Antoine Coulon

Sunday is a startup that offers immersive digital experiences for restaurant clients worldwide. From consulting digital menus to payment, including order taking, Sunday's applications aim to revolutionize experiences for restaurant clients and restaurateurs.

Context:

Member of a new team whose goal is to build and improve all the experiences offered by Sunday within restaurants by adding features to all the applications that accompany the customer ordering journey and the restaurateur's customization.

Projects:

- Incremental migration of a web application to a modular and testable architecture using Redux, following state-of-the-art frontend application standards.

- Development of a customization experience for displaying digital menus, configurable from the back office to allow each restaurant to fully personalize the experience offered to customers.

- Improvement of the digital menu to allow for an infinite number of nested selections of menu items and the application of validation rules defined by the restaurateur.

- Implementation of Backend-For-Frontend (BFF) servers for web applications to improve data consumption and speed.

- Support for developing the Lean Management culture and vision, including the implementation of team standards, continuous improvement (Kaizen), and problem-solving.

Role of Practice Lead / Lead Software Engineer in charge of software engineering teams, comprising over 10 Software Engineers. My objective is to establish standards, solve problems, reduce productivity losses, and intensely disseminate knowledge. My role is therefore not limited to being proactive in delivering quality software to end-users. It also involves enabling my colleagues to develop their software engineering expertise through pair and mob programming, as well as through workshops and training.

This has notably involved continuous improvement of employee skills and processes, based on Lean and Agile principles.

Achievements:

- Development of a new analytics platform from scratch in the retail sector to help clients make the best strategic decisions for their businesses, by leveraging large amounts of data over several years.

- Improvement of the CI/CD pipeline to reduce and improve Lead Time.

- Tech training and knowledge sharing sessions.

My role involves leading the development of full-stack services by applying Software Craftsmanship disciplines, such as Pair Programming, TDD, BDD, and Continuous Delivery. I adopt a Lean approach focused on continuous improvement, making problem-solving a standardized daily task.

Achievements:

- Several frontend data visualization applications with Nx, Next.js, React, TypeScript.

- Several backend applications with Rush.js, Node.js, TypeScript, Effect, Fastify, SQL Server, Azure SDKs.

- Deployed and fully integrated on Azure.

In addition to actively contributing to the development of full-stack applications, I am also responsible for:

- Managing the production environment on Azure, including monitoring, scaling, and system resilience and reliability.

- Managing most of the tools, including developer workspaces and development workflows (CI/CD pipelines) to accelerate feedback loops and improve user and developer experience.

- Leading workshops and internal presentations to contribute to the upskilling of technical staff.