François Delbrayelle

Fully remote

Plugins / Integrations team

Context:

• Functional: Creating workflows for data engineers, platform engineers and software engineers
• Business: Orchestration and automation
• Methodology: 2-month cycles (minor versions of Kestra core)
• Team: +/- 30 people
• Scale: 30+ enterprise customers - millions of workflows executed / month

Achievements:

• Maintenance of 150+ plugin repositories, storages and secrets managers (OSS & EE)
• Growth from 600 to 1100+ plugins in 8 months (+83%): creation from scratch of Mistral, Deepseek, Beam, Bluesky, VMware EE, SAP EE, 1Password plugins...
• 6600+ GitHub contributions since joining
• Stabilization of critical plugins (JDBC, Git, FS, Serdes...) and reduction of flaky tests (e.g. Kubernetes EE: from 2h15 to 15 min)
• Added and fixed hundreds of tests, set up a daily CI on kestra:develop
• Broad community support: hundreds of issues handled (Hacktoberfest, regular events, Pylon tickets)
• Implementation of a new release lifecycle and automated continuous releases across 1100+ plugins; dogfooding Kestra for plugin automation (LinkedIn post)
• New Git Sync with NamespaceSync & TenantSync (OSS & EE)
• Contribution to Kestra core: AI Copilot (Speech-to-Text)
• Co-design of the Plugin Metadata & Releases API architecture, performance improvements
• Org-wide scope: interactions with every team (Engineering, Sales, Customer Success, DevRel, Product) as the main interface for the plugin ecosystem
• Structuring the Plugins team: priorities, dashboards, work distribution, mentoring, onboarding
• Organization of cooldown topics: flakiness, disabled tests, shared OSS/EE lib, weekly reports
• Pioneer of AI tools adoption at Kestra: co-authoring AI Coding Agent Guidelines (internal), creating the Engineering AI Hub (internal), public MCP for plugins & blueprints (blog post incoming on kestra.io/blogs)
• Conferences: DevLille 2025 & DevLille 2026 (talk on Kestra, plugins & AI agents), Big Data London 2025, Data Days Lille 2026
• DevRel contribution: videos (Python/Go/JS SDK, Gemini/Ollama/OpenAI/Salesforce/VMware plugins), blog articles (VMware, infrastructure plugins), LinkedIn posts
• Assistance with recruitment (3 engineers) and partnerships (Conapi GmbH, WeScale)

Tech stack: Java 21+, Micronaut, Gradle, Vue 3, Nuxt 3, Kafka, ElasticSearch, Kubernetes, Docker, Google Cloud Platform, PostgreSQL, git, GitHub Actions, ArgoCD, Terraform, Elasticsearch Logstash Kibana, Grafana

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Fully remote

Tribe Transaction - Squad Project (10 months)

Context:

• Functional: Management of project / mission tracking between clients and freelancers
• Business: Domains of quotes, projects, expenses, activity tracking, end-of-mission recommendations
• Methodology: Kanban - No Estimates - Focus / Cool-Down
• Team: +/- 10 people
• Scale: 700,000+ freelancers - 350,000+ enterprise clients - 60,000+ client projects / year

Achievements:

• Major technical migration of the freelance quotes domain from JSP/HBS/JS/Vue 2 (legacy) to Vue 3 / Nuxt 3 + creation of a new domain and new APIs.
• Technical migration of the freelance recommendations domain (by clients following end of mission) from JSP/HBS/JS/Vue 2 (legacy) to Vue 3 / Nuxt 3 + creation of a new domain and new APIs.
• Team facilitation with introduction of new rituals: demo, daily sync, JIRA templates, QA tracking document, etc.

Fully remote

Tribe Staffing - Squad Matching (21 months)

Context:

• Functional: Applicant Tracking System / Freelancing
• Business: Domains of freelancer search and project creation by enterprise clients
• Methodology: Kanban - No Estimates - Focus / Cool-Down
• Team: +/- 10 people
• Scale: 700,000+ freelancers - 350,000+ enterprise clients - 200,000+ searches / month

Achievements:

• Following the Comatch acquisition, new project funnel dedicated to a strategic category of freelancers
• Redesign of project / brief start date and duration management
• Technical migration of the freelancer search domain from JSP/HBS/JS (legacy) to Vue 3 / Nuxt 3
• Technical migration of the Vue 2 (legacy) project list to Vue 3 / Nuxt 3
• Redesign of the new service level system and implementation of a blocking system to prevent by-pass (profile view counter for logged-in users, requirement to create an account and log in to view a profile, removal of information that could be used to find a freelancer outside the site...)
• Design of an advanced search partly based on generative AI
• Proof of concept built during an AI hackathon to find freelancers whose portfolio contains images matching a text or image search (text to image, image to image) using Vertex AI and QDrant (vector database)

Architecture and technical leadership:

• Maintaining advanced knowledge sharing (capitalization/documentation/impacts on Notion)
• Writing ADR (architectural decision records) to track discussions
• Running technical workshops and dev sync meetings with the team and other stakeholders (ops, ...)
• Synchronization points with tech leads from other squads
• Inter-squad synchronization points
• Close collaboration with Product Manager and Product Designer
• On-boarding of new team members (specific documentation, mentoring, pair/mob-programming...)
• Organization of event stormings to define domain boundaries

Software craftsmanship: code review, Test-Driven Development (TDD), pair-programming (with developers, platform engineers), mob-programming, CI/CD, ...

Development and testing: implementation of new features and bug fixes. On-call support rotation.

Back-end, front-end and SRE guilds member

Tech stack: Kotlin, Java 17+, Monorepo, Hexagonal architecture, CQRS, Spring Boot, Gradle, Vue 3, Nuxt 3, RabbitMQ, Kafka, jOOQ, Kubernetes, Docker, Google Cloud Platform (Kubernetes Engine, Memorystore, Cloud Storage, BigQuery, ...), Testcontainers, PostgreSQL, Mongo, Redis, Keycloak, git, GitLab, GitLab CI, ArgoCD, Terraform, Datadog, Elasticsearch Logstash Kibana, Grafana

🗣️ Talks given:

• Conference "GDPR for developers" (slides) at Malt Tech Days 2023

🌍 Conference attendance:

• DevFest Lille 2024
• DevFest Lille 2023
• Devoxx 2023

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Knowledge sharing:

🧑‍🏫 Training delivered:

• Spring Expert (Core, Hibernate, JPA, Boot, Data, Batch, Web MVC, Security, Integration...) over multiple 3-day sessions internally at Ippon and for clients (Brittany Ferries). Improvement and redesign of the training materials (slides and exercises) as a team.

👨‍🎓 Training received:

• Solutions Architect (2 days internal) with hands-on scenarios (architecture katas)
• Keycloak (2 days internal) with exercises (admin interface usage, kcadm, social login, creating a plugin, customizing a login page)
• API management (2 days internal) with exercises on Azure API Management
• Udemy Apache Kafka with the goal of obtaining the Confluent Certified Developer for Apache Kafka certification

📰 Technical content writing:

• Point of contact for the Ippon blog for the full-stack practice (organization, mentoring, editorial choices...)
• How to improve the developer experience (DevX)? on the WeLoveDevs blog
• Articles written on the Ippon blog:
• Passing the GCP Professional Cloud Architect certification
• Testing the nua.ge IaaS public cloud
• Liquibase in an init container on GCP
• Creating a JHipster module: a way to contribute to open source
• Kafka and JHipster? It’s possible!
• WebStories Lille 2021

🗣️ Talks given:

• Conference "REST, gRPC, GraphQL, Webhooks: in which situations?" (slides - video) at Sunny Tech 2022 (01/07/2022)
• Conference "REST, gRPC, GraphQL, Webhooks: in which situations?" (slides - video) at Voxxed Days Luxembourg 2022 (22/06/2022)
• Conference "GDPR for developers" (slides - video) at DevFest Lille 2022 (10/06/2022)
• Twitch Presentation of the Nua.ge offering (25/02/2022)
• Conference "REST, gRPC, GraphQL, Webhooks: in which situations?" (slides - video) at Touraine Tech 2022 (21/01/2022)
• IppDéj in pairs on contract testing with Tavern Testing (24/02/2020)
• Presentation of JHipster in a lunch-and-learn session at Epitech Lille (27/11/2019)

🗣️ Tech Community Ambassador:

• Sponsoring at local Meetups
• Liaison between Ippon speakers and local Meetup organizations
• Member of the DevFest Lille 2022 organization as a CFP reviewer (without voting rights)
• IppDéj and IppApéro in pairs to launch a CFP review committee for major events and organize at national and local level

🌍 Conference attendance:

• Sunny Tech 2022
• Voxxed Days Luxembourg 2022
• DevFest Lille 2022
• Devoxx 2022
• Touraine Tech 2022
• Cloud Nord 2021
• WebStories 2021
• Cloud Nord 2020
• Agile Tour Lille 2019
• Microsoft Ignite the Tour 2019

Career development and agency life:

🥋 Black Belt (career progression objectives program):

• 🟢 Solution Architecture: green belt in progress (11/14 objectives validated)
• ⚫ Full-Stack: black belt in progress (8/12 objectives validated)
• 🟤 Full-Stack: brown belt validated (12/12 objectives validated)

🧙‍♂️ Mentoring:

• Mentoring of several more junior full-stack developers (belts: orange, green, blue, brown) in their annual objectives (assignment, knowledge sharing, article writing, events...)

🤝 Technical interview reviewer for candidates at various levels (interns, apprentices, juniors, seniors) in collaboration with HR.

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Galeries Lafayette - February 2021 to September 2022 (20 months)

Fully remote

Multi-channel services / APIs (e-commerce, mobile...)

Context:

• Functional: Sales / E-Commerce
• Business: PIM and checkout funnel. Redesign of the Galeries Lafayette e-commerce website (B2C) as part of the NewGL accelerator program to decommission the legacy system and unify product sheets with STEP as the central PIM tool. Services and APIs for the GL IS (e-commerce, in-store seller portal, checkout, mobile app).
• Methodology: Agile (Scrum - 2-week sprints - SAFe with monthly PI planning)
• Team: +/- 10 people
• Scale: Hundreds of thousands of products indexed each day - 60 million visitors across 290 stores and e-commerce sites each year

Achievements:

• Architecture and technical leadership:
  • Cross-functional tech lead on Product Information Management (PIM) and the checkout funnel
  • Creation and modification of micro-services with a design first approach (OpenAPI) and hexagonal architecture for implementation
  • Design of UML diagrams: components (scope mapping), use cases and sequence diagrams
  • Maintaining advanced knowledge sharing (capitalization/documentation/impacts on Confluence)
  • Writing ADR (architectural decision records) to track discussions
  • Running technical workshops and dev sync meetings with the team and other stakeholders (ops, ...)
  • Synchronization points with tech leads from other teams
  • Revitalizing the NewGL developer community
  • Support as technical contact with various teams and stakeholders: front, BFF, seller portal app, checkout app, legacy apps and ops
  • Close collaboration with PO and SM
  • Architecture workshops and writing of RICEFW (Reports, Interface, Conversion, Enhancements, Forms, and Workflows), IFS (InterFace Specifications) and NFR (Non Functional Requirements) to support the implementation of SAP Commerce Cloud (replatforming)
  • On-boarding of new team members (specific documentation, mentoring, pair/mob-programming...)
• Software craftsmanship: code review, Test-Driven Development (TDD), Behavior-Driven Development (BDD), pair-programming (with developers, cloud engineers), mob-programming, CI/CD, mocks, ...
• Continuous improvement of development quality (Sonar tracking)
• Studies, development and testing: implementation of new features and bug fixes on APIs and domain components (Offer, Merch, Product, Asset, Cart, Delivery, Payment, Customer, ...)
• 100% back-end role across about twenty microservices (RESTful APIs) but with occasional need to understand BFF code (Apollo Server GraphQL), front-end code (in Vue 3 and GraphQL) or Jenkins library code (in Groovy)
• Scrum master role to facilitate the team in Scrum rituals (daily, retrospectives, ...)
• Promotion of agile and DevOps practices within the team and across teams
• Use of Kafka as a backbone for communication between different components
• Use of Webhooks for Slack Incoming Webhooks and price/stock updates for marketplace offers from Mirakl
• Use of e-commerce tools: Mirakl (marketplace), STEP (PIM) (Master Data Management), Fredhopper (catalog pages and facets), Grand Shooting (asset management), Target2Sell (recommendation engine), Early Birds, Hybris (legacy), Cloudflare, TwicPics, Algolia (Site Search), Ogone (card PSP), Prosodie (gift card PSP), Braintree (PayPal PSP)...
• 100% full remote organization (Slack, Mural, Google Meet, IntelliJ Code With Me, ...) throughout the engagement

Tech stack: Java 12 and 17, Kotlin, Python, Groovy, Micro-services, Hexagonal architecture, Spring Boot, Cucumber, Open API, PlantUML, Kafka, Kafka Streams, Kafka Connect, Aiven, Kubernetes, Docker, Arrow, MockK, vavr, Google Cloud Platform (Kubernetes Engine, Cloud SQL, Memorystore, Cloud Storage, Cloud Functions, BigQuery, ...), Testcontainers, Cerberus, Karate, PostgreSQL, Redis, GraphQL, Webhooks, Keycloak, git, Bitbucket, Jenkins, ArgoCD, Terraform, Dynatrace, Elasticsearch Logstash Kibana, Grafana

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Leroy Merlin - October 2019 to February 2021 (17 months)

On-site (Lezennes) - Partial and full remote

Web application for tracking client construction projects

Context:

• Functional: Sales
• Business: International deployment (notably to Portugal and Brazil) of the installation intranet application (Instala) linked to the client construction project hub in a highly competitive sector (retail/e-commerce and DIY) with convergence of French (LMFR) and Portuguese (LMPT) applications
• Methodology: Agile (Scrum - Kanban - No Estimates - 3 Amigos - Squads), product-oriented team per the Thiga framework (OKR...)
• Team: +/- 25 people
• Scale: Hundreds of construction projects each week - Thousands of users (in-store advisors and craftsmen)

Achievements:

• Architecture and technical leadership:
  • Lead dev on one of the product team squads in collaboration with the tech lead
  • Creation and modification of micro-services
  • Co-design of the architecture to match partner craftsman platforms to products in a client order and connecting these platforms to the main application via adapters, implementation of the direct craftsman mode
  • Design of new front-end components with React and use of Storybook
• Software craftsmanship: code review, Test-Driven Development (TDD), pair-programming (with developers, cloud engineers, QA, UI/UX...), mob-programming, CI/CD, mocks, ...
• Continuous improvement of development quality (Sonar tracking)
• Studies, development and testing: implementation of new features and bug fixes back-end and front-end on new screens
• Participation in event stormings to surface needs, domains, events, aggregates...
• Contribution to DevOps infrastructure notably through the DevOps guild: updating Helm charts, using Terraform, creating/modifying GitHub Actions pipelines...
• Reduction of technical debt notably during dedicated weeks allocated by streams to specific topics
• On-call support for approximately one week per month: You build it, you run it!
• Participation in the Leroy Merlin developer guild: feedback on using Quarkus to migrate a module initially developed in Spring Boot (21/02/2019)
• Remote and full remote organization (Discord, VS Code Live Share, Miro, Slack, Google Meet...) during part of the engagement

Tech stack: Java 11, Scala, Micro-services, Hexagonal architecture, Spring Boot, Quarkus, Kafka, Kafka Streams, Aiven, Elasticsearch, React, Formik, Storybook, Google Cloud Platform (Kubernetes Engine, Cloud SQL, ...), Google Data Studio, Docker, OpenShift, Kubernetes, Helm, Terraform, git, GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, Hibernate, Flyway, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, MongoDB Atlas, Cerberus, Datadog, Elasticsearch Logstash Kibana, Grafana

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Knowledge sharing:

🧑‍🏫 Training delivered:

• Java EE and Spring between April 2015 and September 2019 during two-week "Welcome" sessions (several times per year)
• Angular and AngularJS

👨‍🎓 Training received:

• IBM WebSphere Application Server v8.5.5 - Administration (5 full days - IB Formation)

🗣️ Talks given:

• Lunch-and-learn on Micronaut and Quarkus
• Lunch-and-learn on Kubernetes
• Lunch-and-learn on Vue.js
• Lunch-and-learn on JHipster
• Lunch-and-learn on after Java 8

🌍 Conference attendance:

• DevFest Lille 2017 and 2019
• JHipster Conf 2
• International Cybersecurity Forum at Lille Grand Palais (2 days in January 2018).
• Google Cloud Platform On-Board Workshop 2019 organized by Sfeir

🚀 Organization of internal technical challenges

Active member of the technical experts community:

🖥️ Ad-hoc technical contributions on various projects:

• Application configuration on IBM WebSphere Application Server
• Consultation on Spring Batch projects
• Application deployment and DevOps troubleshooting on Docker, Kubernetes, Jenkins Blue Ocean...
• Monitoring, profiling, supervision and memory/code optimization, memory leak resolution...
• Consultation on front-end Angular projects

🤝 Technical interview reviewer for candidates at various levels (interns, apprentices, juniors, seniors) in collaboration with HR.

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BNP Leasing Solutions - April 2018 to September 2019 (18 months)

Service center (Lille) - Partial remote

Multiple web applications

Context:

• Functional: Banking
• Business:
  • New version of the intranet supplier acquisition platform web application (PAF) (entirely new monolithic application + several 100% back-end applications for calling suppliers via different protocols)
  • New screens and operational maintenance (MCO) on the "Know Your Customer" (KYC) intranet web application (measuring sensitivity of financing files, process automation, risk study decision rendering...)
  • New intranet web application for compliance with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) (entered into force on May 25, 2018, tight deadlines) in the context of managing personal data access or removal requests
• Methodology: Agile (Scrum - 2 to 3-week sprints)
• Team: +/- 10 people

Achievements:

• Architecture and technical leadership:
  • Contributions to technical architecture documents (DAT)
  • Production of a document with proposals in the context of a continuous improvement audit: setting up CI/CD pipelines, memory leak prevention, migration to Java 11, migration from AngularJS to Angular, load testing setup (JMeter), ...
  • Design with design first approach (Swagger)
  • Technical analysis
  • Participation in architecture meetings and proposals on various topics of the pilot project (PAF v2) at the client's site (DevOps, Liquibase, ELK, OWASP...)
  • Participation in setting up application maintenance (TMA) during the tender process
• Software craftsmanship: code review, Test-Driven Development (TDD), pair-programming, CI/CD, mocks, ...
• Continuous improvement of development quality (Sonar tracking)
• Studies, development and testing: implementation of new features and bug fixes across multiple lots
• Impact study and implementation of JHipster to generate applications on Angular 7 and Spring Boot 2 after technical presentations to the client to validate this choice. Support to the client for launching a JHipster blueprint with parts specific to their IS (Web SSO SAML V2 authentication, log management, Oracle database, visual charter and theme)

Tech stack: Java 8, Java 11, JHipster, Angular, AngularJS, Spring Boot, Spring MVC, Spring Data JPA, Spring Batch, Spring JMS, ActiveMQ, TIBCO JMS, Hibernate, Hibernate Envers, Netflix Zuul, Oracle, Liquibase, IBM WebSphere Liberty Profile, UML, Merise, git, Jenkins

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Pacifica - February 2018 to March 2018 (2 months)

Service center (Lille), insurance branch of Crédit agricole

Web application for insurance

Context:

• Functional: Insurance
• Business: Implement new screens for an insurance management intranet web application
• Methodology: V-cycle
• Team: +/- 5 people

Achievements:

• Studies, development and testing: implementation of new features and bug fixes on new screens of the existing NewSesame project on financial contributions (payment incidents)
• 100% front-end role with links between steps and calls to the Spring Boot back-end mocked in JSON
• Software craftsmanship: code review, pair-programming, CI, mocks, ...
• Continuous improvement of development quality (Sonar tracking)

Tech stack: Angular, Spring Boot, Spring MVC, Jenkins

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Lantik BFA - December 2017 to January 2018 (2 months)

Service center (Lille)

Web application for a Spanish public sector portal

Context:

• Functional: Public sector
• Business: Digital transformation of the internal IS of the Foral Deputation of Biscay (province of the Basque Country: Spanish public sector)
• Methodology: V-cycle
• Team: +/- 10 people

Achievements:

• Architecture and technical leadership:
  • Setting up the client's technical environment and various projects within the Gfi Informatique Lille service center
  • Tracking, mentoring, training and assigning technical tasks to junior developers
• Software craftsmanship: code review, pair-programming, CI, mocks, ...
• Studies, development and testing: implementation of new features and bug fixes on multiple projects
• Knowledge transfer trip of 3 days to the Gfi Informatique Bilbao site in Spain to take over development tasks
• Daily communication in English and Spanish with the client and the Bilbao team

Tech stack: Java, JSF 2.1, EJB, JBoss, Jenkins

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Société générale - October 2017 to November 2017 (2 months)

Service center (Lille)

Remote Business Services (API)

Context:

• Functional: Banking
• Business: Modernize the back-end to federate callers and callees on the Société générale information system
• Methodology: V-cycle
• Team: +/- 5 people

Achievements:

• Architecture and technical leadership:
  • Creation of micro-services (API-fication of several existing services) with design first approach (Swagger)
  • Mentoring of junior developers (apprentices, interns and contractors)
  • Technical expertise for the project launch
• Software craftsmanship: code review, Test-Driven Development (TDD), pair-programming, CI, mocks, ...
• Continuous improvement of development quality (Sonar tracking)
• Studies, development and testing: implementation of new features and bug fixes
• 100% back-end REST APIs role
• Knowledge acquisition at project launch with a one-day trip with the full team to the Société Générale site in Fontenay-sous-Bois

Tech stack: Java 8, Jersey, Netflix Hystrix, JAX-RS, JAX-WS, Tanit, Comporsys, git, Jenkins

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Pacifica - July 2017 to September 2017 (3 months)

Service center (Lille), insurance branch of Crédit agricole

Web application for 2-wheel insurance

Context:

• Functional: Insurance
• Business: Implement the front-end for a new intranet web application for 2-wheel insurance management
• Methodology: V-cycle
• Team: +/- 5 people

Achievements:

• Studies, development and testing: implementation of new features and bug fixes on the redesign of part of the NewSesame project for two-wheel insurance (A2) (formula and options section)
• 100% front-end role with links between steps and calls to the Spring Boot back-end mocked in JSON
• Software craftsmanship: code review, pair-programming, CI, mocks, ...
• Analysis of existing AngularJS code on the four-wheel insurance section (A4) to guide Angular developments
• Continuous improvement of development quality (Sonar tracking)

Tech stack: Angular, AngularJS, Spring Boot, Spring MVC, Jenkins

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Crédit agricole - January 2016 to June 2017 (18 months)

Service center (Lille)

Web application for operational risk management

Context:

• Functional: Banking / Finance
• Business: Operational maintenance (MCO) and enhancements on the operational risk management intranet web application (project "CAROline") and other finance-sensitive projects
• Methodology: V-cycle
• Team: +/- 10 people

Achievements:

• Architecture and technical leadership:
  • Contributions to technical architecture documents (DAT)
  • Design workshops with the team and meetings with the client
  • Technical analyses with impact studies
  • Sharing of best practices
  • Writing of detailed technical specifications (DTS) (spanning multiple Java EE applications for subsidiaries and regional branch web apps)
  • Integration and onboarding of new developers (training and knowledge transfer)
• Software craftsmanship: code review, Test-Driven Development (TDD), pair-programming, CI, mocks, ...
• Continuous improvement of development quality (Sonar tracking)
• Taking on the application owner role and developer backup
• Studies, development and testing: implementation of new features and bug fixes across multiple lots
• Object model design
• Estimations, templates and quotes for future enhancements
• Root cause analysis of production incidents
• Analyses and fixes following security and quality audits
• Demos to numerous stakeholders
• Taking over a project under TMA (third-party application maintenance)
• MOE/MOA support for writing detailed functional specifications (DFS)
• Retro-documentation
• Monitoring of MOA and business acceptance testing with anomaly correction
• Modification of BIRT reports

Tech stack: Java (EE), JSF 1.2, JSF 2.0, RichFaces, Tomahawk, SOAP, JDBC Template, JBoss, WebSphere, IBM WebSphere Liberty Profile, DB2, MQ, Jenkins, Sonar, UML

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BNP Paribas - April 2015 to December 2015 (9 months)

Service center (Lille)

Multiple web applications

Context:

• Functional: Banking
• Business:
  Operational maintenance (MCO) and enhancements:
  • Web applications for "corporate" card management on the BNP Paribas corporate card website (internet and intranet)
  • RSDD, Subscription and RSDD CAFF web applications
  • Push notification server (servlet receiving requests from a mainframe) to various BNP Paribas mobile applications
  • Telephone voice server
• Methodology: V-cycle
• Teams: several of +/- 5 people (the part of the banking/finance/insurance service center dedicated to the client)

Achievements:

• Architecture and technical leadership:
  • Contributions to technical architecture documents (DAT)
  • Design workshops
  • Sharing of best practices
  • Writing of detailed technical specifications (DTS) via RSM for the RSDD offshore service center
• Software craftsmanship: code review, Test-Driven Development (TDD), pair-programming, CI, mocks, ...
• Continuous improvement of development quality (Sonar tracking)
• Studies, development and testing within the TMA (third-party application maintenance): anomaly correction, tracking of requests and incidents and implementation of enhancements
• Rewriting of a daily morning data control script
• Various interventions and deployments to qualification and production
• Implementation of enhancements on the TELRES TMA for the push notification server project (integration of a new application, reading notifications via CFT files, stabilization and performance improvement)
• Preparation and presentation of the reversibility of the push notification server project over 2 full days to a Romanian contractor in English
• Intervention on the TMA Canaux for the voice server project for anomaly correction and enhancements
• Participation in a BNP Paribas presentation on technical debt at Montreuil (93)

Tech stack: Java (EE), Struts, Tiles, WebSphere, DB2, bash, UML, Jenkins, SOAP

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👨‍🎓 Training received:

• Techno Maker (clean code): becoming polyglot, test pyramid, TDD (exercise solving the game of life), BDD, design patterns, DevOps, exception handling, fail fast, logs, monitoring, circuit breaker, load testing, using an IDE without mouse or keyboard, keyboard shortcuts, SOLID/YAGNI/KISS, ...
• Easy Maker (facilitator): training on soft-skills (public speaking, oral confidence, creativity, motivation, active listening, biases...)

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Décathlon - September 2013 to April 2015 (19 months)

On-site (Villeneuve d'Ascq)

Web applications for product selection for stores

Context:

• Functional: Sales
• Business: Structure product presentation for stores on intranet web applications (project "FIRST")
• Methodology: Agile (Scrum)
• Team: +/- 5 people

Achievements:

• Studies, development and testing within the TMA (third-party application maintenance): application stabilization, new features (migration and creation of services on the existing codebase) and anomaly correction
• Maintenance and technical evolution of the transaction management framework
• Studies, development and testing on a new project to manage a new concept in the product hierarchy
• Setting up the unit testing framework
• Development of code review scripts notably to detect bad development practices
• Integration into the support team as technical reference developer (impact analysis, proposal of technical solutions to resolve several anomalies, implementation of batches and stabilization of entire application sections)
• Software craftsmanship: code review, Test-Driven Development (TDD), pair-programming, CI, mocks, ...
• Continuous improvement of development quality (Sonar tracking)

Tech stack: Java, Struts, Salto, Tiles, GWT, H2, bash, Groovy, git, Jenkins

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CNSA - November 2012 to August 2013 (9 months)

Service center (Ennevelin)

Web application for pricing of medico-social institutions

Context:

• Functional: Healthcare (public sector)
• Business: Extranet web application HAPI for regional health agencies (ARS) to harmonize pricing processes (capacity and budget allocations to medico-social institutions) under the HPST law
• Methodology: V-cycle
• Team: +/- 5 people

Achievements:

• Studies, development and testing within the TMA (third-party application maintenance): enhancements and anomaly corrections
• Technical impact studies
• Integration/delivery of new developments
• Creation of T-SQL (SQL Server) procedures for various data operations
• Operation of various environments (UAT, qualification)
• Technical workshops with the client
• Trip to Paris at the Norsys Paris agency MOA team for 2 months: numerous workshops for technical enhancements and impact studies, technical link between the Parisian MOE team and the Lille MOE team (development)
• Software craftsmanship: code review, Test-Driven Development (TDD), pair-programming, CI, mocks, ...
• Continuous improvement of development quality (Sonar tracking)

Tech stack:Java (EE), Spring MVC, Hibernate, GNU/Linux, SQL Server, UML, svn, Jenkins

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3 Suisses - May 2012 to November 2012 (6 months)

On-site (Croix)

Web application for the 3 Suisses e-commerce site (checkout funnel)

Context:

• Functional: Sales / E-Commerce
• Business: Redesign of the checkout funnel for the 3 Suisses e-commerce site (B2C) in a highly competitive sector
• Methodology: Agile (Scrum / Kanban)
• Team: +/- 10 people

Achievements:

• Studies, development and testing of user stories and anomalies on each step of the funnel (cart, benefits, delivery, payment, summary)
• Implementation of multi-channel RESTful web APIs (web and mobile)
• Implementation of a fail-over switch for degraded access mode to certain services such as payment
• Implementation of a predicate-based rules engine
• Practice of Domain-Driven Design (DDD) for design (ubiquitous language, bounded contexts, layered architecture...)
• Deployment of features on the ESB
• Reverse engineering (analysis and extraction of business rules from the mail and telephone order management application on initialization lot 0)
• Software craftsmanship: code review, Test-Driven Development (TDD), Behavior-Driven Development (BDD), pair-programming, integration tests, CI/CD, mocks, pomodoro, anticipating technical debt, ...
• Continuous improvement of development quality (Sonar tracking)

Tech stack: Java (EE), Spring MVC, REST, SOAP, JDBC Template, Google Guava, Thymeleaf, UML, TDD, BDD, DDD, Tomcat, Weblogic, git, Jenkins

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3 Suisses - April 2011 to May 2012 (13 months)

Service center (Ennevelin), including 6 months of end-of-studies internship

Web applications for mail and telephone order management (VPT)

Context:

• Functional: Sales
• Business: Operational maintenance (MCO) of intranet web applications (project "FORCE") at end of life in a context where e-commerce is exploding
• Methodology: V-cycle
• Team: +/- 5 people

Achievements:

• Studies, development and testing within the TMA (third-party application maintenance): enhancements and anomaly corrections on "semi thick client" web applications
• Migration of a DB2 database to Oracle
• Software craftsmanship: code review, Test-Driven Development (TDD), pair-programming, CI, mocks, ...
• Continuous improvement of development quality (Sonar tracking)

Tech stack: Java (EE), Struts, Tiles, Salto, DB2, Oracle, Tomcat, Weblogic, svn, Jenkins

Graduated with a Master of Science in Computer Science (equivalent to a 5-year Master’s degree in Computer Science) from the École Supérieure d’Informatique in Lille. Wrote a dissertation linked to the final internship on the topic: “How can a developer improve software quality within a service centre?”

Obtained the “Mandriva Certified Administrator” certification and was a member of the Java Lab from 2008 to 2010 (individual and group projects, topic presentations).

71 weeks of internships in total (in partnership, work-study format, during the year and end-of-year internships):

• In 2009 (2 days per week from January to June then 15 weeks at year end) at Compario (Lille - Euratechnologies) now Sparkow, a software company offering a merchandising solution: development in .NET (C# and WPF) on a client site exporting French products to Japan, site optimisation, SEO, use of SQL Server and JavaScript (TreeMap, JQuery); creation of a reporting tool, anticipating user experience; implementation of RIA for product catalogues; Windows Server environment.
• In 2010 (2 days per week from March to June then 13 weeks at year end) at Odimat (Liévin), a web SEO agency: technical leading and development of new modules (web SEO, customer relationship management, finance, invoicing, web page optimisation, positioning…) in Python for OpenERP now Odoo, use of PostgreSQL and learning key concepts related to natural SEO; daily use and administration of GNU/Linux (system administration); practice of extreme programming.
• In 2011 (6 months end-of-studies) at Norsys (Ennevelin): see above (experience); development of an Android internal communication app for the company.

Group development of a timetable management tool in Ruby on Rails: Timetableasy (sources).

10-week internship in 2007 at Idea7 (Mérignies): Java EE development (Servlet API, JSP, JQuery) on the Canto Cumulus digital asset document management application.

Built a chess game (sources) in Java with Swing and sockets as the second-year free project.

Built a command-line interpreter (sources) in C as part of the systems programming course.

Built a sudoku solver in C++.

President of the student union of the Computer Science department at IUT de Lens from 2006 to 2007.

Mathematics specialization