EXPERIENCE
LEAD BACKEND ENGINEER
Testapic (then UserTesting) // Remote // 03/2022 – 06/2023
• Animate the backend Guild meetings introducing technical topics (Testapic)
• Drafted good practice and guidelines for the team along with Clean Architecture and DDD most critical concepts (Testapic)
• Partnered with the Security team, which lead to the full correction of the highest and medium vulnerabilities (Testapic)
• Re-implement the existing session storage manager, resulting in 50% less traffic in the DataStore (Testapic)
• Support the CTO and Data team to prune the existing overcomplex data, which result in the deletion of 25% of SQL tables (Testapic)
• Received coaching and support from peer senior backend engineers to gain practical experience in using Clojure with Emacs, which enabled me to upgrade the shared utility library on 20+ services
Technologies: Clojure, PHP (Zend, Symfony), GCP, Postgres, MySQL, RabbitMQ, Docker, Terraform
LEAD BACKEND ENGINEER
Eurecab // Paris then Full remote // 07/2017 – 03/2022
• Spearheaded design and implementation of multiple critical services:
o Driver/Rider matching algorithm
o First party REST API for both Rider and Driver app
o Driver geolocation tracking and real time events
o Quote estimation engine to our partners API (requests parallelization)
o Coupon discount system
o Feature flags
• Bring Unit Testing culture to the team, coverage went from 0 to 60% while still actively developing new features.
• Maintain and optimize the CI pipeline speed by 30%
• Move legacy monolith parts to an Event Driven Architecture, which led to a significative improvement in performance and stability
Technologies: Laravel, Redis, AWS, Firebase, Pusher, VueJS, WebSocket, supervisor
BACKEND ENGINEER
Alchimie //Aubervilliers // 09/2014 – 06/2017
• Integrate worldwide mobile operator payment solution (Orange, SFR, Bouygues, Telcel, AT&T, Movistar, O2, T-Mobile, …)
• Developed a Zendesk app plugged with an internal API to help support agents with their daily tasks
Technologies: Zend, Redis, Memcache, RabbitMQ, Splunk, JavaScript, React
BACKEND ENGINEER
Smile // Paris // 09/2012 – 06/2014
• Built ******** website using Drupal including a custom newsletter module, entity state flow machine, translatable media library, responsive design
• Collaborated with senior engineers on the Louvre Hotels Group (Campanile, Kyriad, Premiere Classe) brand websites
• Implemented a mini website factory for Louvre Hotels Group, that resulted in the creation of 500+ sub domains for hotel landing page which greatly improved SEO
• Developed an internal system of document classification (custom modules/themes/content/taxonomy) and provide documentation and customer training on the project for the Sorbonne library intranet
Technologies: Drupal, Solr, Redis, Memcache, Varnish (with ESI tags), LXC, jQuery, MySQL, PerconaDB