Mélissa Kouko Beuze

Development of websites for associations

- Primarily used CMS: Wordpress

- Volunteer missions

Front end developer at BNP Paribas for Cortex FX, an advanced multi-product FX trading platform.

Cortex FX is the 1st FX platform on the market (Group A) and a multi-awarded platform. It allows traders (internal and external) to trade on multiple products, such as Cash (OBO, SWAP, Spot...), Options (Vanilla, Target, Asian...), Algo (BNP custom algorithms), Orders (Stop Loss, Take profit...) and many more.

Stack:

• Angular / Web component / Vanilla JS

• Typescript

• ES6

• RX

• Live stream, live Data

• Karma / Jasmines for unit tests

• Less compiler (css)

• Openfin (operating environment for financial institution based on Electron)

• Monorepo - NX (More than 150 in-house modules)

Other dev info:

• Custom Cache/Store system

• Code Reviewing

• High Quality code. Reusable code (minimum 2 reviewers per PR).

• 3rd party libs such as: ag-grid, hightchart

• In-house cross-platform framework: vanilla-js components, design system, web components

• Support management

• Git (bitbucket)

• CI/CD Team City (for deployment)

Project Management:

• Atlassian (JIRA)

• Scrum (monthly sprint)

• Deal with server-side team and cross platform services teams (Pricing, booking...)

Other:

• English Environment (Paris/London/Mumbai)

• Worldwide Group B trading platform

• A team of 15 front-end developers, 5 BAs, 10 testers (All only for the front-end part)

• High pressure environment (An average of $15Billion traded on the app each day, up to $500M per trade)

My role:

- Mainly adding new functionalities to an existing module

- Using existing services and components to be able to price a certain amount from a currency to another at a specific date

- Adding new APIs to the Front

- Debugging / Fixing bugs

- Treating support cases from clients

1) Front-end Developer on the www.sfr.fr website using Angular (8 to 13):

- Adding and modifying components in collaboration with an HTML/CSS integrator

- Dynamizing HTML templates with their TypeScript controllers

- Updating services, models - Using RxJS, Observables, Subject, Promises

- Environment management and deployment with Kubernetes

- Site in SSR, using Angular Universal

- Adding tagging elements for analytics (for an event, or simple page visit for example)

- Performance improvement (monitoring Web Core Vitals indicators using Dareboost: LCP, CLS, etc...)

- Using SonarQube to improve code quality

Some actions performed:

- Angular version upgrade

- Setting up SonarQube locally, on Jenkins and on GitlabCI

- Displaying an eligibility banner for technologies (fiber, cable, adsl, or 4G) when a customer is connected and updating internet offers proposed based on their eligibility - retrieving API data, processing data mainly with RxJS and displaying data on the HTML template

- Developing custom features for special sales such as PS5, video projector, BOX + TV, ShowroomPrivé partnership

- Graphic redesigns and logic updates according to business rules (internet offers, mobile offers, arrival of 5G, phone cards, refurbished phones, etc.)

- Project to optimize BACK service responses to reduce display times - reorganizing Angular models and services

2) Vanilla JavaScript Developer on the SFR pre-cart

- Implementing the "list of phones" section offered to the customer when they add a mobile offer to the cart

- Retrieving the HTML template via HTTP request

- Dynamizing template elements with JavaScript

- Managing adding to cart

- Adding internet and mobile option sections

- Managing mobile accessories

- Managing promotional codes

3) Developing a back office for managing user rights for other back offices in Angular

- CRUD management

- Using an Angular template

4) Scrum Master (rotating):

- Agile project - Scrum in 2-week sprints

- Facilitating daily meetings, sprint planning, and sprint retrospectives

- Adding/Modifying/Tracking JIRA tickets

- Tracking points/Managing velocity