Sonny Piers
Director Of Software Engineering at FairScope
Brittany, France
Summary
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RockstarSonny Piers is a director-level software engineering leader based in Brittany, France, with 16 years of experience building and scaling products from hands-on backend code to executive technology strategy. He has transitioned through technical and leadership roles—CTO at getmomo and Simplo, engineering lead positions, and hands-on engineering stints—now steering engineering at FairScope. Deeply practical, Sonny still contributes to open-source projects like xmpp.js, focusing on low-level XMPP stanza handling and robust testing, which reflects a continued affinity for protocol-level detail. He blends startup grit with consultancy experience across Europe, delivering secure, testable systems and improving developer tooling and infrastructure along the way. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic technical leader who can shift fluently between coding, architecture, and company-wide technology direction.
16 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
English, French, Spanish
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Github Skills (12)
testing10
xmpp10
javascript10
nodejs9
html6
memory-leaks6
dom-events6
browser-history6
google-chrome6
gnome-shell-extensions6
gnome6
gjs6
Programming languages (22)
Github contributions (5)
xmppjs/xmpp.js
Jun 2011 - Jan 2023
XMPP for JavaScript
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:21 releases, 1 review, 636 commits in 11 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Sonny's commits primarily focused on the development and testing of core functionalities related to XMPP stanzas, with a focus on adding and verifying common attributes as properties. They also contributed to the project's infrastructure by fixing the Grunt JSHint task to parse root `.js` files and cloning the stanza instances. The user made contributions involving the codebase's low-level XMPP stanza handling and testing aspects. The work involved modifying existing JavaScript code related to XMPP data.
xmppbrowserreact-nativechatjavascript
sonnyp/troll
Sep 2019 - Jan 2023
Libraries for GNOME JavaScript (GJS)
Contributions:10 reviews, 69 commits, 10 PRs in 3 years 4 months
gnome-shell-extensiongnome-javascriptgjsjavascriptgnome
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