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Description

Engineer by training, I manage agile development teams. Former front-end and back-end developer, I am always keeping up-to-date and listening to new technological advancements.

Passionate about agile methods, my successful experience at Sky in the UK made me love XP (extreme programming) and Lean Startup practices that we used on many projects that we put into production.

I enjoy sharing my passions and discoveries with my team and I seek to optimize the team's way of working so that we are always more productive, responsive, but also fulfilled.

Languages

French
Native or bilingual
English
Native or bilingual

Workplace preferences

Can work on-site

Vélizy-Villacoublay (up to 50km)

Eurosport / Warner Bros. Discovery
Software Engineering Manager
PRESS AND MEDIA
July 2018 - Today (7 years and 11 months)
Paris, France
As part of this mission, I actively participate in the modernization of the digital platform by working with the development teams of Eurosport in Paris and London. I am also involved in the rationalization of the group's OTT solutions by collaborating with other teams within the Warner Bros. Discovery group.

I regularly contribute to the code and infrastructure of many projects in order to stay as close as possible to the developers and their concerns.

Depending on the needs, I work as a lead developer, architect, analyst, or facilitator within the development teams (approximately 50 web, iOS, android, and backend developers).

I am proactive in improving common engineering practices for the development teams, particularly the generalization of Extreme Programming (see https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extreme_programming), but also:
- TDD and Continuous Delivery
- automation of acceptance tests
- daily pair-programming
- convergence of technologies for all teams, without restricting innovation capacity
- strengthening the autonomy of each team

I initiated several initiatives that were very positively received by management:
- training provided to developers on topics such as shell scripting, git, AWS, and terraform
- generalization of pair and mob-programming in the Paris teams (web and backend)
- organization of workshops to create a React component library and a GraphQL service
- organization of demos for projects resulting from the workshops
- facilitation of architecture sessions to feed the technical backlog of the web and back teams

The workshops organized in Paris or London helped to break down linguistic and cultural barriers. They had a very positive impact on the productivity and quality of exchanges between the teams.

I also actively participate in the recruitment of candidates for the development teams in Paris and London.
Amazon Web Services React.js GraphQL NodeJS Agile TDD Terraform Web architecture
Quotatis
On Malt
Lead Dev React
E-COMMERCE
May 2017 - June 2018 (1 year and 1 month)
92210 Saint-Cloud, France
As a Front-end Lead and within a team of about ten developers, I collaborated on the development of a multi-country intermediation platform (France, UK, Spain) allowing individuals to describe their renovation projects in order to be put in touch with professionals.

During this mission, I:
- introduced cucumber + selenium-webdriver functional tests
- fully automated the continuous deployment pipeline
- developed the Server Side Rendering part of the application using Razzle
- implemented a Serverless architecture with Google Cloud, Firebase hosting & functions
- created a very simple CMS for translations with Google Spreadsheet and node.js
- regularly acted as scrum master to organize daily stand-ups and prepare production releases
- actively helped with team recruitment: CV screening, interviews, and technical tests
React.js Javascript Node.js Continuous Delivery Google cloud Firebase Server Side Rendering Lead Cloud computing cucumber selenium-webdriver github Lean Pair programming
SIDEXA
Lead Front-end
BANKING AND INSURANCE
January 2017 - April 2017 (3 months)
Bourg-la-Reine, France
Development of a web application for insurance managers using es6 & 7, React / Redux, Redux-forms and semantic-ui, connected to a REST back-end.
React.js redux node Redis Heroku jenkins

Check out Benoît's experience

Pascal

Quotatis Groupe

Reviewed on 7/4/2018

Benoit worked within our full scrum team for over a year. Besides being a nice person, he has a mindset perfectly suited to modern development methods. Regarding technical skills, he is very (very) competent in javascript and ReactJS. His DevOps skills are also a significant asset. I highly recommend him... but I would prefer him to rejoin Quotatis teams :)

Gil

SIDEXA

Reviewed on 3/6/2017

Benoit is a very pleasant colleague who immediately understood our project's needs. He has a perfect command of ReactJS and its ecosystem. Very professional, serious, and proactive. I recommend him.

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