Summary
Sébastien Kirche is an experienced automation tools developer with 17 years in software and 7 years focused on infrastructure automation for the European Commission, blending Bash, Perl, Java and bespoke orchestration tooling on Linux. He began in mechanical and automation engineering and brings three decades-plus of hands-on experience from 8-bit hobbyist roots to industrial control systems and desktop application development. Passionate about language theory, compilers and low-level programming, he is equally at home writing assembly, C, Lisp/Forth/Smalltalk experiments and level-7 Perl. A pragmatic engineer who favors Emacs and FOSS over heavyweight ecosystems, he has deep operational knowledge of networking, TLS/PKI, USB and OpenSSL-based prototypes. He contributes to open source and technical communities (notably a long-standing presence on StackOverflow) and combines maker skills—3D printing, microcontrollers and plans for CNC—with production-focused tooling for monitoring and reporting. Practical, curious and self-directed, he excels at bridging industrial automation thinking with modern infrastructure automation on Linux.
17 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
DUT Informatique, DUT Informatique at IUT de Metz
BTS Mécanique et Automatismes Industriels, BTS Mécanique et Automatismes Industriels at Lycée Louis Vincent
French, English