Manager, Consultant & Senior Software Engineer

Profile

Senior software developer, with 25 years of experience in web development and 15 years in Mozilla technologies. Studies, specifications, developments, deployments, communication with customers, team management are my daily tasks.

Aeras of Expertise

Web developments with PHP, Javascript HTML5/CSS and other W3C technologies
Development of web infrastructure
Administration of Linux servers
Use open source software for many years...

Work experience

Since February 2022

Manager of the SAAS hosting at 3liz

Management of a team (developers, sys. admin.)
Management of the activity
Customer support
Lead tech on the Development of server infrastructure and SAAS tools
Full remote job

May 2018 - February 2022

Consultant and development manager at 3Liz

I'm working at 3liz, a software editor about GIS tools (Geographics Information Systems).

Development of Lizmap, open-source GIS Web application
Development of server infrastructure for internal tools and for the SAAS product with Lizmap
Development of business modules for Lizmap, for some customers
Mid-time job until 2020. Full remote job

From June 2010 to March 2020

Co-owner of a company, InnoPhi

We provide various services for customers around web developments and software based on Mozilla technologies.

Consulting and training
Audit on web and XUL applications (code quality, security...)
Development of Web Applications
Development of open-source software: SlimerJS and Jelix
Development of software based on Mozilla technologies, and development of addons for Firefox and Thunderbird.

Our customers are big companies like EDF, Europcar, as well as little companies.

From October 2009 to July 2014

Teacher at the university of Evry (near Paris)

Few days per year, I teached on Mozilla technologies to students preparing a master : courses were about XUL add-ons, HTML5, Web Apps for Firefox OS, and also Git...

From February 2009 to May 2010

Senior Software Engineer at Zoomorama

Design and development of ZoomCreator, an XML Wysiwyg editing tool, to edit "zoomable" documents for the web, and using Mozilla technologies (XUL, XulRunner...).

From June 2004 to February 2009

Senior Software Engineer at Disruptive Innovations

Software development using the Mozilla platform. Disruptive Innovations was a member of W3C.

My main project: Etna, a wysiwyg XML Editor, an open source software for Rice University (Houston, Texas). It is built on top of Gecko, with changes on the internal HTML editor of Gecko. Development of a real-time RelaxNG validator. Development of the user interface.
Contributed to the development of BlueGriffon, a wysiwyg HTML Editor, the successor of Nvu: build configuration, few patches on Gecko...
Worked on miscellaneous projects for customers, mainly extensions for Firefox.
Contributions on the Mozilla project : bug reports, development of patchs etc..
Consulting and training for customers about Mozilla technologies.

From October 1999 to June 2004

Software Engineer at Aston

Aston was a services company in computer science (It doesn't exist anymore).

I created various web application and web sites: studying needs of the customers, conception, programming, installing and configuring servers.
I made audit and expert's report on web applications, with criterias such as code quality, performance, security, maintenance...
I provided training to customers and engineers of Aston, on web technologies like PHP and ASP.
I contributed to Copix, an internal open source PHP framework created in 2001.

October 1996 to october 1998

UAP-AXA insurances

Analyst programmer, alternately with my studies (special contract with the university). I worked on programs made in COBOL (IBM ES 9000 mainframe).

Education

1996-1998: MIAGE (master's degree in computer science), alternately with my job at UAP. Université Paris XI (at Orsay).
1994-1996: DUT informatique (Computer science degree), specialization in system programming and networks, Université Paris XI (at Orsay).

Languages

French : mother tongue.
English : read and write well, medium speaking.

Extracurricular activities

I began to develop in 1986, and worked not only on many personnal projects, but also on some public projects. Here are my activities these last years.

Personal projects

Jelix, a PHP Framework (since 2006)
SlimerJS, a scriptable web browser based on Firefox (2012-2020)

Contributions on the Mozilla project (2003-2016)

Founder of the french web site xulfr.org, created in october 2003, and founder of the Xulfr association, created in january 2007 and ceased on 2013. Activities: tech-evangelism, documentation and french translations of some tutorials, online help for french developers (forums, IRC), conferences...

Mozilla code contributor, during my spare time or during my working time for the needs of my professionnal projects. Some of these contributions are improvements on the XUL template engine, support of Sqlite in XUL templates, improvements on the XML and the XHTML serializer.

In 2004-2008, I gave conferences about the Mozilla Plateform (XUL...) during some open-source software events in France like Libr'east, JDLL, Solutions Linux...

I was a member of the association Mozilla-Europe (dissolved in 2012). I help on Mozilla booth during events like Fosdem, Solutions Linux etc...

Since 2011, I am one of the admin system of the web server of the french community of Mozilla (mozfr.org).

Web standards "evangelism"

Co-founder with Tristan Nitot and 9 others people, of Openweb, a web site created in 2003 dedicated to web standards, with tutorials and articles.
I gave conferences about web standards, during some events like Paris-Web. I published also on my blog, news about web standard, articles on HTML5, CSS3...

Other projects

See some other projects, Laurentj account and Jelix organization on Github.

Technical skills

Technologies: W3C Web standards: HTML 5, CSS 3, XML, DOM, Web components, SVG... Frontend development with Webpack, NPM, jQuery, Backbone...
Languages: C/C++, PHP 7/8, Javascript, Bash, Python
Environments: Mainly GNU/Linux (Debian, Proxmox). MacOSX and Windows. Virtualization: Docker, LXC, Vagrant...
Databases: PostGreSql, MySQL, Redis, Sqlite, InfluxDb
System administration: Apache, Nginx, PHP-FPM, RabbitMq, Grafana, Monit, OpenSSH, DNS..
Tools: Git, Gitlab, Ansible
In the past...: I used many languages, technologies and tools in the past. Some of these are Mozilla technologies (XUL, XBl, XPCom C++, ES2016+), Mercurial, MongoDb, CouchDb, RelaxNG, Jenkins, Subversion, PHP 3/4/5, JAVA/JSP, MS SQL Server, Oracle, CVS, ASP VBscript, Win32 programming with Borland C++, XWindows programming, Asm HP48..

Updated: 2023-09-06