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Hi, I'm Arnaud, an experienced web developer

Who am I? I'm a super curious and passionate 39 yo based in Alsace (France) but I am used to work remotely.

If I'd need to label myself it would be backend as my main interests are PHP, databases, devops, monitoring, serverless, etc. I also enjoy taking care of the users, and I am really concerned about designing UX that don't suck totally.

Sharing knowledge is important to me. I attend meetups on a regular basis to keep on learning and meet great people. And even sometimes give talks.

I like to share my knowledge in blog posts, update outdated documentations and humbly contribute to open source projects.

On my free time, you'll find me reading books, riding my bike, cooking or relaxing at some sauna.

Feel free to write me an email.

More from me:
  • A cheatsheet for PHP frequently encountered in modern projects
  • elsass.dev (fr), where I publish short interviews with developers living in my area
  • A collaborative list of website analytics that don't use cookie, don't require consent and focus on privacy
  • Some technical writings mostly about laravel hosted on medium
  • My github profile
  • A pretty inactive account on linkedin
  • Some logo designs and UI ideas I made, hosted on dribbble
  • Also you can find me on twitter where I share more personal stuff

Today

From August 2018

I joined Philippe and Antoine at Code16, a small, friendly and very professional studio that crafts modern apps using laravel, vue and lots of great tools (aws, gh-actions, stripe, sentry, etc). It's fun!

Strasbourg

Avril > July 2018

Freelancing as a web developer. I also started a new personal project: Pas mon genre (an humble newsletter about gender gap written in french).

September 2017 > March 2018 (6 months)

Helped the team at sdv working on some proprietary CMS dedicated to french press editors with a pretty modern stack (docker, mongo, redis, angular4, etc).

Strasbourg

September 2016 > August 2017 (~1 year)

Moved out from Paris to the countryside in the East of France. Took on freelance jobs and built personnal projects.

2016

September 2014 > August 2016 (~2 years)

Became a professional web developer from super talented people at matters.tech. I felt really excited to learn angular, and use modern tooling for everything (gitlab, ci, ansible, npm, webpack, solid rest APIs, etc). I worked on many projects from being the lead, to adding interesting features like A/B testing to wisepops or fitting into a huge team of fifty devs improving core features and testing microservices at ubeeqo. I most importantly learnt how to manage projects efficiently.

Paris

2014

September 2009 > June 2014 (~5 years)

Consultant for sncf (french railway company) as a Business Intelligence expert. I had a really great time building high volume datawarehouses, disecting expensive database replication systems and tuning ETL process. At some point I got totally tired of ugly corporate built-in reporting interface and felt the need to learn the basics of web development while implementing handmade dashboards

Paris

2009

April 2007 > June 2009 (~2 years)

Made my debut as a junior analyst. I wrote complex financial ETL scripts the old way with lots of shell and fixed horrible reports in java. I hopefully learnt the basics of working with a team and how databases like oracle work under the hood.

Paris

2007

Graduated from unistra in computer science