Sébastien Chopin

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DISC Type : cs

Director of Engineering at Vercel

Bordeaux, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France

Overview

Sébastien is the Director of Engineering at Vercel and the creator of Nuxt, the popular open-source web framework. He is passionate about improving the developer experience and making the web faster, focusing on the Nuxt and Nitro ecosystems. People describe him as a creative, intelligent, and first-rate entrepreneur.

Outside of work, Sébastien is a father who enjoys spending time with his wife and two children. He has a passion for basketball, which he has played since he was young, and also enjoys dancing, particularly the Shuffle style. He often works on creative personal coding projects.

He started coding at 12 years old and created the first version of Nuxt, a framework now used by companies like Louis Vuitton and Microsoft, in about a week and a half.

Personality Overview

Status Quo Seeker

Unexpressive

Late Adopter

They are always well-planned and adopt a systematic approach.  They are heavily focused on quality and prefer doing things the right way, even if it takes time. They do not like taking risks at all and go for proven options in the end.

Topics They Care About

Developer Experience
His stated mission is to empower developers with the best tools, creating a 'flow feeling' so they can express their full creativity.
Open Source
As the author of the popular open-source framework Nuxt, he is deeply involved in building and contributing to the open-source community.
Web Performance
He is driven to make the web faster and hates page reloads, a motivation that led him to build Nuxt with server-side rendering as a core feature.

Media Appearances

Sébastien has no verified media appearances

Work History

7-2025
Director of Engineering at Vercel
3-2017 - 7-2025
Chief Executive Officer at NuxtLabs

Education

2010 - 2011
Education details unavailable from EPITECH - European Institute of Technology

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Exp : 8 Location : Bordeaux, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France Job Level : Mid-senior Designation : Director of Engineering at Vercel
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During A Call Or A Meeting

DO's

  • Expect them to be slow and cautious, encourage them to ask more questions
  • Ask them which other stakeholders would be important for this purchase decision
  • Be firm in your communication and stay in control

DONT's

  • Avoid getting into storytelling mode, especially when they ask specific questions
  • Don't rely on relationship building even if they act pleasantly
  • Don't push them too hard to make fast decisions, give them time

When Cold Calling

When Writing An Email

While Negotiating & Closing

    The secret to closing fast with Sébastien is

  • Proof of usage by others in the industry, case studies showing ROI are likely to work the best with them.
  • Will you ever get a clear answer from Sébastien

  • They don’t say no often, they push out the decisions or keep going around in circles.

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    How fast (or slow) will Sébastien move?

  • They are some of the slowest movers and take their time reaching decisions.
  • Can Sébastien take some risk or not?

  • They have very low acceptance of risk even if they do not say it directly.

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