Étienne Miret

A picture of me

Employment History

Infologic

Since

Having met a woman from Lyon (France) (who eventually became my wife), I started to look for a job there and had the pleasure to join . This software editor produces and deploys itself the Copilote ERP, specially tailored for the food industry. However, we do have a few customers in other verticals, e.g. in the cosmetic industry.

OVHcloud

After doing Java for over ten years, I wanted a change (while remaining a software developper). gave me this oportunity. I worked in their network observability team, where I did Kotlin, Python and a little Go.

Sadly I had to leave this cool team quickly because of some personal issues.

One2Team

For over five years I worked at One2Team. It’s an editor that sells a (very good) projects management software.

What I liked the most there is that we worked on complex problems, with strong performance and stability requirements. This made us think a lot in order to find simple and elegant solutions. And I love thinking.

The Argus de la Presse

After a little more than 6 months working there as a consultant, happy with my work, the Argus de la Presse decided to hire me. As I really enjoyed the job, I quickly accepted.

Unfortunately, a little time after I was hired, the management announced financial losses, decided to reduce expenses and fired most consultants. This completely changed the ambiance, and furthermore I had the filling a resignation would please them. Hence, I didn’t stay long.

HN Services

The first company I worked for was , an IT service provider who sent me to several of its clients, notably banks, up to the Argus which hired me.

Education

Université Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris 6)

This is where I got my Master in computer networks. I studied here the TCP/IP protocols in depth. I also had here lessons about Unix and POSIX, and computer security. But my favorite one was the lesson about queuing theory.

École Normale Supérieure de Lyon

In 2005 I was accepted at the prestigious . And honestly, I think this school was made for me. There, I really felt home. The curriculum had exactly the right balance between maths and computer science for me.

Unfortunately, major health issues required me to go back to Paris, hence I couldn’t have my Master there. I still got my Bachelor’s degree with honors at this school.

Collège Stanislas

After my high-school diploma, I went in a maths-physics preparatory class for two years at . This was hard, even very hard, but today I remember with some wistfulness this time when I really had to think.

At the time, I only had two hours of computer science lessons a week. But that was enought to ignite my interest.

Open Source Contributions

Sass Compile

Sass Compile is a Gradle plugin I made because I needed it in a personal project. I published it on the Gradle Plugin Portal, and I now have enough users that I get an issue opened on GitHub from time to time.

Hibernate ORM

While I was working at the BPI, I found a few bugs in Hibernate. I spent some time to analyse and fix them, then I submitted some fixes. However, the main team required several years to decide whether to accept them, which discouraged me to devote more to this project.

W3C Validator

While I was studying at the ÉNS, I submitted two patches to the W3C validator development team. That was my very first public contributions. The first patch was about content negotiation and I don’t remember the second. However, I remember they were both accepted, which made me quite proud at the time.

Contact

Email address
etienne.miret@ens-lyon.org
OpenPGP key
0AB6D35E571C831520144EB150A8CB747ABB61FC