Xavier Lambein
Software Engineer at Gigs
Brussels, Belgium
Summary
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Top SchoolXavier Lambein is a versatile software engineer and former data scientist with 11 years of programming experience and a Master’s in Computer Science from UCLouvain, currently building software at Gigs in Brussels. He favors Python for data and backend work, writes Rust professionally from his time at Tweag, and is comfortable with JavaScript for front-end tasks. His background spans deep learning with TensorFlow, optimization algorithms from competitive programming, and production data pipelines demonstrated at CLIMACT and the MIT Media Lab. An active open-source contributor, he improved type inference and testing for the Nickel configuration language, blending careful engineering with strong type-system intuition. Outside work he channels creativity into music production, game development, and fiction, which informs his focus on readable, fast, and elegant code.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree Computer Science and Engineering, Master’s Degree Computer Science and Engineering at Université catholique de Louvain
French, English, memes
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (20)
type-check10
testing10
configuration-management10
type-system10
configuration-file10
configurations10
type-checking10
nickel10
rust10
configuration-language10
lifetime6
aws-cli6
llvm-ir6
borrow-checker6
amazon-web-services6
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
tweag/nickel
Mar 2022 - Jun 2022
Better configuration for less
Role in this project:
Backend Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Backend Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:10 reviews, 8 commits, 2 PRs in 2 months
Contributions summary:Xavier primarily focused on enhancing the Nickel configuration language, specifically related to the type system. Their contributions involved adding tests to verify the behavior of wildcards within type annotations and ensuring correct type inference. The user made changes to the typechecking module, resolving issues with wildcard substitution, and improved the pretty printer and expander.
configurationinfrastructureconfignickeldotfiles
xlambein/xlambein.github.io
Sep 2021 - Feb 2025
Contributions:133 pushes, 2 branches in 3 years 5 months
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