Abel Derderian

I joined Beamy in February 2020, at Station F (Paris) as a software engineer. I work on the development of our platforms (in Vue.js, like the cool kids nowadays and NestJS). My daily life focuses on:

- Releasing new frontend / backend features

- Performance challenges and optimizations

- Monitoring deployments via continuous integration and adequate test sets

- Having a critical eye on UX / UI as well as user feedback

- Continuously learning to improve my / our technical added value on a daily basis

- Having a good time with amazing people! I also do technology watch (digital and physical) by attending professional conferences and preparing a blog about it. You have a good chance to meet me at conventions (Vue.js Amsterdam, Frontend Love, JSWorld, etc)! ✨

6-month internship at Gandi, the French leader in domain name registration, mentored by Gandi's Frontend Lead Developer. I first started my internship by building a simple static webpage: Postmaster, which aims at guiding users of Gandi's email offering through solving common email delivery rejections. The page is available in $n languages and leverages React HTML rendering and Gandi's internal UI components library. I was then assigned a more ambitious project, "Gandi in Numbers", which is a project to publish information in the form of numbers and statistics about Gandi. I had strong ownership over the creation and development of this project and was able to be proactive in terms of strategic and technical choices. It consists of a React (isomorphic) web application that leverages both client-side and server-side rendering, following a progressive enhancement strategy, and is built on top of a custom technical stack that I built from scratch with the ambition of turning this stack into a light, reusable web applications framework. Technical highlights include:

- React & React Redux

- Custom build system using Webpack, to produce optimized client & server JavaScript bundles with Babel, CSS stylesheets with Sass, (s)CSS Modules and PostCSS / Autoprefixer.

- Code quality tooling using ESLint, Flow, Prettier.

- Server-side rendering, for performance and accessibility improvement.

- Node.js web infrastructure with Express.js.

- Creation of specific React Components, leveraging Hooks / Context APIs and Redux

- Use of React Hooks and Context.

- Unified HTTP requests API both on the server and in the browser using isomorphic-fetch. Data came from a REST API that I wrote in Node.js, which was introduced to proxy internal data from a distant Prometheus and serve it as an Express middleware. Unit tests were made with Jest, and they were typed with Flow, as was the API.

5-month internship at Maecia, a creator of intranets for large groups, as a frontend developer / integrator. Worked on web integration (HTML5 / CSS3 / JS) and especially on the Vue.js framework.

I was working on creating the best intranet experience for our clients, directly working with them on a daily basis.