History
You'll find below a quick overview of my resume. As I early started to work my own businesses, I can't quote all the companies I worked with either as a consultant, a freelance or a contractor both for privacy and brevity sakes.
Yet, the quickest way to grasp my personality and my IT journey is to read the following short version of my history.
2012¶
I graduated from high school with a scientific baccalaureate in engineering sciences.
2012 - 2013¶
Not yet sure about my orientation, I took a year of skills upgrade classes for applied arts (MANAA in French). I loved every second of it but in the course of this year, I discovered that what I enjoyed the most applying my creativity to was programming, that I started to learn out of pure curiosity.
This curiosity promptly transformed into a strong interest, then a passion. At the end of the year, I took the decision to overcome my fear of not being smart enough to make a career in IT and applied for a two-years degree at university.
2013 - 2015¶
I graduated from a two-years IT degree in the French university IUT Robert Schuman, Strasbourg, France, where I acquired really strong bases.
During this period, I loved (and still love!) to create various side projects. From an AES 128 implementation, to a basic CMS framework or, last but not least, the creation of my first personal website (dedicated to a novel I was writing at this moment) with a forum, hosted on a (very badly configured) VPS.
Following the excellent result I got from my internship presentation in front of a jury, I decided to seize this opportunity.
2015 - 2017¶
Following my internship whose main goal was to evaluate and start building a web-based ERP tailored to the specific needs of a construction company, I signed my first long-term contract to pursue this project.
You should take a look at this obviously predictable failure story there. That being said, if I had to go back in time to do it again, I would without hesitation. It was a hard time to get through at this moment, but the lessons I learned from it were priceless.
2017 - 2020¶
I decided to start my own web agency by using a PHP framework written as a side project in the previous years. It was a successful experience that allowed me to work with various environments, persons and even technologies.
During this period, I completed, enlarged and thorough my skills to grow as full-stack web developer, project manager and business owner. I did learn management skills as well as negotiation, administrative management, customer relationship, marketing and communication.
Take a look at this story there.
2020 - Today¶
Even if building simple to complex showcase and e-commerce websites was interesting, after almost three years I decided to move toward a more fulfilling job as a consultant and freelancer.
This period is much more technical and allows me to put my hands on very different (and often chaotic) pieces of software. Working to their extension, maintenance, troubleshooting, documentation and/or replacement is something I'm enjoying a lot.
At the same time, I wrote a Dark Fantasy book in French, started to build a NodeJS ecosystem to try to address several NPM problems and have fun building something huge and modular from scratch. I even started to learn digital painting as a hobby.
Tomorrow¶
Even if I love what I'm doing right now, I kinda start to feel the urge to move forward again.
I will create a YouTube channel and start live experiments about many advanced programming topics. The main goal being to keep motivation to learn the tremendous amount of things I still have to learn despite my great experience in the field the past eight years.
May it be an encouragement for some folks around there that would want to enter the web dev field too and didn't dare to make the first move yet :)