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Hello! My name is Gabriel Pillet and I've been coding for 12 years in diverse environments (web agencies, startups and freelancing). I love finding the easiest way to solve the most complex problems!

I'm looking for my next big challenge in backend web development and will be available starting september 2019. I am located in Lyon (France) but I'm used to working full remote and I love it!

Have a look at my GitHub profile!

Very pedagogue and competent, Gabriel always tried to answer even the most twisted of our questions. He always found a solution to our problems.

— Julien S.
Computer Science Student

His pragmatism and method have guided us to the right technological choices. We were then able to continue to make the application evolve with a stable and solid foundation.

— Stéphane H.
CTO, PHP Expert

Gabriel never refuses to help his teammates, unite the team and bring it to the top. He always gives good advice and loves to learn new things and improve himself. It was a pleasure to work with him.

— Guillaume S.
Mobile Developer

I ship high quality projects

Pragmatism

Sometimes the solution to solve a problem is not state of the art programming, but a more straightforward solution.

Quality Addict

I focus on the entire quality spectrum to deliver bug free applications and I believe that there is always room for improvement!

Project Manager

I know the tools and best practices of project management that makes both the clients and the team happy.

I write tailored code

Backend Dev.

I have been coding with PHP frameworks from Symfony 1 to 4 for tailor-made business applications. I'm open to work with any other backend language.

Data Lover

I love working with huge datasets and Data Science is the area of expertise that I want to learn the most.

Optimizer

Optimizing a web page that loads in 30 seconds and makes 2'567 SQL queries to running in 2 seconds is very gratifying.

I help the team

Pedagogy

Teaching to students and junior developers made me learn about patience, empathy and how to explain complex notions simply.

Kindness

Kind words means a lot and I try to always bring the best side of things. I also know when it's better to listen than to talk.

I speak RegEx

Everybody needs someone that speaks fluent RegEx in their team, as they say : /^bb|[^b]{2}$/, that is the question.

See my resume! (in French)

THE Dream Job

In my opinion the project of the company is the most important matter: it should be something that is meaningful and aiming to make the world a better place (even just a little bit!). I probably won't work for you if you manufacture weapons of mass destruction, just saying.

Technical challenge is also something that drives me. Whether it is a complex business related code or getting the most out of elaborate data metrics: this is where I feel most at ease. Quality is essential to me, and every means (tools, good practices and processes) should be employed to achieve the best quality available.

The dream company should, of course, care about their people's well beings, providing a healthy and positive culture in which everyone can flourish. I know sometimes it's easier said than done but I would be happy to help you achieve this goal!

Portfolio

Profesionnal Projects

BetaSeries Insights

BetaSeries Insights is one of my proudest achievments. The goal of the website is to provide data analysis of the consumption of TV series to media profesionals.

With over a million members and 200'000 episodes watched per day, it was a real challenge to find the right solution to be able to make real time analytics (statistics on a specific show, audience, trendings…). We decided to use Neo4j, a graph database that fits the deep relational model of BetaSeries.

BetaSeries Insights is a solo project, I've done everything from the data exports/imports to the frontend of the B2B website.

URL	https://insights.betaseries.com
During	2017 / 2018
Role	Backend Developer, DBA, Product Owner
Language	PHP7, SQL, Neo4j
Frameworks	Symfony 4
Third Parties	Behat, phpspec, redis, Codeship, Vagrant, ansible

Medical Imaging search engine

This challenging project was for a confidential healthcare company, the goal of the application is to provide a search engine for Medical Imaging (for example MRI) in order to classify and find the best images.

The complexity of this projects lies in the segmentation of the information that can be split on several distant servers and must be retrieved and computed locally. I have worked with the DICOM specification and the open source server Orthanc. I had the chance to start the project from scratch and preconize the architecture of the project, using the Symfony framework and the Worklow and Messenger components.

During	2018, five months contract
Role	Backend Developer, Architect
Language	PHP7, SQL
Frameworks	Symfony 4
Third Parties	Behat, phpspec, Elasticsearch, Orthanc, Vagrant, ansible

SAAS for Temporary Workers

This confidential project was for a temporary workers agency, the goal of the application is to handle real time contract creation and to monitor the workers availabilities.

My role was to improve the architecture of the project (legacy code on the Laravel framework), to optimize performances and to add new features to the website.

During	2019, three months contract
Role	Backend Developer
Language	PHP7, SQL
Frameworks	Laravel
Third Parties	Behat, phpspec, MySQL, blackfire, gitlab-ci

BetaSeries

For 10 years of existence, BetaSeries has become your best ally for TV shows: manage your calendar, share your latest episodes watched and discover new shows – within a one million member community.

I've worked for three years as a Lead Backend Developer at Netcats on various projects, including BetaSeries. My job was to lead a junior team (Backend, Frontend and Mobile), to improve the project management processes (agility, continuous integration, review apps) and also to code on the project.

BetaSeries is a 10 years old legacy PHP project (no framework) and I was in charge of architecturing a new version using Symfony that coexists with the legacy code base, to improve the REST API, to make several performance optimizations and to add integration tests.

URL	https://betaseries.com
During	2016 / 2018
Role	Backend Developer, Project Manager
Language	PHP7, SQL
Frameworks	Legacy, Symfony 3
Third Parties	Behat, phpspec, redis, MySQL, Sentry, Mailjet, Thumbor, Codeship, Vagrant, ansible

Diwi

Diwi was a dating application and was my first project when I joined Netcats. Due to the very competitve market on dating apps the project has been dropped three years later.

I was in charge of the project management, backend development (REST API, moderation backend) and I also helped making the Android application in react-native.

During	2016 / 2017
Role	Backend Developer, Project Manager
Language	PHP7, SQL, JavaScript
Frameworks	Symfony 3, react-native
Third Parties	web sockets, Behat, phpspec, redis, MySQL, Sentry, Mailjet, Codeship

Teacher at YNOV

Conferences and talks

Alice & Bob

MySQL to Neo4j Import

Neo4j in 15 minutes

Pragmatism Driven Dev.

Metabase with kittens

Hobby code

Phat Fishes

Phat Fishes is the anagram of Shapeshift which is the theme of the 35th edition of the Ludum Dare. The Ludum Dare is a Game Jam: a special event where you have to code a game from scratch in a time limit and under specific conditions.

I've participated in several game jams but Phat Fishes is my proudest achievement because I made the game all by myself in under 72 hours! That means code, graphics, UI, FX and music too!

It is just a silly arena game where up to 4 players compete to be latest fish alive, the fish is a Tetraodontidae that can inflate to push other fishes into the ocean's hazards.

You can play it online directly in you browser on the itch.io page!

Play URL	Play it on itch.io
Github URL	https://github.com/tentacode/PhatFishes
Made in	summer 2016 in 72 hours
Framework	Unity3D
Language	C#
Softwares	Aseprite, GarageBand

S + G

Probably the most crazy and time consuming idea I had is to make an augmented reality birth announcement card.

I made it with Unity3D and the vuforia plugin, each 4 parts of the card turns into a little 3D scene when you hover it with your phone with the mobile app (Android and iPhone).

Made in	summer 2018
Framework	Unity3D
Language	C#
Softwares	Vuforia plugin, Aseprite, Photoshop

Augmented reality birth announcement card

jevendsdestrucs

jevendsdestrucs (Imsellingstuff) is a little helper I made to automatically publish offers on multiple websites (Leboncoin and Audiofanzine at first, but more providers could be added).

The offers are written in yaml and a crawler logs in to the providers and fills the form to add the offer.

Github URL	https://github.com/tentacode/jevendsdestrucs
Framework	Symfony
Language	PHP 7
Third party	Silly, php-di, Symfony Components and Mink

Hire Me!

Bonjour

I ship high quality projects

Pragmatism

Quality Addict

Project Manager

I write tailored code

Backend Dev.

Data Lover

Optimizer

I help the team

Pedagogy

Kindness

I speak RegEx

THE Dream Job

Portfolio

Profesionnal Projects

BetaSeries Insights

Medical Imaging search engine

SAAS for Temporary Workers

BetaSeries

Diwi

Teacher at YNOV

Conferences and talks

Alice & Bob

MySQL to Neo4j Import

Neo4j in 15 minutes

Pragmatism Driven Dev.

Metabase with kittens

Hobby code

Phat Fishes

S + G

jevendsdestrucs

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Dependency injection with Behat (and PHP-DI)

Metabase with kittens

Five Game Jams

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