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

• senior software engineer
• backend software engineer

2 - Engineering management roles

• engineering manager
• scrum master

3 - Product roles with a strong technical side

• technical product manager
• technical product owner

Obvious skills

• Java, Object Oriented Programming
• Version Control, CI/CD Tools
• Relational Databases
• API Design
• System Design & Architecture
• System Thinking
• Fluent in French & English
• User-Centric Technical Design
• Technical Debt Management
• Mentoring, Code Review
• Technical Writing & Documentation
• Project Management

Niche skills

• Domain Driven Design & Microservices
• Rule-Based Systems
• Natural Language Generation
• LLM Output Quality Evaluation
• Cross-functional Discovery
• Technical Presentation

Currently learning

• Functional Programming
• Day-to-Day AI usage
• Continuous Product Discovery

Work experience

Yseop

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

10.2024 - 07.2026

Product Tech Lead

• 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: 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.
• Over 1.5 year, I managed multiple teams composed of 2 to 5 junior to senior developers, led performance reviews, gave feedbacks in French and English, 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.
• Java, GitHub, Docker, Jira, Confluence.

Doubletrade - Intescia Group

European Public Tenders SaaS company, 100% remote position

07.2021 - 09.2024

Backend Software Engineer

Capgemini

IT Services

01.2020 - 06.2021

Software Engineer

02.2018 - 12.2019

Software Engineer

• member of the Atlassian Factory team
• 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
• scrum mastering (6 months), reporting, planning, organizing
• 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

• literature review, data preprocessing, presentations, attended conferences
• developed a Knime node to explore conversation data
• Java, Python, R, LaTeX

07.2015 - 02.2016

Junior R&D Engineer

• worked on an Yseop knowledge base to model generic Business Intelligence key concepts
• modeled semantic content to generate graph captions in QlikView, such as bar charts or time series
• developed tests and test data to ensure generated sentences were correct
• Yseop in-house language, Git, Shell

01.2015 - 06.2015

R&D Intern (Linguist)

• transformed the X-TAG lexicalized tree-adjoining English grammar into a metagrammar tailored to the Yseop text generation engine, using the XMG compiler.
• XMG, XMG 2.0, Java, Perl, Python, Git, Shell

Accor

Paris Bastille Opera Ibis (3-star) Hotel

06.2013 - 03.2014

Hotel Receptionist (Student job)

I worked the evening shifts (7pm-11pm or 8pm-12am) 4 to 7 days a week, while studying for my Master's degree. I processed check-ins and check-outs, assigned rooms, handled guest payments, and resolved complaints. I also coordinated with other hotels to help guests when the hotel was fully booked. I got to practice welcoming guests in French, English, Dutch, Russian and Spanish.

Paris Brain Institute

Donations and Communications Department

06.2012 - 09.2012

Data Entry Clerk (Student job)

My job was to collect incoming mail donations every day, and to input, update and verify donator information in the donations database. I would then print and sort each donation receipt. It was a full-time 9-to-5 summer job.

Education

Computational Linguistics, Master's degree

09.2013 - 06.2015

Université Paris Cité

Master 2 Professionel de Linguistique Informatique magna cum laude

• Natural Language Generation
• Natural Language Understanding
• Automated Translation
• Formal Grammars
• Formal Semantics
• Ontologies
• Programming (Java, OCaml)

Linguistics, Bachelor's degree

09.2010 - 06.2013

Université Sorbonne Nouvelle

Licence de Sciences du Langage magna cum laude

• Natural Language Processing
• Finnish studies
• Syntax
• Semantics
• Phonology
• Sociolinguistics
• First-language Acquisition
• Programming (Python, Perl)

A-Levels in French

06.2010

Lycée Louis-le-Grand

Baccalauréat Général Scientifique magna cum laude

• Mathematics
• English, Russian, Dutch