My career path

QRyx

4 mos · Indre-et-Loire, France

French dynamic QR code SaaS: print the QR code once, change its destination forever from a dashboard (from €3/month). Designed, built and run solo.

• Product & market: requirements scoping, public offer and pricing, launch
• Design: high-performance redirect (FrankenPHP worker mode + Redis), Symfony UX dashboard
• Infrastructure: hosted in France, go-live and operations
• Billing & compliance: Mollie payments, GDPR by design

Habitat France

1 yr 11 mos

Tech Lead of a 3-to-4-person team on the Habitat e-commerce platform: 5 websites (France, Germany, Spain, Belgium, Luxembourg) and about 400 users online at any time. Modernized the stack and infrastructure while keeping delivery going, without interrupting sales.

• Infrastructure: costed and sized the server architecture to the load, migrated to a newer infrastructure and managed the hosting provider, cutting the hosting bill by 40%
• Delivery: CI/CD and semantic release, going from one release every 1 to 2 weeks to several per week
• Modernization: successive Symfony upgrades from 2.8 to 4.4 on a live platform
• Architecture: designed and set up internal microservices
• Shared foundation: development best practices and a Docker environment shared by every team
• Product: new features and senior technical support for the teams
• Continuity: I had known the platform since 2014, after several years building the brand's websites at Vente-Unique

Freelance

2 yrs 7 mos · Saint-Avertin, Centre-Val de Loire

Designed and built cross-platform web applications, maintained and implemented APIs. End-to-end projects: requirements scoping, technical design, development and client relationship.

• Technical support and coaching for the Habitat France teams
• Designed and built the APE Léon Plantin website (assoleonplantin.fr)
• Requirements scoping, design and development of web projects for various clients

Meero

1 yr 5 mos · Paris area

Led an API team of 2 to 3 at Meero, an on-demand professional photography platform. Took over the existing API and designed the new one, used by the mobile apps, the logged-in website and the back office.

• Architecture: designed and built a new cross-platform API with API Platform, alongside the existing one
• Quality: paid down technical debt and raised code coverage from 20% to 70% with unit and functional tests
• Standards: development guidelines and API usage rules for every consuming team
• Observability: added monitoring and performance metrics
• Team: lead developer, code reviews and coaching

Vente-Unique.com

5 yrs 10 mos · Paris area

Almost 6 years within the Cafom group, from internal management tools to the brands' e-commerce websites, building strong expertise from logistics to multilingual e-commerce.

• Designed and rolled out a shared ERP for the Cafom group's entities
• Developed, improved and maintained the Habitat brand websites
• Connected point-of-sale systems to report in-store sales in real time
• Designed, built and ran the DirectLowCost website and ERP

Proximit

Aixe-sur-Vienne

Web and mobile services company. Assignments with various clients, across a wide range of technologies and needs.

• Trained teams and rolled out Symfony 2-based solutions
• Designed the Tèrra Aventura cross-platform mobile app (Android/iOS)

Ryxeuf Multimédia

Limoges area

Set up and ran my own business: web development for gomesbrothers.com (PHP, jQuery, Symfony). Owned the whole project cycle, from scoping to go-live.

We-Care.com

New York area

Developed a Firefox extension and maintained the server infrastructure and the website. One year on an English-speaking team in the New York area.

Master's-level engineering degree in Computer Science, web specialization

Polytech Tours

2007 — 2010

Two-year technical degree in Computer Science (DUT)

IUT du Limousin

2005 — 2007