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Benjamin Robert

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CTO | Symfony Developer | SaaS

€547/day
33 projects
Lyon, FR
3-7 years

Average response time: 1 hour

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About Benjamin

💻 CTO / Symfony Developer & Tech Co-pilot.
💡 Modernize or create your SaaS without breaking everything.
✅ My method: understand → build → make reliable.

🧑‍💻 My Offer


I help SMEs, startups, and scale-ups modernize their internal tools. I develop web applications and business CRMs with Symfony, PHP, and React. Goal: design reliable, high-performance solutions aligned with your needs.

Each mission is based on 3 pillars:

1- Understand your usage before writing a line of code.
2- Build in blocks: deliver fast, test, validate, improve.
3- Ensure long-term reliability: security, maintenance, scalability.

🧑‍💻 My Experience: +20 projects, including:


🎓 ASTPrep: SaaS Platform, TAGE MAGE preparation
Managing hundreds of simultaneous users, tens of thousands of € in MRR.

💰 S’investir: Wealth Management Firm
Development of a business CRM to centralize client management, automate follow-ups, and streamline case tracking. Result: a clear tool that halved client processing time.

🎓 Senza Formations: Training Organization
Redesign and optimization of 3 internal tools: improved security, faster loading times, and added key new features for the teams. Result: a faster system perfectly adapted to daily business needs.

🧑‍💻 What I Do

  • Business process automation
  • Symfony / PHP / ReactJS Development
  • SaaS Platforms and API Development
  • Custom CRM and Internal Tool Creation
  • Maintenance, Audit, and Performance Optimization

🙋‍♂️ Full-stack developer for 7 years, product and business-oriented.
I create useful, stable, and durable tools.

No jargon or AI to "make it look good": just concrete solutions that save time.

📩 Need a reliable Symfony developer and tech co-pilot?
Contact me, I'll make your tools a true performance lever
  • English

    Conversational

  • Spanish

    Basic

  • French

    Native or bilingual

Can work on-site
Lyon (up to 50km), Paris (up to 50km), Genève (up to 50km)

Experience

  • VR Planet SAS
    Malt logoOn Malt
    Technical & Product Audit SwiftLogist — MVP Diagnosis and Roadmap
    TRANSPORTATION
    May 2026 - May 2026
    Technical & Product Audit for SwiftLogist — MVP Diagnosis and Roadmap

    €50k invested over 2 years with an external agency, without a usable platform at the end: previous team gone, technical dependencies locked with the provider, a founder blocked by their MVP.

    I conducted acomprehensive auditacross 7 dimensions (Symfony back-end, React front-end, database, DevOps, security, code quality, functional coverage), mapping 89 features. Verdict: 30-40% of the code recoverable, core business to be rebuilt, dependency on the agency to be broken.

    The client receivedclear deliverables:detailed audit report, prioritized 3-sprint roadmap (sovereignty → stabilization → monetization), clear MVP decisions, and a costed plan within a defined budget.

    The founder regained control of their platform and has an operational plan to deliver a marketable beta in 2 months. Development mission started immediately after.
    SaaS MVP Audit Symfony CTO
  • ASTPrep
    CTO as a Service
    EDUCATION AND E-LEARNING
    October 2025 - May 2026 (7 months)
    An e-learning platform that existed. But couldn't grow anymore.

    ASTPrep, a leading platform for AST entrance exam preparation, had a functional base: courses, exercises, subscriptions. It worked. But the architecture couldn't keep up: limited performance, blocked features, too slow evolutions.

    The founders needed a technical partner capable of taking charge of the product — not just a developer to execute tickets.

    My mission as an outsourced CTO: take over technical leadership, modernize the stack, deliver key features, and lay a solid foundation for scaling by structuring a tech team.

    🔧 What I built and managed:
    → Complete architecture overhaul: Symfony 7.1, PHP 8.2+, Docker/FrankenPHP, caching, modern frontend.
    → High-performance video streaming, timed mock exams with automatic scoring, guided progress tracking, spaced repetition flashcards.
    → Structured monetization: Stripe subscriptions, conditional access.
    → Business automations: asynchronous workflows, CRM sync, notifications, transactional emails.
    → Comprehensive admin panel, Sentry monitoring, tool-assisted code quality.

    ✅ Result: a stable, high-performance platform, adopted by students — and most importantly, capable of evolving without breaking everything with each new requirement.

    💼 Have a SaaS that's running but plateauing?
    No in-house CTO, a hindering stack, features waiting too long?

    This is exactly what I do: I take on the role of an outsourced CTO, I structure, I deliver, and I evolve your product — with you, over time.
    CTO as a Service Symfony SaaS Stripe Scaleway
  • S'investir
    Malt logoOn Malt
    Development of a custom business CRM
    BANKING AND INSURANCE
    July 2025 - August 2025 (1 month)
    Development of a custom business CRM for a wealth management consulting firm

    As part of their information system overhaul, a wealth management consulting firm wanted to implement asecure CRMwith integratedDMSand full action traceability to meetregulatory requirements (AMF, GDPR)and improve their internal efficiency.

    My intervention covered thedesign, development, and deploymentof the first key module of the application, in close collaboration with business stakeholders.

    During this mission, I was involved in:

    • Designing the backend architecture inSymfony6 to ensure the CRM's scalability and maintainability.
    • Integrating a third-party CRM API (O2S) withOAuth2authentication and asynchronous event management via RabbitMQ to automatically synchronize documents.
    • Developing amirroring DMSengine withdocument versioningand multi-criteria classification (client, type, date).
    • Implementing acomprehensive logging system(viewing, adding, modifying, deleting) with the ability to export to PDF/CSV filtered by client or period.
    • Developing a userCRUDand clientCRUDwith fine-grained access control.
    • Configuring anddeploying a testing and production environmentonsecure servers(Tier 4 certification), with support for initial user onboarding.
    👉🏻
    Technologies:
    • PHP, Symfony 6, API Platform
    • PostgreSQL
    • RabbitMQ
    • OAuth2
    • Docker, Git

Reviews

5.0

Out of 21 ratings

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Dmitry

PDG - VR Planet SAS

Reviewed on 5/14/2026

Benjamin conducted a very thorough audit on a complex project with little technical documentation and partial source code access. He quickly grasped the business and technical challenges of the platform, while being able to identify critical points, architectural inconsistencies, and priority areas for improvement. I particularly appreciated his work method: structured, clear, and solution-oriented. Communication was always smooth and professional, with a real ability to simplify technical topics and propose coherent trade-offs between redesign, optimization, and maintaining the existing system. I recommend Benjamin without hesitation.
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Giuliano

Yumind

Reviewed on 11/13/2025

Benjamin is a real help in launching the project. He brings an external perspective that allows us to move in the right direction. Ultra-fast and always available to answer questions.

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Education

  • Computer Science Degree
    CNAM
    2020
  • University Diploma in Technology in Computer Science
    IUT Belfort Montbéliard
    2019
    Formation générale en informatique. Les langages PHP, Java, SQL et C y sont étudiés ainsi que des matières générales comme les mathématiques, l'économie et le droit.

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