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Donovan Bridoux

Lead senior developer | Lead architect

€700/day
Paris, FR
15+ years

Average response time: 1 hour

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About Donovan

For over 15 years, I have been supporting companies (startups and/or large groups) in their IT transformations.
Whether at the organizational, design, technological choices, or implementation level, I help my clients set up an IS that serves their business and operational needs.
  • French

    Native or bilingual

  • English

    Fluent

  • Spanish

    Conversational

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

Experience

  • Jamify
    Founder
    CULTURE
    April 2025 - Today (1 year and 2 months)
    Barcelona, Spain
    • Design and development of an AI-generated backing track platform for musicians with separate stems
    • Backend implementation NestJS + PostgreSQL (stems management API, exploration, user libraries)
    • Frontend development NextJS with custom audio player based on Web Audio API (multi-track sync, controls, sync visualization)
    • Authentication/authorization setup via Supabase and JWT

    Technical environment: NextJS (v15.3), React 19, TailwindCSS (v4.1), MaterialUI (v7), Supabase, WavesurferJS (v7.9), Node22, PostgreSQL, Docker, Vercel, Render, Neon, Github copilot (Claude 3.5, Gemini 2.5 pro)

    https://www.jamify.gg

  • Brut.
    JS Lead Developer / Solutions Architect
    PRESS AND MEDIA
    June 2023 - Today (3 years)
    Paris, France
    Lead-dev - Content team 06/23 - 10/24
    • Reorganization / restructuring of a team of 7 people (devs + products)
    • Maintenance in operational condition + Improvements of the internal legacy backoffice (front + back) for video content management + distribution
    • Creation of business tools (automatic rush backup system, intelligent repost suggestion system, etc.)
    • Software infrastructure migration GCP -> AWS

    Technical environment: Node18, SailsJs, React16, MongoDB, Elasticsearch, Redis, Docker, GCP (GKE, GCS, PubSub), AWS, Kube, Gitlab

    Lead-dev / Lead solution architect - Brut. Studio team 10/24 - Now
    • Complete overhaul + design of a new business intranet (Brut. Studio)
    • Redivision of services (DDD) + Re-modeling & DB change (Elastic -> Mysql) + API Gateway
    • Implementation of APIs: Content (catalog management), Distribution (publication delivery engine), File (storage provider agnostic), Search (Elastic)
    • Implementation of a new front + BFF

    Technical environment: Node 22, NestJS (v10), MikroOrm, Mysql, Redis, ElasticSearch, NextJS (v15.3) / React19, Tailwind, AWS (EKS, RDS), Docker, GCP (GCS, PubSub), Gitlab, ArgoCD, Signoz, Github Copilot
  • Believe
    PHP/Symfony Lead Developer
    CULTURE
    April 2018 - June 2023 (5 years and 2 months)
    Paris, France
    Lead-dev - Finance ETL team 03/18 - 05/19
    • Reorganization of the legacy system for automated financial report ingestion
    • Integration of new platforms to ingest + management tools on intranet
    • Handling of large file ingestion issues

    Technical environment: Php 5.4 / 7.1, Symfony 3 / Api platform, MariaDB, HTML / CSS / JS (jquery), Scripting (Awk), Git

    Data-engineer - Datamusic team 06/19 - 05/20
    • Design + creation of a custom ETL system for analytics report ingestion
    • Handling of big data + parallel processing issues
    • Ingestion of reports over 50 GB in < 5 minutes

    Technical environment: Java (Scala), Apache Spark, Aws EMR, Aws RDS, Aws Lambda, Aws S3 (parquet), Aws SQS/SNS, Git, Sonar, gitlab CI/CD

    Lead-dev - Accolade team 06/20 - 03/21
    • Design + creation of an agnostic music catalog ingestion engine + orchestrator
    • Creation of webservices for file transformation, validation, ingestion, transfer, and product delivery
    • Automated ingestion of catalogs with millions of products

    Technical environment: Php 7.4, Symfony 4.4, REST API, Nginx, PostgresSql, Docker, Makefile, Phpunit, Behat, Aws RDS, Aws SQS, gitlab CI/CD, ArgoCD, Aws EKS + Kubernetes, Kibana, Prometheus

    Lead-dev - Backstage team 03/21 - 06/23
    • Creation of a Dockerized Symfony 5 development starter kit
    • Replacement of the legacy authentication system with Azure ADB2C
    • Creation of custom transparent migration/connection flows for users
    • Adaptation of legacy for the implementation of a micro-services architecture
    • Migration of the legacy PHP 5.4 codebase -> PHP 8.1

    Technical environment: Azure ADB2C, Php 7.1 / 8.1, Symfony 5, Docker, Makefile, Nginx, PostgresSql / MariaDB, Redis, Phpunit, Behat, Sonar, Aws RDS, gitlab CI/CD, Aws EKS + Kubernetes, Aws Cloudwatch

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Education

  • Computer Science Graduate
    SUPINFO
    2013
    École supérieure en informatique (N°1 au classement SMBG des grandes écoles d’informatique) – www.supinfo.com

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