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Quincy Gelan Sainte-RoseQG

Quincy Gelan Sainte-Rose

Backend Developer Symfony | PHP | REST API

€550/day
Paris, FR
8-15 years

Average response time: 1 hour

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About Quincy

Looking for a senior PHP / Symfony developer to strengthen your back-end?

💻 12 years of experience in PHP / Symfony. I work with both large corporations and startups, in various sectors: media, e-commerce, energy, insurance, health.

Among my clients: Le Figaro, L'Équipe, Audi France, Fnac Darty, LexisNexis, Engie, Audika...

What I work on:
- Creation of Symfony REST APIs - design, migration, maintenance
- Monolith decomposition & back-end redesign (Layered Architecture, DDD)
- Code quality: unit tests, code review, best practices, version upgrades
- Security & performance: vulnerability identification, optimization
- Team training (SOLID, Clean Code, Clean Architecture, CQRS, unit tests)
- Management of AI agents integrated into the development workflow (Claude Code, assisted TDD, zero regression)

My skills:
- PHP (7.0 to 8.x), Symfony (all versions)
- REST API
- Docker and CI/CD
- MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB
- Unit tests (PHPUnit)
- OAuth2, JWT, API Security
  • English

    Fluent

  • French

    Native or bilingual

Can work on-site
Paris (up to 50km), Lille (up to 50km), Bordeaux (up to 50km), Strasbourg (up to 50km), Marseille (up to 50km)

Experience

  • Audika
    Senior PHP / Symfony Developer
    MEDICAL
    July 2025 - Today (11 months)
    Saint-Ouen, France
    Audika is a company distributing hearing aids, listed on the Paris Stock Exchange until December 24, 2015.
    Founded in 1976, Audika was the first French network of hearing aid centers in France.

    Mission:
    Creation of a cash closing tool / software for all group agencies
    ▫ Work on creation, design, and training teams on the Symfony framework
    ▫ Maintenance, bug fixing of an existing application in legacy PHP
    ▫ Use of the LAST stack (LiveComponent, AssetMapper, Stimulus, and Turbo) for the different components of the cash register software
    ▫ Layered Architecture and implementation of use-cases for various functionalities

    Tool for exporting billing data to Microsoft Dynamics D365
    ▫ Implementation of XML file export scripts with Symfony Scheduler
    ▫ Transformation of data into XML files (customer records, billing, payments) for transfer to DFO

    Creation of an article / product catalog import tool
    ▫ Implementation of a tool for mass importing supplier article catalogs

    Context:
    ▫ Team: 1 Lead dev, 1 backend PHP
    ▫ Agile Method (SCRUM / Kanban)
    ▫ Technologies: PHP8, Symfony 7, Oracle, Docker, Twig
    ▫ Tools: Bitbucket, Jira, Confluence
    ▫ Unit tests: No
    ▫ Code Review: Yes
    PHP Symfony Clean Code Oracle LAST Stack
  • LexisNexis
    Senior PHP / Symfony Developer
    LEGAL
    May 2024 - May 2025 (1 year and 1 month)
    141 Rue De Javel, Paris, France
    LexisNexis is a global group with activities in professional publishing and the provision of legal and economic information services. The group itself is part of the Anglo-Dutch group RELX (formerly Reed Elsevier), one of the world's leading professional publishing and information groups.

    Mission:
    Creation of an API following the decomposition of a monolith into 2 applications: Front (Angular), and Back (PHP Symfony)
    • Work on creation, migration, and maintenance of 2 APIs and 1 application
    • Migration of endpoints from a NodeJS API to Symfony 7, and implementation of unit tests
    • Maintenance, bug fixing of an existing PHP application
    • Assistance in decomposing a monolith into 2 parts (front and back)
    • Creation of a second API to replace the back-end part (Layered Architecture)
    • Development of endpoints for creating simulations of legal proceedings via API
    Context:
    • Project duration: Ongoing
    • Team: 1 Lead, 1 backend PHP, 1 back Python
    • Agile Method (SCRUM)
    • Technologies: PHP8, Symfony 7, PostgreSQL, Docker, Angular
    • Tools: Azure DevOps
    • Unit tests: PHPUnit
    • Code Review: Yes
    PHP Symfony Clean Code REST APIs Vue.js
  • TEKSIAL
    Senior PHP / Symfony Developer
    ENVIRONMENTAL
    January 2023 - March 2024 (1 year and 2 months)
    54 Avenue Jean Jaurès, Colombes, France
    Teksial, a subsidiary of the ENGIE group, is an energy efficiency services company and a delegate for Energy Savings Certificates (CEE).
    Mission: Assistance in the redesign of the back-office & implementation of development best practices
    • Creation of an API in PHP Symfony allowing clients to create CEE financing projects
    • Upgrade of the Symfony framework from version 4 to 5.4 - Migration from PHP 7.4 to 8.2
    • Various bug fixes and security updates
    • Creation of new eligible CEE products based on government regulatory changes
    • Providing training (unit tests, SOLID principles, DDD, event sourcing in a CQRS project)
    Context:
    • Project duration: 1 year
    • Team: 8 developers, 1 Lead Dev, 3 POs.
    • Agile Method (SCRUM)
    • Technologies: PHP7.4 / PHP8, Symfony 4 to 5.4, MySQL, Redis, Docker, KAFKA, Elasticsearch,
    • Tools: Jira, Github
    • Unit tests: PHPUnit
    • Functional tests: Cypress
    • Code Review: Yes
    PHP Symfony MySQL Redis Docker

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Education

  • Expert in Computer Science Bachelor's +5, Computer Development / Programming, General
    ETNA, School for Computer Science Apprenticeship
    2014
    Expert en Informatique Bac+5, Programmation / développeur informatique, général

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