I’m really excited to be part of the founding team at Xata! A lot of challenges to solve, including:

• SDK generation
• Spreadsheet-like UI
• Data-visualization
• and many others…

As I’m writing this, the product doesn’t exist yet, but considering the team and the amount of cool ideas I've seen, I can’t wait to see the result! 😁

An amazing team and an ambitious product, I've been working with Contiamo since 2018 and was part of the product-shaping since the beginning of a strategic change of the company.

We started by providing a solution helping datascientist to manage their jupyter notebooks: collaboration & easy deployment of function as service.

This solution was combined with a query engine, capable of querying any kind of databases with only one flavor of SQL.

Now, after a bit of refinement, our product is focused on cataloging, giving access and querying large data landscapes.

With this in mind, as a Frontend engineer, I had a LOT of fun challenges:

• Building an entire SQL editor (based on Monaco editor)
• Parsing/manipulating SQL to provide some nice helpers (rhombic)
• Streamlining the backend/frontend communication by generating Typescript components from OpenAPI specifications (restful-react)
• Building some client projects on top of our product with graphql as datalayer
• Crafting a nice solution to manage our runtime configuration (react-runtime-config)
• Going deeper on accessibility
• Playing with k8s to have local/hosted pull-request previews

This was only possible thanks to my amazing teammates, always there to challenge the smallest edge case! Our favorite game is to slow the network, click everywhere, kill the network sometime, and see if everything still looks good! 😅 No better way to improve the robustness of your application!

Fun fact, this stack is almost fully REST, and the tooling of OpenAPI was really poor, but not anymore! A bit frustrated with the tooling available, I took this opportunity to create something very cool. Now, we have full autocompletion of our backend endpoints in VSCode, and can even use the frontend codebase as regression test for the backend 😁.

Active participation in the Gatsby community : development, code review, tests and support.

When I decided to build this website, I knew I wanted to:

• code in React
• not have to deal with a server
• be SEO-friendly (this is where it got hard)

With these requirements in mind, I searched for the best solution, and this is how I discovered Gatsby (as a pre-alpha version) and I decided to take part!

My main interventions were:

• enabling Gatsby to run on Windows
• enabling the use of TypeScript
• finding and correcting bugs
• collaborating with other developers on Discord
• Participating in technical choices (including the file architecture)
• reviewing and validating pull requests

After all this, I was finally able to start building my own website using the perfect tools.

Development of a solution to generate haptic effects.

This was a quick project for a client's POC, the aim was to create an application to generate and sequence haptic effects, then export the result.

The biggest challenges were the speed of the project and the necessity to handle a great volume of data. Therefore, we decided to use a 100% web solution with a CSV export, in spite of the risk of browser latency.

In the end, the product works and the client's requirements were fulfilled!

I also used this first mission for Actronika as an opportunity to train the team in React/Redux/TypeScript/Jest, so as to allow an easy hand-over.

Conception and development of the entire Speekoo application

Speekoo is a language learning application. Its advantage lies in its method, based on the language's structure instead of learning by heart responses for specific scenarios.

My responsibilities and projects included:

• The web application using angular 2.
• The mobile iOS and Android applications, using ionic 2 to share code with the web application.
• The general architecture, including the firebase database.
• A standard administration interface to enable importing lessons from an excel file and modify the online content in real time.
• Implementation of the project organisation (Team services, Kanban).

Télécom EM - Specializing in Engineering Information Systems

Studying management?! Indeed, during my studies I chose to dive deeper into business subjects differing from my passion: programming.

As a matter of fact, I've been developing since I was 11 years old, and I've always been self-educated. Having a desire to learn, I decided to pursue studies in the management/commerce fields. However, I chose a business school sharing a campus with an IT college, and I chose a specialty that is common to both schools: Engineering Information Systems.

I do not regret this choice, which allows me to apprehend projects with a greater open-mindedness. :)

During that period, I also took intensely part in the club life of the campus: I became vice-president of the Arts Office, President of the makers' club and member of the robotics club.