Sébastien Cottinet is a versatile Staff Engineer with over 20 years of professional experience and 11 years of documented software work, blending hands-on backend architecture with team leadership and product-facing responsibilities. He has led high-performance, real-time systems (notably core contributions to the open-source Kuzzle backend) and driven migrations and cross-platform mobile efforts, combining Node.js, TypeScript, Flutter and native mobile expertise. Comfortable from conception through maintenance, he excels at data modelling, performance optimization and solving complex, high-volume data problems while shaping technical roadmaps. As a manager he fosters collective intelligence—recruiting, mentoring and bringing disparate ideas together into pragmatic solutions. Based in Brittany and working remotely, he regularly balances deep technical work with client-facing architecture advice and occasional on-site collaboration around Marseille.
Open-source Back-end, self-hostable & ready to use - Real-time, storage, advanced search - Web, Apps, Mobile, IoT -
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:100 releases, 362 reviews, 1912 commits in 6 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Sébastien's contributions focused on backend development within the Kuzzle project. The code changes involve fixing a variety of bugs and issues related to the real-time system and various controllers. The user implemented the changes and added unit tests, showcasing a focus on quality and stability.
Contributions:18 pushes, 9 branches in 6 years 4 months
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