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Hi, I am Antoine

Antoine Vadot

Engaged software engineer

I am a passionate software engineer with 4 years of working experience. I am engaged on transitions (social, environmental). I am available to work with engaged companies and non-profits to support them with their tech needs.

Free and Open-source software
Web ㅤ development
Ecodesign
Performance & optimisation
Leadership
Software architecture

Skills

PHP Development
PHP Development

Using it as the main backend language for professional development. Capable of writing scalable, testable, and maintainable programs. Experienced with Symfony and Slim frameworks. Experienced with Wordpress CMS.
ReactJS Development
ReactJS Development

Using it as the main frontend language for professional development. Capable of writing modulable, testable, and maintainable programs. Experienced with standard packages tooling (Redux, I18Next, formik, ramda, router, etc.)
Go Development
Go Development

Using it as the second language for professional development. Capable of contributing to existing projects. Experienced in OIDC/oAuth2 integration.
Static site Developement
Static site Developement

Developement of lightweight site using Hugo: a static site generator. Static sites are perfect to have a fast loading site, low carbon footprint and anti planned obsolescence
Docker
Docker

Writing most programs as dockerized container. Experienced with compose and multi-stage, multi-arch build process.
MySQL Database admin
MySQL Database admin

Capable of managing, optimizing and requesting complex MariaDB/MySQL databases.
Linux
Linux

Experienced in system administration. Using it as the main operating system. Capable of writing bash/shell scripts.
Git
Git

Experienced with git-based development. Mostly, use Gitlab or Github.
Kubernetes
Kubernetes

Capable of deploying and managing application on Kubernetes. Experienced in using Helm charts to deploy services.
Web scraping
Web scraping

Developing and running web scrapers to retreive structured data from websites. Using Scrapy and Beautifulsoup.
FOSS administration
FOSS administration

Experienced in Free and Open-Source Software deployment, maintenance and administration. Capable of hosting most of the open-source alternatives to classical web services.
CTO / Entrepreneur
CTO / Entrepreneur

Experienced in entrepreneurship. Capable of managing a project, a team and to go toward a common goal. Experienced in tech team and project management.

Experience

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Freelance

May 2015 - Present, Internet

Working with different kinds of organizations, helping them with their computing struggles.

Entrepreneurship coaching

Sep 2021 - Present

  • Helping entrepreneurs with their daily issues
  • Peer problem solving
  • NVC
Web performance engineer

Sep 2021 - Present

  • Improve web performance on websites and applications
  • Reduce loading time of pages
  • Database optimization
Technical advisor

Sep 2021 - Present

  • Helping organizations to take the right technical decision
  • Helping organizations to respect more privacy of their users
  • Helping organizations to choose the right tools and technologies for their needs
Technical audit

Sep 2021 - Present

  • Security audit
  • Carbon footprint audit
  • Performance audit
  • Privacy audit
Free and open-source expert

Sep 2021 - Present

  • Sharing huge knowledge about the free and open-source ecosystem
  • Helping organizations to have a more open-source oriented approach
  • Helping organizations to use right free and open-source tools
System Administrator

Sep 2016 - Present

  • Linux system administration
  • Hosting of services on Linux, Docker or compose environments
  • Database management and administration
Web developper

May 2015 - Present

  • Frontend development
  • Backend developement
  • Fullstack developement
Nebulae

Oct 2021 - Present, France

Nebulae provides privacy centric web services to people and non-profits and training to help people move from classical tools to alternative ones.

Co-founder

Fev 2017 - Present

  • Hiring
  • Communication
  • Fundraising
  • Volunteers management
System administrator

Fev 2017 - Present

  • Deploying services (mail, mailing list, cloud, calendar sync, contacts manager, password manager, etc)
  • Maintain, debug and update services
  • Fullstack development
  • System tools development
  • Unique account auth system setup (LDAP)
Trainer

Oct 2021 - Present

  • Creating trainings on alternative computing
  • Animating training
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Misakey

Jun 2018 - Dec 2021, Lyon, France

Misakey develops the most simple user account to add to any app with advanced features to secure and keep confidential customer information.

Co-founder

Jun 2018 - Dec 2021

  • Defining vision of the company
  • Defining best product
  • Hiring
  • Fundraising
CTO

Jun 2018 - Dec 2021

  • Application architecture
  • Lead tech team (9 people)
  • Fullstack development (ReactJS / Golang)
  • OIDC/oAuth2 deployment
  • Web scraping of privacy information on 200+ millions websites
  • Devops and deployment management
  • Tools engineering
Project Mentor
Latitudes

Sep 2017 - Jun 2020, France

A community of tech actors acting to create a more engaged and responsible tech

Responsibilities:
  • Supervising student projects for non-profits
  • Technical advising
  • Helping student to organize them
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Education
École Centrale Paris
2014-2018
Master in Computer Science & Engineering
Taken Courses
  • Entrepreneurship
  • Software Development
  • Information System Security
  • Deep Learning
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Information System Architecture
  • DataMining
  • Computer Vision
  • FPGA
  • Electronics
  • Robotics
Extracurricular Activities
  • Stage manager for campus live TV Show
  • Video production and editing
  • System administration for video broadcasting platform
Prépa Aux Lazaristes
2012-2014
Highly Intensive Maths and Physics courses
Extracurricular Activities
  • Student association member

Freelance Portfolio

Santé Afrique Website
Developer October 2015 - December 2015

Sante Afrique is a french initiative from bnscommunication that proposes a package of communication tools about the Ebola virus, to help non-profits communicate about it in Africa. They needed a static website to showcase this offering. I developed it.

dev static site
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ARPE Website
Developer May 2015 - July 2015

La Mie De Pain is a french non-profit helping people in difficulty to reinsert themselves into society. They needed a website for a new building they opened. I developed this.

dev wordpress
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bnscommunication Website
Developer October 2015 - December 2015

bnscommunication is a french communication agency focused on health issues. They needed a renewal of their website. I developed it.

dev static site
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Canal+ Facebook Chatbot
Developer May 2016 - July 2016

Canal+ wanted a prototype of a Facebook chatbot for content recommendation. The bot had to understand natural language, and answer basic recommendation questions (“What’s on Canal+ tonight ?”, “I want to watch some football”, “What’s the next drama movie ?”, ..). I developed a first prototype.

dev chatbot
Webotit
Developer May 2016 - December 2016

Webotit is a French startup that creates chatbots for retails companies. I developed their first MVP: basic chatbot features, barcode recognition, diagnosis, dashboard

dev chatbot
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Mon Toit Vert
Developer May 2017 - June 2017

Mon Toit Vert needed a calculator, quote generator, and online payment platform for their rooftop greening solution. I developed this platform.

dev website
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Webop
System Administrator October 2017 - December 2017

Webop is an IT consulting company building websites for SMBs. They built all their infrastructure over HTTP, I helped them to migrate to HTTPS

sysadmin https
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The Art Cycle
Performance engineer January 2022 - February 2022

The Art Cycle is an online art gallery and ecommerce. Their platform is a homemade ecommerce website. It has huge performance issues. I made optimizations that made critical pages load 10 times faster

consulting performance dev
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Development Hackers
Web engineer December 2022

Development Hackers needed help to configure some of their tools (analytics, newsletter, SMTP server, …). I helped them in this process.

consulting web
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