Sébastien Delafond
Owner at FREEXIAN
France
Summary
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SeniorSébastien Delafond is an experienced software and network engineer with 19 years building secure, reliable infrastructure and release pipelines across startups and established companies. As owner of FREEXIAN and a long-time Debian developer, he blends hands-on *NIX system administration with deep expertise in network security and policy management. His background spans roles from Ops at Mappy to Security Officer at Untangle and Computer Scientist at Adobe, showing comfort moving between product, operations, and security domains. He contributes to open source projects like py3status, improving installation and documentation for Debian/Ubuntu users—an indication of his attention to operational detail and user experience. Colocated in France, he has repeatedly operated at the intersection of development and deployment, shipping practical tooling and security controls. Colleagues rely on him to translate complex security requirements into maintainable infrastructure and clear operational processes.
19 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
English, French
Github Skills (11)
i3-config10
read-me10
stat10
slstatus10
debian10
documentation10
i310
ubuntu10
sphinx9
rs9
python3
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
ultrabug/py3status
Jan 2018 - Jan 2018
py3status is an extensible i3status wrapper written in python
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:8 commits, 3 PRs, 7 comments in 1 day
Contributions summary:Sébastien primarily focused on enhancing the project's documentation, specifically related to the installation process for Debian and Ubuntu users. They added documentation to the `README.rst` and `doc/intro.rst` files, detailing the use of `apt-get install py3status` and clarifying availability status across different Debian/Ubuntu versions. The contributions also included minor updates such as mentioning Ubuntu alongside Debian in the documentation and correcting notes about installation options.
pythonttki3wmi3barextensible
sdelafond/yank
Oct 2015 - Dec 2019
Contributions:7 pushes, 4 branches, 4 tags in 4 years 2 months
terminalyankclipboardcli
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