Sylvain Thénault
Co-Founder And CEO at Lowatt
Toulouse, Occitania, France
Summary
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Top SchoolSylvain Thénault is a seasoned software engineer and entrepreneur with 13 years of experience who currently leads Lowatt as Co-Founder and CEO from Toulouse, France. He combines deep engineering roots—from early Delphi work to a decade at Logilab where he progressed from developer to Toulouse agency director—with hands-on contributions to notable open-source tooling such as core AST and checker work on pylint. Passionate about practical, impact-driven projects, he has recently focused on ventures tied to energy transition and products that matter for his family’s future. Sylvain blends technical craftsmanship, team leadership, and product-minded entrepreneurship, making him equally comfortable shipping code and building companies.
13 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering, Master's degree, Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering at Université Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris VI)Engineer's degree, Computer Science, Engineer's degree, Computer Science at Institut de Sciences et Techniques des Yvelines (ISTY)
French, English
Github Skills (6)
linter10
static-code-analysis10
python10
abstract-syntax-tree10
software-quality9
pep9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
pylint-dev/pylint
May 2013 - Nov 2015
It's not just a linter that annoys you!
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:28 commits, 2 PRs, 2 pushes in 2 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Sylvain primarily contributed to the core functionality of the pylint tool, including tokenization, AST (Abstract Syntax Tree) analysis, and checker implementation. Their work involved integrating token streams for checking, refactoring existing code, and modifying the documentation to improve the user's understanding of pylint's features. Additionally, the user made modifications to existing files and added test cases, with a focus on addressing specific code quality issues.
linterlintpep8static-code-analysiscode-quality
lowatt/pdfss
Feb 2019 - Oct 2022
PDF Scraping System
Contributions:2 reviews, 3 PRs, 37 pushes in 3 years 8 months
pythonpdfscrapingscraperpdfbox
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