Sylvain Guillope
Principal Software Engineer at Atlassian
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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Top SchoolSylvain Guillope is a Principal Software Engineer based in Sydney with 14 years of experience building high-availability backend systems, full-stack platforms and mobile apps. He evolved from PHP work on high-traffic e-commerce sites to iOS development and later into team leadership and engineering management before returning to hands-on IC work focused on clean code and software craftsmanship. At Atlassian he designed and shipped Java/Kotlin services and ingestion pipelines using AWS (DynamoDB, Redis, S3, SQS), and mentors engineers while contributing to libraries used across the company. He’s an active open-source contributor who improved CocoaPods’ dependency handling and repo robustness, demonstrating pragmatic bug fixes and test-driven refactors. Comfortable across web, mobile and backend stacks, he prioritises delivering user value and continuous improvement. Outside work he recharges in the outdoors—skiing, climbing and hiking—which informs a pragmatic, resilient approach to engineering challenges.
14 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
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English, French
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Github Skills (18)
dependency-manager10
objective-c10
testing10
cocoapods10
error-handling9
refactoring8
ruby8
git8
command-line7
command-line-interface7
cli7
syntax6
oracle6
php6
flyway6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
CocoaPods/CocoaPods
Sep 2015 - Sep 2015
The Cocoa Dependency Manager.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Backend Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:10 commits, 2 PRs, 8 comments in 2 days
Contributions summary:Sylvain primarily contributed to the CocoaPods dependency manager by addressing issues related to platform validation and repo management. They fixed bugs concerning platform specification and dependency resolution, particularly when using the `--no-integrate` option. Additionally, the user implemented changes to improve error handling for repo operations, specifically when creating the repos directory. These contributions included refactoring code and adding tests to validate the new logic.
cocoapodsobjective-cpackage-managermacdependency-manager
sguillope/spring-cloud-contract
Sep 2019 - Feb 2021
Support for Consumer Driven Contracts in Spring
Contributions:3 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year 4 months
spring-bootspringjavacontractsconsumer-driven-contracts
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