébastien Chopin is a seasoned engineering leader and creator of Nuxt with 14 years of experience building developer-first web frameworks and tooling. As Director of Engineering at Vercel (after founding and scaling NuxtLabs), he blends strategic leadership with hands-on contributions across front-end UI, full-stack framework work, and backend server tooling like Nitro. He’s known for improving developer experience—shipping features in Nuxt Devtools, Nuxt UI, image and icon modules—and for tackling core framework concerns such as dynamic routing and build processes. Based in Bordeaux, he pairs entrepreneurial product instincts with deep open-source craftsmanship, evidenced by Nuxt’s widespread adoption and weekly downloads in the hundreds of thousands. A pragmatic polyglot between UX and infrastructure, he often moves seamlessly from component polish to server deploy optimizations.
14 years of coding experience
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English, French
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Github Skills (90)
url-routing10
ui-components10
authentication10
metadata10
integrations10
apollo-client10
pwapp10
nuxt-module10
backend10
auth10
javascript10
seo10
image-optimization10
app-framework10
color-scheme10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
nuxt-community/starter-template
Nov 2016 - Sep 2018
DEPRECATED: use create-nuxt-app instead
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:45 commits, 17 PRs, 38 pushes in 1 year 10 months
Contributions summary:Sébastien primarily contributed to the front-end aspects of the Nuxt.js starter template. Their work involved updating and modifying various Vue components, including layout and index pages. They introduced UI improvements by adding a logo and adjusting styling, alongside refactoring code to adhere to the Vue style guide. The user also integrated linting tools and made minor adjustments.
templatenuxt-appnuxtvuenuxt-template
nuxt/icon
Aug 2022 - Jan 2023
The <Icon> component, supporting Iconify, Emojis and custom components.
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:35 releases, 13 reviews, 55 commits in 5 months
Contributions summary:Sébastien primarily focused on developing and maintaining the `<Icon>` component for the Nuxt.js framework. Their contributions included the initial implementation of the component, incorporating support for Iconify, emojis, and custom components. They also added default icon size configuration and updated the component to use the new app config. Furthermore, the user refactored the module to use the runtime directory for the component, improved type definitions, and integrated schema for Nuxt Studio compatibility.
iconemojisiconifycustom-componentssupporting
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