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Fabrice GhysdaelFG

Fabrice Ghysdael

Supermalter

Expert Transversal Technique

€750/day
2 projects
Villemoisson-sur-Orge, FR
15+ years

Average response time: 1 hour

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About Fabrice

Senior Software Engineer with 15+ years of experience, specializing in complex systems, software architecture, quality, and delivery.
As a technical referent, I help you build, analyze, and unblock situations (technical debt, business, organizational) through examples to secure your critical products, accelerate decision-making, and sustainably improve team practices.
  • English

    Fluent

  • French

    Native or bilingual

Can work on-site
Villemoisson-sur-Orge (up to 20km)

Experience

  • BNPP CIB
    COACH SOFTWARE CRAFTSMANSHIP & AI INTEGRATION
    BANKING AND INSURANCE
    January 2025 - January 2026 (1 year)
    Montreuil, France
    **Context**: 3 critical applications, delivery slowed down by tests, technical debt, multi-site teams.



    **Actions**:


    • Implementation of a craftsmanship culture (TDD, BDD, clean code) in the teams (Paris, Chennai, Lisbon).
    • POC and training on AI-assisted development (GPTOSS, RooCode).
    • POC and migration to CI for E2E test automation with Cypress, Playwright, Robot Framework.
    • POC and implementation of mutation testing (PIT Test) and stored procedure tests with UTPLSQL.
    • DevOps migration from an internal solution to Gitops with ArgoCD for Kubernetes and to Ansible / XLRelease for VMs.

    **Results**:


    • Unblocking of CI tests, blocked for 1 year.
    • High-performance CI (Jenkins / GitlabCI / ArgoCD / Kubernetes) with optimized pipelines for each application.
    • 30% reduction in production bugs.
    • Teams trained in AI-assisted development (20+ developers).
    Coaching Software Craftsmanship Artificial Intelligence Kubernetes DevOps
  • GEOPOST
    SOFTWARE ARCHITECT / TECH LEAD
    TRANSPORTATION
    March 2023 - January 2025 (1 year and 10 months)
    Issy-les-Moulineaux, France
    **Context**: 4 critical applications: MDM, API Key Management, Leadtime (package delivery date prediction), and SSO.



    **Actions**:


    • MDM: architecture, design, and development for incorporating evolutions, implementation of GraphQL and Kafka, deployment optimization (Helm and Kubernetes), observability setup (Prometheus, Grafana).
    • SSO: based on Keycloak, implementation of two-factor authentication (2FA).
    • Leadtime: complete redesign in 3 months (DDD model, Postgres BDD schemas, microservices architecture, Java/Spring boot, GitlabCI CI/CD) of the application, which had been dysfunctional for 3 years. BDD and API performance tests via Jmeter, integrated into GitlabCI.
    • API Key Management: based on Kong. V2 architecture (DDD model, bounded contexts, UI, software and system architecture, user workflows). Deployment on Kubernetes via Helm and GitlabCI.
    • Greenfield development of a solution for backing up the MDM MongoDB database to AWS S3, triggered via Kubernetes CronJobs.
    • Implementation of craft and clean code best practices within the team.
    • Development and integration into CI (GitlabCI) of automated E2E tests (Cypress) for MDM and API Key Management.

    **Results**:


    • 50% acceleration of production deployments with Kubernetes.
    • Functional delivery date prediction APIs with performance of 34ms at 1500 calls/s.
    • 30% reduction in MDM production bugs thanks to automated tests, observability, and MongoDB backups restorable in minutes for bug reproduction.
    • Teams trained in craft and clean code (5 developers).
    Tech Lead IS Architecture Software Architecture Software Craftsmanship DevOps
  • BFORBANK
    TECH LEAD DEVOPS GREENFIELD FOR THE FUTURE ONLINE NEOBANK
    BANKING AND INSURANCE
    June 2022 - March 2023 (9 months)
    Puteaux, France
    **Context**: Greenfield creation of the online banking payment section.



    **Actions**:


    • Design and architecture of the solution in DDD: model, bounded contexts, ubiquitous language with domain experts and the 5 developers of the team, in sync with the architecture department.
    • Development of the BFF and participation in the greenfield development in Java Spring Boot with a microservices architecture based on Kafka (outbox pattern with PostgreSQL then Kafka stream).
    • Implementation of CI with GitlabCI and CD with Gitops based on ArgoCD / Helm / Kubernetes (Google Cloud GKE).
    • Development of automated test solutions (Robot Framework) in CI and an API stub solution. Mutation testing (PIT Test) to validate unit test quality.
    • Development of an on-demand deployment solution (BFF, microservices, stub server, test Kafka, Robot Framework test automation) on local Kubernetes (Docker Desktop) to allow developers to work autonomously.
    • Training the team on TDD / BDD / Craft and clean code best practices through katas and workshops.

    **Results**:


    • No technical debt or defects 6 months after production.
    • High-performance business application: beneficiary management, standard and instant bank transfers.
    • High-performance CI based on Gitops, TTM halved compared to initial estimates.
    • Teams trained in TDD / BDD / Craft (5 developers).
    Tech Lead Software Architecture Microservices DevOps GKE

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Education

  • DUT Physical Measurements
    IUT Orsay, Paris XI University
    2006
    Major de promotion.
  • Dual Engineering/Master's Degree, Computer Science specialization.
    Polytech Paris Sud
    2010

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