Résumé

Building and connecting software since 2013: websites, APIs, micro-services, servers, and the integrations between them, first from Bangkok, now from Bordeaux. Best known for carrier and marketplace work on PrestaShop and Shopify. Salaried at Cdiscount, freelance on my own time.

BKK · 2013 BOD · today

Experience

2021 — now · Bordeaux, France CURRENT

Lead developer at Cdiscount

Four teams in five years, all of them somewhere behind customer support: the tools agents work in, the account area customers work in, and the money that goes back when an order goes wrong. That last one is where I am now.

Pega eCare

A support platform for the merchants Octopia hosts, built in Pega's no-code environment on top of Java APIs. Features on both sides, and the version upgrades nobody volunteers for: Pega through Ansible, the Java APIs from 8 to 11.

SelfCare

The Cdiscount customer account area. Decommissioning Pega while keeping its Java APIs alive, writing the .NET ones for the replacement, and building the processes agents follow in Mayday.

Call Center

Split out of SelfCare to own customer cases and incidents. New micro-services and new features on the existing ones, Vault for secrets, a proof of concept on classifying conversations with AI, and the disaster recovery procedures.

Remboursements

Refunds and goodwill gestures. Java micro-services migrated to .NET, Quartz jobs to Kubernetes, and marketplace sellers' invoices pulled in so customers can actually get them. Traces and metrics, so we hear about a problem before support does.

WORKED WITH

.NET
C#
Java
Spring Boot
MS SQL Server
Kubernetes
Vault
Ansible
Jira
Grafana
OpenTelemetry

2020 — now · Bordeaux, France CURRENT

Freelance developer at Kosmonaft.dev

Freelance work of my own, alongside the day job, at a deliberately small scale: one site, one API, one server, one thing that stopped working.

My own modules

Mondial Relay Max, Colissimo Max and Back Market for PrestaShop. A Shopify app for Mondial Relay Max is in progress.

Merchant work

Modules built for a single shop, bug fixes and server maintenance on modules other people wrote, much of it through Fiverr.

Common-Services and Feed.biz

Consulting on the modules and apps I used to own: migrating them onto current technology, security audits and compliance, paying down technical debt, cutting the hosting bill, and automating the deployments.

WORKED WITH

PHP
PrestaShop
Shopify
Gadget.dev
React
Node.js
MySQL
Docker
nginx
AWS
DigitalOcean
Railway
Netlify
Hotwire
HTMX
Claude Code

2013 — 2021 · Bangkok, Thailand DELIVERED

Lead developer, then project manager at Common-Services

Eight years building the layer French shops sit on, from an office in Bangkok. I arrived as a developer and left choosing the stack, the planning and the team.

Carriers

The whole Colissimo suite for PrestaShop — carriers, pickup points, labelling, tracking — then Mondial Relay, DPD, Stuart, Couriier and La Poste tracking.

Marketplaces

Connectors for Amazon, Cdiscount, Rakuten, Fnac, Darty, Spartoo, GoSport, Mirakl, Wizaplace, ManoMano, Pixmania and Rue du Commerce. The Mirakl one alone carried Fnac, Darty, Truffaut, Privalia and El Corte Inglés.

Feed.biz

A SaaS feed integrator: product and order flows out to every marketplace above, without a shop having to install anything of its own.

Shopify

Colissimo, Chronopost, Spartoo, Couriier, Stuart, and Cdiscount Flux wired back to Feed.biz.

Label printing

A Java desktop application that sent ZPL and PDF labels straight from PrestaShop to Zebra and Brother printers. A merchant prints hundreds a day; a browser dialog is not a workflow. Common-PrintServer on GitHub

WORKED WITH

PHP
MySQL
PrestaShop
Shopify
Java
React
Node.js
REST and SOAP APIs
XML
ZPL
Docker
nginx
AWS
Heroku

Elsewhere

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