Simon Genin
Software Engineer at Transurb
Godinne, Walloon Region, Belgium
Summary
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Top SchoolSimon Genin is a curious and creative software engineer with 11 years of experience building full-stack solutions and contributing to the Odoo open-source ecosystem. He has held R&D and product-owner roles at Odoo, taught programming at Université de Namur, and led freelance and nonprofit initiatives that bridge academia and industry. His contributions to Odoo include front-end widget fixes and backend mail enhancements, plus technical writing that expanded JavaScript service documentation for one of the platform’s main repositories. Now based in Godinne, Belgium, he combines hands-on engineering with mentoring and a strong interest in helping others learn—reflecting a rare blend of practical product work, teaching experience, and open-source documentation craftsmanship.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Master Sciences Informatiques Finalité Data Science, Master Sciences Informatiques Finalité Data Science at Université de Namur
French, English
Github Skills (15)
javascript10
web-development10
front-end-development10
odo10
odoo10
back-end-development10
documentation10
python9
webpages9
sphinx9
css8
xml8
html8
google-apps8
erp7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
odoo/odoo
May 2020 - Dec 2022
Odoo. Open Source Apps To Grow Your Business.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:223 reviews, 120 commits, 176 PRs in 2 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Simon primarily contributed to bug fixes and feature enhancements within the Odoo framework. Their work involved front-end modifications to web components, specifically addressing issues in the URL and many2many tags widgets. They also implemented changes in the back-end with enhancements in the mail module. The contributions also touched upon test_lint and documentation.
pythonodooappserpdjango
odoo/documentation
Oct 2021 - Nov 2021
Odoo documentation sources
Role in this project:Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:13 reviews, 16 commits, 4 PRs in 24 days
Contributions summary:Simon's contributions primarily involve adding and modifying documentation for the Odoo documentation repository. They added sections for various JavaScript services, including `user`, `title`, `notification`, and `http`, expanding the documentation's coverage of Odoo's frontend features. The user also updated the documentation with examples, API definitions, and service overviews. Furthermore, the user made CSS customization for Javascript doc blocks and updated the configuration file.
pythonodooerpsolidworkssources
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