Freelancer profile translated to English.

Description

Hello 👋

I am Sam, a fractionalCTO / VP Engineeringwith 14 years of experience: I help founders, CTOs, and CIOs scale their tech products, with strong expertise inGenerative AIand **cloud architecture**.

My approach is formalized in **Better Call Sam**: btrcallsam.com/fr

🎯 My Fractional CTO missions

*CTO as a Service/ VP Engineering / Tech Lead / Head of Engineering

Creating SaaS from scratch or redesigning an IS to a modern architecture

*Technical recruitment& team structuring, stack choices, engineering culture

**Technical audit**, tech due diligence (investment funds), product scoping

*AIStrategy: roadmap, LLM integration into the product, governance

Also available as a Senior FullStack developer (Web & Mobile)

🤖 Generative AI & Augmented Dev

*AI-assisted Dev:Claude Code, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Codex

*Product LLM Integration:Claude (Anthropic) API, OpenAI, Mistral

*AI Architectures:RAG, autonomous agents, MCP, function calling

*Vector Search:pgvector, Pinecone, embeddings

AI Strategy: use case scoping, evals, AI FinOps, safeguards

💻 Technical Stack

*Backend:Node.js, Python, PHP (Symfony, Laravel), REST & GraphQL APIs

*Frontend:React, Next.js, TypeScript, Vue, Angular

*Mobile:iOS, Android, React Native

*Data:PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, Redis

*Payment:Stripe, PayPal, Braintree

☁️ DevOps & Cloud

*Cloud:AWS, Azure, GCP

*IaC & Orchestration:Terraform, Kubernetes, Docker, GitOps

*CI/CD:GitHub Actions, GitLab CI

*Observability:Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog

**Microservices**, high availability, scalability

🏆 References

Docaposte · Veolia · Berger-Levrault · Scality · Stemmerlife

I work onshort-term missions(audit, POC, scoping) as well as **long-term commitments**. Contact me to discuss your project.

Industry field of expertise

Languages

English
Fluent
French
Native or bilingual
Spanish
Conversational
German
Basic

Workplace preferences

Can work on-site

Paris 13e Arrondissement (up to 50km)

Scality
On Malt
DevOps Engineer
TECH
August 2023 - October 2023 (2 months)
Paris, France
Assistance for setting up a protection system on Nginx
Agile methodology Nginx Docker Amazon Web Services (AWS) Python Git
Docaposte
Tech Lead Build
RETAIL (LARGE RETAILERS)
January 2021 - Today (5 years and 6 months)
Courbevoie, France
Development of a multi-channel mail sending and mail tracking platform, advanced user role management using different application rules under Symfony 4.4 and Angular 11

- Setup of RESTful APIs for communication between backend and frontend using FOSRestBundle (SF)
- Integration of unit tests, integration tests, and functional tests (API: Codeception, Angular: Karma.js, Jasmine, Integration: Selenium)
- Setup of CI/CD under Gitlab CI for the DEV, REC, PREPROD, and PROD environments
- Management of 4 developers (1 backend, 2 frontend, and 1 fullstack), code review, assistance during difficulties
- Daily development monitoring, leading Daily Scrum meetings, leading sprint retrospectives (Agile ritual)
- Setup of authentication via Keycloak
- Application security with various tools: OWASP review, Snyk, CyberWatch, Sonar Qube...
- Technical lead for the project during discussions with Docaposte's internal teams
- Estimating and costing the development time for features
- Prioritizing JIRA tickets for sprints with the Product Owner
Symfony Angular PostgreSQL Nginx Docker Keycloak Agile methodology REST
Veolia
Senior Development Lead
ENERGY AND UTILITIES
April 2019 - October 2020 (1 year and 6 months)
Aubervilliers, France
Development and maintenance of a "Planning" application for managing Veolia truck routes under Symfony 4.4
- Interaction and development coordination with the various Android, Java, and Angular teams within the RVD (Waste Recycling and Valorization) unit
- Setup of unit tests, integration tests, and functional tests (Codeception, Karma.js)
- Setup of RESTful APIs for various necessary exchanges for the application's proper functioning
- Deployment on different EC2 instances and ALB instances

Technical environment: Docker Compose (Nginx, Php, MongoDB), Symfony 4.4, PHP 7.3, Webpack Encore, SCSS / HTML 5, RESTful API - CentOS 7, MongoDB 4.0, AWS
Symfony 4 MySQL Nginx Docker Microservices MongoDB Agile methodology Material Design