Alexandre Garbe
Freelance Full Stack Developer
Freelancer
Open to opportunities
Lead Developer & Technical Manager
Speachme
January 2018
to August 2019
- Speachme is a startup providing a private MOOC platform and editing tools to its clients.
During my time at Speachme i had to rebuild the development team from the ground up and transition the product to a more modern frontend stack while working on its long term replacement. - Management of the product team (dev/ux/qa/ops)
- Promotion and deployment of agile practices (Scrum & Kanban)
- Incremental migration of the front end stack (Java server side rendering + jQuery) to a modern one (Vue.js, Typescript, Webpack, Jest, Nightwatch ...)
- Choice and deployment of a new application stack based on a modern frontend and microservices (React / Typescript / Next / Koa / Docker / GraphQL / Kubernetes ...)
- Deployment of a CI platform based on gitlab-ci, docker, ansible and nightwatch aiming at automate the build, unit testing, end to end testing and deployment of our application in a continuous delivery approach- Promotion of continuous delivery practices (Trunk based development, branches by abstractions, feature flipping ...)
- Management of the product team (dev/ux/qa/ops)
- Vue.js, Typescript, Webpack, Jest, Nightwatch, React, Typescript, Next, Koa, Docker, GraphQL, Kubernetes ...
Technical Expert at SQLI
SQLI
June 2015
to December 2017
- My mission was to foster Nantes SQLI service center growth (from 10 to 60+ people) by helping rectuiting new developers, train existing ones and provide technical support in general
- Provide help and support to several projects being developped in our delivery center (mostly JEE / Angular JS projects)
- Training of collaborators
- Production tools maintenance
- Software stacks validation and support.
- Audits and consulting at the customer's premises in France and abroad
- Recruitment and validation of technical profiles
- Provide help and support to several projects being developped in our delivery center (mostly JEE / Angular JS projects)
- Java, AngularJS, Git, Spring, REST, Docker, Openstack, Devops, Ansible, Jenkins Pipeline, Continuous delivery, Cucumber, Vagrant ...
Consultant at Ippon Technologies
Ippon Technologies
November 2011
to May 2015
- Ippon is an IT consulting firm with a focus on small, highly technical teams. During my time at Ippon i worked on many projects.
Here are some of the most relevant ones : - Technical expert for EDF ENBRIN
EDF needed a mobile application (android and IOS) in order to display its commercial brochures to its customers
- Backend development, exposing a REST API
- Ruby On Rails 4
- Application administration based on ActiveAdmin
- Authentification with devise
- Deployment with Capistrano
- Configuration and deployment for the various platforms ( staging and production hosted by ippon technologies ,integration platform hosted on heroku and Amazon S3)
Rails 4, Git, Capistrano, ActiveAdmin, heroku, Amazon S3, nginx , Phusion Passenger ... - Backend development, exposing a REST API
- Technical Architect for Thales
- Analysis and resolution of multiple performance issues for the "customer online" web application.
- Code splitting strategy definition for a big monolithic application
- Dead / unused code identification and removal
- Migration from a monolythic application to a set of OSGI Bundles
- ESB deployment (servicemix) in order to route service calls between an international platform and multiple local ones
Ant, Maven, Karaf, ServiceMix, Tattletale ... - Analysis and resolution of multiple performance issues for the "customer online" web application.
- Technical expert for Zebaz
Zebaz wanted a complete rewrite of one of its main application. The old application was written in java / struts with performances and usability issues
- Front end development in AngularJS- Backend development with DropWizard (exposing REST services)
- Elasticsearch repository to speadup data Elasticsearch
- Use of a blue / green deployment pattern to minimize downtimes
AngularJS, NodeJS, DropWizard, ElasticSearch, Git, Scrum - Front end development in AngularJS- Backend development with DropWizard (exposing REST services)
- Technical Architect for "La riviere"
La riviere needed an exit strategy from their current ERP (approaching end of life) and wanted to develop an in house solution in java
- Complete rewrite of the various modules from the ERP (invoice, contract, billing, clients ...)
- Integration to the existing infrastructure and information system (mostly via spring batch)
Java EE, tomcat 6,Debian, Maven 2, Spring (core, mvc ..) , Hibernate 4 , DB2400, activiti, jquery, gridster,leafletjs, json, Docubase, svn, git, jira, jenkins,piwik ... - Complete rewrite of the various modules from the ERP (invoice, contract, billing, clients ...)
- Trainer for Ippon technologies
- Main contributor for the Ippon technologies GIT training support materials.
- Main contributor for the Ippon technologies Mongo DB training support materials
- Multiple training experiences mostly on ESB and BPM products
- Main contributor for the Ippon technologies GIT training support materials.
Software Engineer at Accenture
Accenture
December 2013
to May 2011
- I was a software engineer for Accenture in the the french software delivery center of nantes for seven years. During that time i had differents roles from junior developer to software architect (including some project management experiences) .
The projects were mostly big software development and maintenance contracts for Accenture usual customers (transport and banking), based on the standard JEE stack at the time (spring, maven, EJB / SOAP)
A few relevant missions : - Back office architect for Crédit AgricoleDeployment of the "Livret A" subportal functionality for the Credit Agricole Portal
- Technical Environment: JEE web application based on Spring (Core/Batch/Webflow) running on JBoss 5 and talking to a .NET backoffice vith CXF SOAP calls
- Prototyping, documentation and deployment of the project technical architecture
- Development environment setup, using maven (build, unit tests, packaging), selenium (end to end tests) and synapse(webservices mocks)
- Development of mission critical components (Client SSO framework integration, encryption ...)
- Dev team management
- Technical Environment: JEE web application based on Spring (Core/Batch/Webflow) running on JBoss 5 and talking to a .NET backoffice vith CXF SOAP calls
- Technical architect for EDF-GDF
Maintenance and update of several critical applications using SOA
- Definition and maintenance of the technical architecture (Multiple clusters of JEE Application servers and ESB on several physical sites)
- Definition and maintenance of the application architecture (custom application frameworks, tooling, source control , CI ...)
-Production incidents monitoring and resolution
- Management of 4 junior software architects
- Definition and maintenance of the technical architecture (Multiple clusters of JEE Application servers and ESB on several physical sites)
- Software developer for SNCF.
Developer on the "Alliance" initiative, a vast portfolio of interlinked software projects.
Mostly Java / spring / maven development in an SOA context
Maîtrise IUP MIAGe de Nantes
Since 2003
Baccalauréat scientifique
Since 1999
- React Next, Typescript, Redux, Saga, Vue, Vuex, React Native, NightWatch, Webpack, Babel, Node.js, Express, Koa, Jest ...
- Swing, EJB,JMS, Struts, Spring (core, jdbc, mvc, webflow, security, batch) , Hibernate, Jaxb, Jax-WS, Jax-RS, Xmlbeans, POI, Axis, CXF, Maven, Weblogic server, Tomcat , Jboss 5, Jetty, ALSB 2.5, Hudson, Sonar, Thrift, Android,Vaadin, Mule ESB, Synapse, Activiti, ServiceMix ...
- Ruby, Python, C
- Docker, Kubernetes, Chef, Puppet,CVS, SVN, Git, Clearcase, RTC Ansible,Vagrant, AWS, Google Cloud Platform,Jenkins, Gitlab-CI, Drone, REST, Graphql ...
