Stéphane Bisinger
Scientific Software Engineer at KOF Swiss Economic Institute of ETH Zurich
Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Summary
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SeniorStéphane Bisinger is a Scientific Software Engineer based in Zurich with 19 years of hands-on experience building reliable full-stack systems and tooling. He blends backend-focused craftsmanship in Python and Ruby with pragmatic frontend work, championing practices like continuous delivery, trunk-based development, high test coverage and observability. At organizations from startups to research institutes he has driven migrations to serverless infrastructure, tightened security, and shortened release cycles through automation and incremental delivery. An active open-source contributor, he has improved core libraries such as xhtml2pdf by fixing CSS parsing issues and keeping legacy code maintainable. Born in Switzerland and raised in Italy, he mixes Swiss attention to quality with Italian pragmatism and a continuing interest in functional programming. He excels in self-organizing teams that take product ownership and consistently turns complex requirements into practical, production-ready solutions.
19 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Italian, French, English, German
Stackoverflow
4,507reputation
471kreached
23answers
14questions
unit-testing
top-5%
python
top-5%
Github Skills (22)
python10
reportlab10
html-to-pdf10
convert9
converter9
unit-testing9
file-converter9
css9
pdf9
pdf-generation9
image-converter9
pdf-conversion9
pdfa9
documentation8
distutils6
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
xhtml2pdf/xhtml2pdf
May 2013 - Jun 2013
A library for converting HTML into PDFs using ReportLab
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits in 22 days
Contributions summary:Stéphane contributed to the xhtml2pdf library by adding documentation for the `<pdf:pagecount />` tag and modifying the `AUTHORS.rst` file. They fixed deprecated raise styles and changed the call to `raise` to align with the deprecated style, indicating a focus on code maintenance. Furthermore, the user fixed an error related to CSS parsing of the Descendant Selector, suggesting involvement in improving the core functionality of the CSS processing component.
pdfwkhtmltopdfreportlabpdf-generationconverting
Kjir/cv
Jul 2016 - Jun 2022
Contributions:27 pushes, 2 branches in 6 years
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