Sebastien Villar
Software Engineer at Figma
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolSebastien Villar is a seasoned software engineer with 11 years of experience building consumer and productivity apps, currently at Figma after leading engineering at Height. He shipped major features on Outlook Mobile iOS (including integrating Sunrise calendar expertise and an algorithm to improve non-responsive email readability) and helped design Sunrise’s web-to-desktop architecture early in his career. At Height he scaled a remote engineering team, drove the Height 2.0 roadmap to add AI-driven workflows (auto-triage, regression detection, auto team assignment) and continued shipping complex full‑stack features himself. He combines hands‑on execution—from low-level data stores and performant spreadsheet UIs to mobile UX polish—with product-minded systems thinking. Based in New York, he pairs startup agility with enterprise experience, often owning cross-team integrations and permission/performance work that enables real product adoption. One less obvious strength is his pattern of moving between IC and leadership roles while still shipping core technical features.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree Computer Science, Master’s Degree Computer Science at Université catholique de LouvainMaster’s Degree Computer Science, Master’s Degree Computer Science at Aalto University
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Github Skills (50)
jquery9
object-cache9
jquery-ui9
queue8
rich-text8
redis7
text-editor7
nodejs7
javascript7
sdk7
rich-text-editor7
python7
swift6
slug6
react6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
heightapp/test
Jan 2019 - Jan 2020
Contributions:122 PRs, 116 pushes, 156 branches in 1 year
sebastienvillar/home-client
Apr 2018 - Oct 2022
Client for Home raspberry pie
Contributions:1 PR, 24 pushes, 2 branches in 4 years 6 months
raspberry-piraspberrypie
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