Stephan Simart
Responsable Équipe Core at Hove
Paris, Ile-de-France
Summary
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Top SchoolStephan Simart is a seasoned technology leader with 12+ years driving R&D-heavy mobility platforms, currently heading the Core team at Hove from Paris. Trained as an engineer at Arts et Métiers and formerly a developer in operational research, he uniquely bridges marketing needs, algorithmic constraints and scalable cloud architectures. He led the containerization and full AWS migration of Navitia’s 17 components, implemented automated scalability and platform cost optimizations, and industrialized a multi-criteria routing engine with real-time integration. A patient communicator and coach, he manages mixed teams of engineers and PhDs while evangelizing technical solutions to product stakeholders. Active in the Navitia open-source ecosystem as a documentation contributor, he couples deep domain expertise in mobility with hands-on system design and CI/process modernization. An unexpected detail: alongside his technical career he also pursued formal musical training, reflecting a pragmatic creativity in problem solving.
12 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Ingénieur généraliste, Informatique, Ingénieur généraliste, Informatique at Arts et Métiers ParisTech - École Nationale Supérieure d'Arts et MétiersFormation professionnelle, Guitare, Formation professionnelle, Guitare at CIM - Centre d’Informations Musicales
French, English
Github Skills (6)
documentation10
api-design9
restful-api9
rest-api9
api-rest9
sphinx8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
hove-io/navitia
Oct 2013 - Aug 2022
The open source software to build cool stuff with locomotion
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:21 reviews, 284 commits, 161 PRs in 9 years
Contributions summary:Stephan primarily contributed to the documentation of the `navitia` repository. Their commits focused on updating and expanding the documentation, including adding examples, correcting links, and clarifying explanations of various API endpoints and functionalities. They also modified the structure and content of the documentation by incorporating images and diagrams. Their work improved the clarity and completeness of the API documentation.
trip-plannerjourney-plannermobilitylocomotiontrip-planning
stifoon/navitia
Jan 2015 - Mar 2025
The REST API to build cool stuff with public transport
Contributions:116 pushes, 19 branches in 10 years 3 months
apipublic-transportapi-restnodejscool-stuff
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