Christophe Jean

Staff Engineer

I design reusable architectures and tools to meet shared needs, and I support teams in their development. Developer since 2011, I later specialized in Symfony and TypeScript.

Work

Engineering Manager (Hands-on)

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Paris

Team management and delivery of critical features, with direct involvement in incidents.

  • Managed a team of up to 6 people (backend, frontend).

  • Led the technical side of a major AWS migration: -45% infrastructure costs.

  • Modernised the stack and improved performance: Core Web Vitals (CLS reduced to 0.0), backend optimisation.

  • Introduced ADRs (Architecture Decision Records) to trace and document structural choices.

Team Lead Developer

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Paris

Cross-team technical reference for a growing team: mentoring and architectural consistency.

  • Structured the first squad in six months with the Head of Engineering: its way of working and rituals were used as the model for moving to four squads, in a development team that grew fourfold.

Technical Project Manager

fr.webedia-group.com/?ref=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cjean.fr 750g.com, Académie du Goût - Online media group
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Levallois

Technical responsibility for 750g.com and Académie du Goût.

  • Symfony content and SEO bundle for 750g.com (~8M visits/month): typed documents, customisable fields, hierarchical inheritance and URLs decoupled from the database.

  • Technical lead of the asynchronous rebuild of the payment funnel on both sites for PSD2 (Académie du Goût: ~700k visits/month).

  • Industrialised code practices (code reviews, quality).

Lead Backend Developer

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Paris

Backend development of the e-commerce platform.

  • Rewrote an ORM to abstract SQL and NoSQL databases, local or remote; compatible with MySQL, MongoDB and Redis.

  • Designed and led the migration of a legacy system (Zend) to Symfony.

  • Set up CI/CD pipelines to automate and secure deployments.

Technical Lead

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Paris

Grew from consultant to technical lead, with responsibility for architecture and for how development was organised.

  • Matching algorithm between job offers and candidates based on weighted proximity: thousands of profiles, more than 20 technical and behavioural skills scored from 0 to 5.

  • Led the migration from the in-house framework to the Symfony ecosystem.

  • Put the 'Sans CV' (no resume) solution for Pôle Emploi into production.

R&D Engineer / Consultant

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Paris

Development of business applications and internal tools, Symfony migrations and R&D projects for large accounts.

  • Designed and built a high-performance internal tool (Node.js, WebSocket).

Technical Project Manager / Developer

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Paris

Development and maintenance of the payment modules.

  • Created, on my own initiative, a client/project tracking tool shared between teams, with real-time updates (Node.js 0.8, WebSockets).

  • Optimisation and maintenance of the processors for the Proxy module (Regex / C# / XML).

Education

Institut Des Techniques Informatiques de Cergy

Manager en ingénierie informatique
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M2IRT (Bac+5)

Courses
  • Audit of an existing information system.

  • Consulting on information system strategy.

  • Design and implementation of IT systems and networks.

  • Project management in France and internationally.

  • Management of intercultural teams and change management.

  • IT business development and client management.

  • Entrepreneurship and development of innovative activities.

Projects

Vincle

Creator and maintainer
– Present

JSX to HTML rendering engine in TypeScript, with no React and no client-side JavaScript.

  • Dependency-free rendering engine with typed props and attributes.

  • Escaped output and filtered URLs by default; the test suite is itself checked by mutation testing.

  • Deferred fragments and streaming, precompilation, Vite plugin and ESLint rules.

Firefox Chrome Look

Creator and maintainer
– Present

CSS customization for Firefox's native vertical tabs: full-height Chrome-like layout, with no imposed colors.

  • The tabs panel reaches the top of the window; the navigation bar only takes the remaining area.

  • The active Firefox theme is followed, illustrated with the official Mozilla themes.

  • Interactive installer: detects the Firefox profiles (deb, snap, flatpak) and offers to pick one.

i18n-tiny

Creator and maintainer at @cjean-fr/i18n-tiny
– Present

Typed translation library in TypeScript, dependency-free and under 500 bytes compressed.

  • Translation keys are autocompleted.

  • A misspelled parameter in a translation is a compile error, not a production bug.

  • Works in the browser and on Node.js, with no configuration.

Skills

Architecture & Backend

  • PHP
  • Symfony
  • Software architecture
  • API Platform design
  • Database optimisation (MySQL, PostgreSQL)
  • NoSQL (MongoDB, Redis)

Frontend & TypeScript ecosystem

  • TypeScript
  • React
  • NextJS
  • Node.js
  • WebSockets
  • Tailwind CSS

DevOps & Engineering Practices

  • Software Craftsmanship (DDD, SOLID)
  • Technical debt reduction & legacy code
  • CI/CD (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI)
  • Docker
  • AWS (EC2, S3, RDS)
  • Mentoring and code review

Languages

French

Native

English

Advanced