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With over 10 years of experience as a developer, including 6 years as a Lead Developer, I offer my services as a CTO (as a service) or Tech Lead to support companies in their tech projects. My approach encompasses software architecture, user experience, code quality, and team management and recruitment.
⚡️ My Strengths :
- In-depth knowledge of the JS / TS ecosystem, particularly React.js (+8 years) and Next.js
- Creation of fluid interfaces and modular architectures
- Understanding of back-end architectures and their impact on user experience
- Experience in product development, ensuring innovative and user-centric solutions
I have worked at Ulule, a leader in crowdfunding in Europe (2 million registered users, several million € collected each month), Les Echos - Le Parisien group, and Canal+ on large-scale projects (from scratch) with several thousand daily visitors simultaneously.
I would now like to share my experience with nascent or early-growth projects.
🖥️ Examples of missions :
- Development of technical roadmaps aligned with your product, UX, and quality objectives
- Audit and optimization of front-end architectures while considering back-end requirements
- Development of a consistent design system for all your products
- Development of a DevOps culture to accelerate development cycles while ensuring quality delivery
- Coordination between product, design, and development teams to align objectives
- Coaching teams to adopt best development practices
- Assistance with developer recruitment and advice on building technical teams
- Strategic consulting for flexible methodologies adapted to your project
Feel free to contact me to discuss your project and agree on a price tailored to your needs.
English
Fluent
French
Native or bilingual
Can work on-site
Paris (up to 10km)
Experience
- STATION FLead Full-Stack DeveloperPRIVATE EQUITYFebruary 2025 - Today (1 year and 4 months)Paris, FranceSTATION F is the largest startup campus in the world. Across more than50,000 m²**, it hosts over **1,000 startupsspread across **30 incubation programs**.I am supporting the Station F team in the **overhaul of HAL**, the campus's central management system, **used daily by over 5,000 users**. HAL connects resident entrepreneurs, partners, investors, and the internal team, playing a key role in the campus's operations.🎯 Objective: Optimize interactions and workflows to drive innovation within this unique ecosystem.
- CHANELTech LeadLUXURY GOODSDecember 2023 - July 2024 (7 months)Neuilly-sur-Seine, FranceSupport on afrom-scratch technical overhaulof thechanel.comwebsite, deployed in 54 countries and over 10 different languages.🚨 The situation upon my arrival was challenging:
- The website's state was not up to par for a luxury brand, with complicated deployments requiring maintenance pages.
- The codebase was of poor quality with frequent bugs, including in production.
- Maintenance was handled by offshore teams in feature teams.
- There was no/limited up-to-date functional and technical documentation.
🎯 I was brought in to achieve these goals:- Migrate to a new (in-house) CMS.
- Transition from a monolithic architecture to a "headless" architecture with Next.js.
- Improve code quality and development processes.
- Facilitate deployments without service interruption.
💥 I played a key role in implementing these technologies and development practices:- Use of Next.js 14 (App Router and React Server Components) in a monorepo.
- Implementation of CI/CD.
- Code reviews and pair programming to ensure quality and collaboration.
- Rigorous QA strategy to minimize production bugs.
👥 I managed the team and projects:- The technical team consisted of 9 people: 5 front-end developers (1 lead / 4 devs), 2 back-end developers (1 lead / 1 dev), and 2 DevOps.
- I assisted them daily with major technical decisions.
- I collaborated closely with the Product Owner and Business Analysts to prepare technical and functional specifications, including task breakdown and planning.
- Les ÉchosLead Front-end DeveloperPRESS AND MEDIAJune 2019 - July 2023 (4 years and 2 months)Paris, France
- Improvement of the front-end architecture for Les Echos website.
- Complete redesign of the "Les Echos Investir" stock market website to **completely rethink the experience for readers and subscribers**.
- Work on website performance to **increase daily traffic**.
- Assistance in migrating the codebase from Flow to Typescript (strict mode) to **improve project maintainability**.
- Integration of gpt.js & prebid.js toincrease advertising revenue(result of this development: **+30% advertising revenue**).
- Support in implementing styled-system.
- Continuous training of the development team (5 people) on advanced topics (SSR, performance, architecture, React patterns).
- Recruitment and onboarding of new developers.
- Consulting and Proof of Concepts on GraphQL, back-end in Next.js, etc.
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Education
- Computer EngineeringEfrei2015Spécialité Architecture des Systèmes d'Informations