Timothée Steva is a product manager with six years of experience specializing in food product development, packaging and go-to-market strategy, currently leading the product offering at Les Cuistots Migrateurs—a social enterprise that combines catering with refugee integration. He blends culinary craftsmanship (years as a chef and pastry cook) with data-driven product decisions, overseeing R&D briefs, organoleptic quality testing, pricing strategy and customer experience. His background in FMCG and roles at Marie and other culinary groups honed skills in competitive intelligence, packaging projects and cross-functional coordination with design and production teams. Timothée also contributes to open source tooling around developer UX—improving syntax highlighting and documentation for popular Neovim/Vim projects—showing a rare mix of culinary product sense and technical attention to detail. Based in Paris, he brings practical kitchen experience to structured product management, often translating chef-driven creativity into scalable menu and packaging solutions. Colleagues note his curiosity for new recipes and knack for turning sensory feedback into measurable product improvements.
6 years of coding experience
High School Diploma, High School Diploma at Lycée Ozenne
Bachelor's degree, Food Technology and Processing, Bachelor's degree, Food Technology and Processing at Université de Rennes 1
Bachelor's degree, Bachelor's degree DRACI (Development and Research in Industrialized Culinary Art, Bachelor's degree, Bachelor's degree DRACI (Development and Research in Industrialized Culinary Art at Agrocampus Ouest
Master of Science - MS, Marketing, Master of Science - MS, Marketing at Rennes School of Business
Master marketing and sales, Marketing, Master marketing and sales, Marketing at ESG RENNES
Bachelor's degree, Cooking and Related Culinary Arts, General, Bachelor's degree, Cooking and Related Culinary Arts, General at FERRANDI PARIS: CAMPUS DE BORDEAUX
Contributions:11 reviews, 157 commits, 73 PRs in 2 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Timothée primarily focused on improving the documentation for the `nvim-lua-guide` repository. Their commits involved creating and refining a script (`to_vimdoc.sed`) to generate Vim documentation from a Markdown-based guide. They addressed issues such as incorrect formatting and broken links within the documentation, refining the scripts to generate accurate and usable help files. The user made several iterations and fixes to ensure the documentation was complete, well-formatted, and functional.
A use-package inspired plugin manager for Neovim. Uses native packages, supports Luarocks dependencies, written in Lua, allows for expressive config
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Contributions:7 reviews, 15 commits, 15 PRs in 10 months
Contributions summary:Timothée contributed to the development of the `packer.nvim` plugin manager. They fixed bugs related to Git repository handling, keybinding configuration, and compilation issues. The user also refactored code for local plugin symlinks and Git operations, improving the plugin's functionality and stability. They implemented new features like configuring display window keybindings, and documented those changes.
luadependenciesvimpackage-managerpacker
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Timothée Steva - Product Manager at Les Cuistots Migrateurs