Xavier Seignard
Senior Software Development Engineer at Alan
Plouguerneau, Brittany, France
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Top SchoolXavier Seignard is a Senior Software Development Engineer with 15 years of full‑stack experience, currently focused on React and React Native at Alan while also running creative technologist projects through drangies. Comfortable across mobile, backend, frontend and embedded electronics, he blends TypeScript, Kotlin and C++ expertise with hands‑on hardware work (he even mentions a reflow oven). An active open‑source contributor, he improved Linux packaging and build quality for the widely used electron-builder project by adding desktop entries, tests and Debian metadata. Trained as an engineer with master’s degrees from Polytech Nantes and Université de Nantes, he pairs strong academic foundations in model‑driven engineering with practical delivery across consumer and developer tooling.
14 years of coding experience
Master's degree, Information Technology, Master's degree, Information Technology at Université de Nantes / University of NantesFrench Engineer Diploma (Master Degree), Model driven engineering, French Engineer Diploma (Master Degree), Model driven engineering at Polytech Nantes
French, English, Spanish
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Github Skills (27)
fpm10
electron10
builder-pattern10
bower10
packaging10
linux10
deb10
builders10
builder-io10
javascript9
twitter-bootstrap9
html5-audio9
heroku9
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Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
electron-userland/electron-builder
Jan 2016 - Feb 2016
A complete solution to package and build a ready for distribution Electron app with “auto update” support out of the box
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:8 commits, 2 PRs, 24 comments in 12 days
Contributions summary:Xavier primarily focused on adding and improving the Linux target support for the electron-builder project. This included generating desktop entries, scripts, and package configurations, along with adding supporting tests. The user also addressed linting errors and modified the build process to include version and maintainer information, which improved the quality of the generated Debian packages. The contributions demonstrated a strong understanding of packaging and build processes for Linux distributions.
msirpmsnapcraftauto-updateelectron-updater
xseignard/cordovarduino
Nov 2013 - Nov 2018
Cordova/Phonegap plugin for USB host serial communication from an Android device.
Contributions:56 commits, 8 PRs, 20 pushes in 5 years
serial-portsphonegap-pluginhostserialcordova
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