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Benjamin EllisBE

Benjamin Ellis

Lead backend developer

€650/day
Charleroi, BE
8-15 years

Average response time: 1 hour

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About Benjamin

I am your specialist for MarketPlaces and web applications. For years, I have specialized in the development of SaaS, API and MarketPlace as a full stack developer and business developer. If you are leading a project of this type, I would be happy to assist you in its software, marketing, SEO and business development.

Indeed, you will find in my previous projects many MarketPlaces and SaaS, such as SportFinder (MarketPlace and SaaS of sport), MachineryCash (MarketPlace of construction and used machines between professionals), Edebex (MarketPlace factoring of invoice - financing), BePark (Saas & MarketPlace parking), and many other websites, applications and e-commerce.

My main expertise is Symfony (version 2 to 5), my PHP framework of choice. I am extremely efficient with it but I am comfortable with many PHP frameworks (Sylius, Laravel). I also have skills in cloud infrastructure (AWS, Docker, Vagrant, SymfonyCloud and Platform.sh) and mobile development (android and iOS) in order to be versatile in a CTO position for a startup environment.
  • English

    Native or bilingual

  • French

    Native or bilingual

Can work on-site
Charleroi (up to 50km), Charleroi (up to 100km)

Experience

  • SportFinder
    CEO
    SPORTS
    April 2019 - December 2022 (3 years and 9 months)
    Bruxelles, Belgium
    SportFinder is the Booking.com of sport!

    For this project, I took on the role of CEO. My role was to develop our product (the directory and the management and reservation software), find our first customers and partners and generate a turnover to finance the development of the site. We launched our product on the market after 5 months of development and adopted an Agile method to evolve it according to the feedback from our users. Discover sports activities in our beautiful country!

    🧰 PHP 7.2 > 8.2, Symfony 4 & 5,
    🎨 SASS, VueJS, Boostrap, FontAwesome, Webpack
    💻 AWS, Platform.sh, SymfonyCloud, AMQP, Redis
    🕑 Project management with Jira
    📆 MVP released after 5 months of development
    👨‍👨‍👦‍👦 2 full-time founder + 3 freelancers (medior fullstack + expert VueJS + marketing)
    🌟 First client 1 month after MVP, 5 clients in 2019
    🧩 2 libraries published on GitHub
    symfony 5 Vue.js platform.sh Amazon Web Services wepback API Api platform
  • MachineryCash
    Interim CTO
    CIVIL ENGINEERING
    September 2018 - April 2019 (7 months)
    Waterloo, Belgium
    Redesign of the platform (Symfony 4, API), integration of a new design and optimization of the UX/UI using the VueJS framework. Implementation of an admin dashboard to facilitate the work of the sales and operational department.

    🧰 PHP 7, Symfony 3 & 4, API
    🎨 SASS, VueJS, Boostrap 4, Webpack
    💻 Self-managed cloud Instance
    🕑 Project management with GitLab, PullRequest
    📆 Redesign of the user space in 4 months
    👨‍👨‍👦‍👦 2 back-end devs + 1 front-end + 1 graphic designer
    🌟 100% responsive, interactive and live reloading interface
    🧩 backend administration + documentation synchronized with the code + translation module
    Symfony 4 Vue.js API nginx
  • Edebex
    Senior developer
    BANKING AND INSURANCE
    December 2015 - April 2018 (2 years and 4 months)
    Bruxelles, Belgium
    Responsible for the technological stack, lead symfony developer (2, 3 and 4).
    - implementation of the backend in Symfony 2
    - migration to Symfony 3
    - implementation of an investment fund
    - invoice audit system - fraud detection - implementation of Scorecards
    - Implementation of unit & functional tests

    🧰 PHP 5.6 => php 7, Symfony 2 & 3, API
    🎨 CSS, LESS, Vanilla JS & Jquery, Boostrap 2 & 3, Webpack
    💻 AWS, Loadbalacing, CloudFront, S3
    🕑 Project management with Jira
    📆 Redesign of the user space in 4 months
    👨‍👨‍👦‍👦 1 CTO + 1 architect + 1 lead symfony developer + 1 senior developer + 1 junior + n interns
    🌟 From startup to scale-up
    🧩 translation module + strategic partner integration via API + investment fund via API
    Symfony Symfony 2 Symfony 3 Amazon Web Services linux nginx paiment

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Education

  • Management informatics
    Paul Lambin
    2012

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