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Description

Senior freelance web developer specializing in PHP, Symfony & Laravel with over 20 years of experience in designing, developing, and refactoring scalable web applications and APIs. I combine technical expertise, architectural rigor, and team management experience to transform complex business needs into robust, maintainable, and performant solutions.

Passionate about code quality, best practices (Clean Code, automated tests, CI/CD), and performance optimization, I work on various projects: SaaS platforms, REST APIs, e-commerce, internal company tools, and custom business solutions.

I also support my clients in strengthening their teams, mentoring junior developers, and implementing development standards that ensure longevity and scalability.

👉 Available for remote or in-person freelance missions, as technical reinforcement, lead dev, or technical strategic advisor.

Services:

- Symfony Developer

- Laravel Developer

- PHP Web Developer

- Web Project Takeover

- Symfony Lead Developer

- PHP Developer Management

Industry field of expertise

Languages

French
Native or bilingual
English
Fluent

Workplace preferences

Can work on-site

Villeurbanne (up to 10km)

Freelance
Symfony & Laravel Developer
October 2015 - Today (10 years and 10 months)
Lyon, France
- Development of your Web projects
- Reinforcement of your existing teams (Lyon or remote)
- Mentoring junior developers
- Code quality monitoring
- Recruitment of technical profiles
More info on recent projects (all under Symfony/Laravel, see the "projects" section for more details):
Development in 2 weeks, under Laravel, of an interface for editing/validating legislative election data, for a major media group.
Lead Developer for the from-scratch redesign of a retro-commission calculation tool for a Wealth Management Consulting firm (Crystal) (+ upskilling of a junior developer)
Small one-page project showing the evolution of TV series episode ratings over time.
Development of 2 RESTful APIs for a mobile application, + an account management interface (Stripe payment, subscription management, etc.)
Creation of a tool for multi-posting job ads on various websites and platforms.
Development and bug fixes on an existing marketplace application (Wizaplace), as well as its API and the SDK to access it.
Development of several modules for MeilleureVisite.com (360° real estate tour site)
Development of a site for Copark, a parking co-sharing solution
Development of an Operational Marketing platform for Galénic: development of an extranet with e-learning modules, sales challenges, and a gift shop. POS management CRM. API for managing gifts and orders.
Development of a travel website (destination suggestions, itineraries, restaurants)
Development of a Tumblr management tool (task automation, batch processing)
Confidentiel
Lead Symfony Developer
July 2020 - December 2021 (1 year and 5 months)
Lyon, France
Development of 2 RESTful APIs and an account administration interface (Symfony 5, mySql 8) to interface with a mobile/desktop application:
- JWT Authentication,
- Documentation of all API routes with Swagger,
- Queuing (Messenger),
- SSE (Mercure),
- Interaction with IMAP, SMTP, Google API, Microsoft Graph API, Stripe (Payment), Mautic (Marketing Automation), S3 (file storage) services...
- Functional tests (PHPUnit),
- Code quality (PHPStan, Psalm)
- Monitoring (Sentry)
DevOps tasks:
- Creation of server instance deployment scripts for various projects
- Configuration and testing of load balancing
- Implementation of monitoring for all servers (Munin, LibreNMS)
- Documentation of server architecture
Numerikart
Lead Developer
SOFTWARE PUBLISHING
December 2013 - October 2015 (1 year and 10 months)
Lyon Area, France
- Lead a team of 4 developers
- Audit, maintenance, improvement, consolidation, and refactoring of the existing solution's code
- Application of coding standards, improvement of documentation. (PHP, MySQL, jQuery)
- Development of a new version of the main product: database design, development of various modules, unit tests (ATOUM), documentation writing, project management, coordination with the artistic director and the integrator (PHP, MySQL Rest API, jQuery, PHPixie, Twitter Bootstrap, Facebook API, ElasticSearch (NoSQL)...)
PHP 5 MySQL Elasticsearch REST API Bootstrap