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I build solid foundations so your business products scale without you breaking a sweat.
Who I am:
Lead PHP/Symfony backend developer with 15 years of experience. Specialist in complex backend architecture, critical APIs, and technical guidance on performance, reliability, and time-to-market challenges.
Who I work for:
Technical and IT departments of organizations with clear objectives:
- Launch a new product/service (from scratch)
- Redesign a legacy architecture (without breaking everything)
- Scale a critical platform (performance, reliability)
My recent clients:
Carrefour (retail insurance, 14 months, product building), Intersport (rental e-commerce, 16 months, technical lead), Crédit Agricole (financial products, 9 months, architecture from zero)
My approach:
Pragmatic, results-oriented, always focused on business needs rather than technical complexity.
Availability:
Daily Rate: €550-€650 | Package possible | Remote: OK
📩 Let's discuss your challenge
French
Native or bilingual
English
Conversational
Arabic
Native or bilingual
Can work on-site
Paris (up to 30km)
Experience
- Carrefour AssuranceLead Backend DeveloperRETAIL (LARGE RETAILERS)February 2025 - December 2025 (10 months)Paris, France🎯 Objective: Launch a retail insurance product from scratch (school, travel, retail, banking)📊 Result:- Product launched in 12 months- Progressive scaling: 0 → 20+ policies sold- 3-4 distributed partners- Architecture supporting millions of potential clients🏗️ My contribution:- Architecture from scratch: scalable data model capable of supporting multiple product lines- Business back-office: complete configuration (policies, products, options, pricing)- Critical APIs: pricing, quotes, subscriptions, document generation (99.9% reliability, <200ms)- Documentation and knowledge transfer to team🛠️ Stack: PHP 7/8, Symfony 6, Api-Platform 2/3, GraphQL, PostgreSQL, Docker, Platform.sh💡 Approach: Product-focused (business need priority), pragmatic (no over-engineering)
- SQLILead Backend DeveloperDIGITAL AND ITNovember 2015 - January 2025 (9 years and 2 months)92300 Levallois-Perret, France🎯 Technical referent on 15+ e-commerce, corporate, and business projects for Fortune 500 clients and scale-ups👥 Major clients:- Carrefour (retail insurance, product building 3 years)- Intersport (rental e-commerce, redesign 16 months, technical lead)- Crédit Agricole Consumer Finance (architecture from zero, 9 months)- Crédit Agricole (group) - 3 major projects- ANTS - National Agency for Secure Documents (legacy migration → modern stack)- AlloDocteurs Africa, Cora Automobile, Mondial Pare-Brise, Autossimo, Fédération Caisses d'Epargne📊 Key results:- Complex scaling: 17M users (ANTS), 2M transactions (Intersport), multi-partner (Carrefour)- Successful migrations: eZPublish → eZPlatform → Ibexa- Mentoring: 15+ developers (junior to senior)- Architecture: 10+ critical products🏗️ Expertise developed:- Technical lead & product building (architecture, APIs, data models)- Audit & legacy redesign (stability, performance, maintainability)- Backend scalability (Solr, Varnish, caching, DB optimizations)- DevOps & infrastructure (Docker, Platform.sh, CI/CD, monitoring)🛠️ Stack: PHP 5/7/8, Symfony 2.8-6, Sylius, Api-Platform, eZPlatform, Ibexa, Solr, Varnish, Docker, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Oracle💡 Approach: Product-focused, pragmatic, always oriented towards business results
- Pixmania GroupWeb DeveloperE-COMMERCEDecember 2008 - April 2015 (6 years and 4 months)Asnières-sur-Seine, France🎯 Objective:Web developer on a high-traffic e-commerce platform.Responsible for the maintenance and development of the Carrefour back-office and white label.🏗️ My contribution:- Maintenance and evolution of the legacy Back Office used by all Pixmania stores and pickup points, with improved stability and resolution of production issues.- Design and development of the new store Back Office, intended to modernize internal tools, improve ergonomics, and optimize logistics and retail operations.- Development and maintenance of the Carrefour e-commerce site (white label): handling key purchase journey features, performance optimization, and continuous integration of new business requirements.- Contribution to the progressive migration to a more robust ecosystem, reduction of technical debt, and improvement of internal processes between business and technical teams.- Active participation in testing, validation, and deployment phases, ensuring consistent quality and high availability.🛠️ Stack: PHP 4/5, CodeIgniter 1/2, MySQL, Oracle, HTML/CSS/JS💡 Approach: Product-focused, pragmatic, always oriented towards business results
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Education
- DUT, Programmation / développeur informatique, généralIUT de Villetaneuse (Paris XIII)2007DUT, Programmation / développeur informatique, général
- Baccalauréat, ScientifiqueLycée Georges Pompidou2004Baccalauréat, Scientifique
Certifications
- Opquast: Integrate web quality rules and vocabulary into your professional practiceOpquast
- Google AI EssentialsCoursera2025