Hi! I'm Olivier đ Welcome to my blog. I write about what I do as Staff Engineer. I also write about my open-source projects and software development in general. I enjoy a bit of singing, in a choir or a karaoke bar, but I don't write about that. I'm originally from Toulouse in France, but I've been living in Berlin since 2014. Still dressing in colors though.
I'm usually appreciated for my support, ownership, autonomy, drive for excellence, communication skills, and expertise in creating or improving system designs. I thrive working on multi-team, cross-functional projects. I led all of them with success.
Human languages: French (native), English (fluent), German (A2.1), Spanish (notions)
Data stores: MySQL, Postgres, SQL server, MongoDB, Redis
Infrastructure: Kubernetes, Ambassador, AWS
System Design: PlantUML, OpenAPI, AsyncAPI
Experience
Wayfairă»Staff Engineer | ă»Berlin
My team owned the carrier networks. We created an application that was ingesting data from many carriers to provide a standardized interface to our internal services. The data would include stations, lanes, operating times, and ancillary entities.
Led a multi-team initiative to expand our last-mile network into an end-to-end network that included suppliers and middle-mile data, to improve cost calculation and delivery time estimates.
Led an initiative that reduced database usage by 75%.
Led six interactive sessions about software design and testing practices that led to improvements to the code base and a significant shift in developers' approach to testing.
Contributed to creating a tool that empowered stakeholders to manage facility closures without the help of developers.
Overhauled the daily work of my team to improve deliveries with better ceremonies, better use of epics, and shorter tickets.
Led three Event Storming sessions to capture the supply chain domains.
Participated in the hiring process: SQL, system design
HelloFreshă»Staff Engineer | ă» Berlin
Rocket Internet sent me to HelloFresh for six months to support their rapid growth before they hired me. Within six years, I grew up from Senior Engineer to Chapter Lead, then Staff Engineer.
Mentored five engineers to get started with Go, for three months each.
Made over thirty presentations to improve the skills of the developers in my chapter.
Extracted services from the API monolith for recipes and menus.
Appointed as the owner of the API monolith. Introduced better practices and did a lot of upgrades to reduce the burden of working with the code base.
Enabled HelloFresh to open in Belgium with content in French and Dutch with minimal effort by creating a system that allowed entities to have multiple languages.
Participated in the hiring process: technical screening
Rocket Internetă»Senior Software Engineer | ă» Berlin
Backend development. I joined a team mid-project and helped deliver Vendito, a rival to OLX and Gumtree.
Backend development. Modernization of the in-house CMS (Isens Evolution). Punctual trainer in French and English on the in-house CMS. Some references: Agronutrition, APEM, CCI AriĂšge, Lingari, and Sylob.
Freelanceă»Developer and Designer | ă» Toulouse
Design and Fullstack development. Some references: chilia.fr, cinqcinq.com, leventre.com, and sideralsante.fr.
Other experiences
Video editor. Short movies party organizer. Queer party organizer / DJ. Gave up on my bachelor in Psychology to become a developer.
Open-source contributions
Here are a few highlights of my open-source contributions. More on GitHub.