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About me

I am an experienced backend developer with strong people skills. I value both team work and code quality, and I can't imagine one without the other. People usually describe me as a very serious, reliable professional and an ever cheerful, positive-minded person. I feel most driven when the product has a meaningful impact on people's lives.

I like things organized and I thrive in structured environments, even when it is me doing the organizing. My favourite color is Jira and my spirit animal is time-boxed meetings. I enjoy working in pairs, working alone, and knowledge-sharing sessions with the team. I am comfortable working from home but would be glad to go on-site in Nantes, France, where I'm based.

In my free time, I enjoy tinkering with this website, painting, drinking coffee, and playing adventure and puzzle video games.

Best suited for

1 - Technical roles with a complex product

I'm a fast learner and I like digging through legacy code.

2 - Engineering management roles

I'm a people person. I enjoy mentoring and keeping meetings short and effective.

3 - Product roles with a strong technical side

I’m a rational, structured thinker who enjoys modeling problems.

⚙️ Obvious skills

The technical skills you'd expect from a dev with 10y experience

💎 Niche skills

Specialized technical expertise (Spanish Inquisition)

🗺️ Product Domains

Areas of product experience and domain knowledge

🌱 Currently learning

Things I’m actively exploring and developing

Work experience

Yseop

Natural Language Generation company specialized in Life Sciences, 90% remote position

10.2024 - 07.2026

Product Tech Lead

Over the course of 18+ months, I managed two teams composed of 2 to 5 junior to senior developers, led performance reviews, gave feedbacks in French and English, facilitated many meetings, and contributed to product design decisions about ontology and rule-based NLG features. I relentlessly advocated for automation, Domain Driven Design and good development practices.

Q1: joined an existing team of 8 as a senior developer. Developed NLG code snippets to write about Time-To-Event CSR data, and designed a new snippet framework to reduce tech debt and make them more structured and scalable, using linguistics and text generation domain concepts to create a modular pipeline.

Q2: promoted to tech lead of a new team, paired with a new Product Manager; developed new snippets for the PK/PD sections of the CSR, using the new snippet framework. Built dashboards to follow teamwork and testing day-to-day. Closely supervised QA requirements.

Q3: joined a task force to create dozens of snippets in a few weeks by leveraging AI adoption and the new snippet framework.

Q4: worked on team building to restore team morale. Joined a new task force to rewrite existing snippets, focusing on making the comparison of data completely generic across snippets.

Q5 & Q6: became the tech lead of a new team whose purpose was to develop, from scratch, a Quality Assessment tool to test LLM features across the product, to maintain and test new LLM features, and to make snippets development even more scalable.

Doubletrade - Intescia Group

European Public Tenders SaaS company, 100% remote position

07.2021 - 09.2024

Backend Software Engineer

I joined a 10+ people team of all senior, full remote software engineers practicing a kind of in-house scrumban; adopted strong Domain Driven Design habits in weekly product architecture workshops; maintained the 80+ microservices, created new microservices; worked on the Microsoft 365 integration; improved the xls and xlsx parsing features; was part of the weekly rotation to track bugs daily in production; facilitated agile ceremonies with 30+ attendees. Probably the best work environment I've seen so far.

Capgemini

IT Services

01.2020 - 06.2021

Software Engineer

This role was my first time working in French. I joined a 200-people project with 18 years of legacy code; maintained undocumented data pipelines with JMS, SQL scripts and stored procedures; successfully navigated complex PR reviews with dozens of feature toggles and testing environments; worked with sensitive information (personal data and payment data); started remote work during the pandemic.

02.2018 - 12.2019

Software Engineer

As part of the Atlassian Factory team, I developed and maintained plugins for Jira Software and Confluence; configured and administered Jira instances; audited instances for Capgemini clients; obtained an Atlassian certification: Agile development with Jira Software; was the scrum master for 6 months, and then became the acting tech lead, mentored junior developers and career-changing colleagues to facilitate their integration; attended the '19 Atlassian Tour in Las Vegas.

Yseop

Natural Language Generation company

03.2016 - 08.2017

Research Associate at INSA de Lyon

As a computer science PhD student, I occupied my time with literature review, data preprocessing, presentations, and investigating data mining algorithms; I also developed a Knime node to explore conversation data. I decided to leave the program, in order to work on more practical subjects where I could see real-world impact.

07.2015 - 02.2016

Junior R&D Engineer

I worked on an Yseop knowledge base to model generic Business Intelligence key concepts; in a team of 3, we modeled semantic content to generate graph captions in QlikView, such as bar charts or time series; I developed tests and test data to ensure generated sentences were correct.

01.2015 - 06.2015

R&D Intern (Linguist)

My internship was supervised by R. Salmon during his PhD; I transformed the X-TAG lexicalized tree-adjoining English grammar into a metagrammar tailored to the Yseop text generation engine, using the XMG compiler.

Education

Computational Linguistics, Master's degree

09.2013 - 06.2015

Université Paris Cité

Master 2 Professionel de Linguistique Informatique magna cum laude

Linguistics, Bachelor's degree

09.2010 - 06.2013

Université Sorbonne Nouvelle

Licence de Sciences du Langage magna cum laude

A-Levels in French

06.2010

Lycée Louis-le-Grand

Baccalauréat Général Scientifique magna cum laude