Sébastien Corbin
Senior Full-stack Developer at RGIVE
Nantes, Pays de la Loire, France
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Top SchoolSébastien Corbin is a Senior Full-stack Developer based in Nantes with 14 years of experience building web applications and custom modules, primarily using Django and Drupal. He spent over a decade at Makina Corpus delivering full-stack solutions and training for enterprise clients such as LaPoste, BNP, and Française des Jeux, and now contributes at RGIVE. A pragmatic backend specialist, he has made notable open-source contributions to widely used projects like Wagtail and django-silk, focusing on bug fixes, performance and usability improvements. He combines hands-on feature development with attention to edge-case regressions and profiling, evidencing a bias for stability and developer experience. Trained in computing science (EPSI Nantes and Griffith College Dublin), he brings both consultancy and product-minded perspectives to engineering problems. Although currently unavailable for recruitment, his profile reflects deep practical knowledge of CMS platforms, SQL performance tuning, and long-running client engagements.
13 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree Computing Science, Master’s Degree Computing Science at Griffith College DublinComputing science engineering degree Development, Computing science engineering degree Development at EPSI Nantes
English, French
Stackoverflow
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drupal
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Github Skills (16)
testing10
cms10
wagtail10
sql10
python10
django10
drupal9
database-design8
githubaction-workflow7
github-ci7
django-models6
php6
django-orm6
postgresql6
php-codesniffer6
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
jazzband/django-silk
Oct 2022 - Nov 2022
Silky smooth profiling for Django
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:12 reviews, 18 commits, 14 PRs in 1 month
Contributions summary:Sébastien primarily contributed to the Django backend of the project, addressing bug fixes, and enhancing features related to SQL query performance and display. They improved the request handling functionality by retaining filters and preventing encoding errors, as well as adding database constraint checks. Additionally, the user worked on improving the user interface for SQL queries, by displaying actions and highlighting non-third-party code in tracebacks.
pythonprofilingdjangosilkysmooth
wagtail/wagtail
Dec 2018 - Mar 2025
A Django content management system focused on flexibility and user experience
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 reviews, 19 PRs, 1 branch in 6 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Sébastien primarily contributed to bug fixes and enhancements within the Wagtail CMS. Their work includes resolving issues related to lock descriptions, verbose names in settings, and handling choice groups in active filters. Additionally, they addressed a regression related to the PublishMenuItem label and made a change to allow for overriding Page.permissions_for_user() by specific page types. The contributions demonstrate a focus on improving the core functionality and usability of the Wagtail platform.
cmsmanagement-systempythondjangouser-experience
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