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- Greenfield: Built and scaled the new Django and React based multitenant platform,
where each client has their own high-volume Postgres and ClickHouse databases.
- Brownfield: Enhanced the business' legacy systems, based on Django and Vue.js.
- Established type safety standards by introducing comprehensive type hinting across
Python codebases and mentoring the team on best practices.
Python
Django
Django REST Framework
Postgres
ClickHouse
TypeScript
React
Vue.js
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2023 - 2024:
Senior developer for the Web agency
Torchbox.
- Greenfield: Led fullstack architecture for a greenfield Wagtail/Django platform,
defining content models and system structure to ensure long-term maintainability
under tight deadlines.
- Brownfield: Took ownership of a large legacy Node.js + Elasticsearch system and
led its progressive migration to TypeScript to improve type safety and refactor confidence..
- Established pragmatic design and review standards favoring simplicity over unnecessary abstraction.
Python
Django
Wagtail
HTMX
Postgres
Node.js
Elasticsearch
TypeScript
React
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- Brownfield: Built fullstack features for this Django and React backend serving 3 million users
and handling approximately 600 requests/second at peak time.
- Championed type safety by introducing type hints to the Python codebase and establishing
team coding standards.
Python
Django
Django REST Framework
MySQL
TypeScript
React
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- Greenfield: Architected and delivered the initial Django + React + GraphQL platform
for an IoT solar fleet management system, scaling from pilot to production.
- Greenfield: Designed API structure and data models to support real-time ingestion
and historical analytics workloads.
- Greenfield: Proactively migrated historical data storage from Postgres to TimescaleDB
to support growing real-time analytical workloads as the platform scaled.
- Led a team of 4 engineers, enforcing coding standards and a simplicity-first
architecture to minimize long-term maintenance cost.
Python
Django
TypeScript
React
GraphQL
Postgres
TimescaleDB
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- Brownfield: Led a team of 4 PHP developers to maintain the existing user-facing APIs and website.
- Greenfield: Led the development of a new website based on a modernized data layer architecture.
PHP
Symfony
RabbitMQ
Postgres
SOAP
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2014 - 2016:
Symfony / JavaScript consultant for the Web agency
KNP Labs.
- Greenfield: Led a team of 3 developers to build the Collector Square website and CMS,
based on Symfony with Elasticsearch and Redis as data projection layers.
- Greenfield: Led a team of 5 developers to refactor the Balinea platform, including
the public website, middle-office, back-end, and public/private APIs.
PHP
Symfony
JavaScript
Elasticsearch
Redis
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2008 - 2014:
PHP / JavaScript / Ruby / Flash freelance developer,
working with companies such as
Le Monde,
Mappy,
Uzik...
- Brownfield: Worked on LeMonde.fr, one of France's main news websites
- Greenfield: Built a mass mailing Ruby on Rails web application for TV France International
- Greenfield: Led JavaScript development for the Mappy mobile site
PHP
Symfony
JavaScript
Node.js
Backbone.js
Ruby
Ruby on Rails