Alexandre Khalifa

Crédit Agricole Group is one of the leading banking groups in Europe. It comprises 154,000 employees and 27,000 regional bank administrators. Crédit Agricole Group is a responsible and useful bank, serving 54 million customers, 11.8 million members, and 800,000 individual shareholders.

In April 2024, I joined the CATS Kosmos squad, which is tasked with proposing a solution for porting applications to a new environment. In this context, I am directly involved in modernizing, porting, and rewriting applications into more recent frameworks (.NET 8...). The squad consists of:

- 1 Product Owner

- 1 Scrum Master

- 1 PPO

- 3 Data Developers

- 3 .NET / C# Developers

- 2 PHP Developers

- 1 Business Analyst

- 2 DevOps Engineers

- 1 Run Manager

- 1 Coordinator of the various stakeholders

As a C# / .NET developer, my responsibilities included:

- Porting and rewriting applications to the latest frameworks: .NET 8

- Defining and implementing unit tests

- Implementing tools for users of the Kosmos solution

- Participating in the run, maintaining these tools

- Writing documentation in accordance with company procedures

Technical context: .NET 8, C#, ASP.NET Core, Visual Studio, SQL Server, MVC architecture, EntityFramework Core, Razor, Javascript, SOAP, Rest, xUnit, Docker, Kubernetes, Argo CD, Artifactory, Helm, SonarQube, Scrum, JIRA, Git, Gitlab

A French leader in the transport and shipper TMS sector, TDI assists its clients in managing parcel shipping and, in particular, in issuing transport labels. The company has 25 years of existence, over 100 million labels issued per year, and more than 250 carriers listed in its catalog.

I joined TDI's TMA team in 2021 for a period of 3 years. I participated in the maintenance and evolution of our main applications. These applications are used for issuing transport labels but also offer a multitude of additional features: parcel tracking, invoice generation, etc. We were organized as a team of 6-7 people. The team consisted of C# / .NET developers and a team lead.

As a C# / .NET developer, my responsibilities included:

- Development, maintenance, and evolution of our applications: primarily .NET, C#, SOAP, and REST Web Services

- Development, maintenance, and evolution of our databases: SQL Server 2019

- In collaboration with project managers, collection and analysis of client needs to identify possible improvements

- In collaboration with the System and Network team, maintenance and evolution of a secure environment for both us and our clients

- In collaboration with the Hotline team, problem-solving by providing adapted solutions for Level 3 issues

- Definition and implementation of necessary tests

- Writing documentation in accordance with company procedures

- Tutoring and training an apprentice from September 2022 to February 2024

Technical context: .NET, C#, ASP.NET, Visual Studio, SQL Server, Entity Framework, micro-services, Elastic stack, RabbitMQ, SOAP, REST, xUnit, AzureDevOps, Scrum, Git

Le Khundar is the company founded by YouTuber Poisson Fécond, creator of cultural and offbeat content. The YouTube channel now has over 3 million subscribers. The company employs about 20 people for its business.

I joined Le Khundar in 2017 when the company only had 3 employees. I worked on the company's mobile game projects. Thus, during my 3 years at Le Khundar, I was able to:

- Make architectural choices and contribute to the development of the two main games: Necropalace and Starlight Runner

- When the development team grew, implement a Scrum approach for team management and take on the role of Scrum Master.

The team consisted of:

- 1 Game Designer

- 1 Scrum Master / C# Developer (myself)

- 1 Product Owner / C# Developer

- 3 C# Developers

- 1 Composer / Sound Designer

- 1 Illustrator

As a C# / Unity developer, my responsibilities included:

- Defining and prioritizing tasks and objectives

- Developing our games using Unity3D and C#. Varied tasks: game logic, artificial intelligence, interface, networking, cryptography

- Setting up our databases: MySQL

- Defining and implementing necessary tests

- Writing documentation and establishing standardization of company procedures

- Publishing the games on the App Store and Google Play Store

- Implementing Scrum methodologies as the team grew; training new members on Scrum; Scrum Master

Here are the App Store links for the games I worked on:

- https://apps.apple.com/fr/app/necropalace/id1303714260

- https://apps.apple.com/fr/app/starlight-runner/id1501325038

Technical context: Unity3D, C#, Visual Studio, MySQL, Scrum, JIRA, Git