Experience

Publidata makes software for French local authorities. I worked on the dashboard their partner cities use to run waste collection, shipping features and fixing bugs across a Rails monolith. The role came with a lot of room. It was fully remote and they trusted me to own my scope from one end to the other, so I decided how to approach the work and kept the team with me as I went. That autonomy is what I got the most out of, and it is where I built AI properly into the way I work rather than using it on the side.

A product I own from end to end. I built NutriFlow after four years of lifting and a dozen apps that each solved part of the problem, and it now runs in production with real users on it. The schema, the features, the deploys and every product call are mine, which is a different kind of work from picking up a ticket and a useful counterweight to it.

A multi-tenant Rails monolith, front and back in one application, serving several clients from a single codebase with modules enabled per customer. Much of the interface was data tables, and the team kept the app close to the current Rails release. I spent the year on real tickets: features, bug fixes and improvements across the platform. This is where I learned Rails, alongside mentors trained at Le Wagon who took the time to bring me up properly. I also brought in a friend as product owner, which gave me my first experience of shipping next to someone on the product side. Doing all of it in parallel with my degree taught me as much about working inside a company as about Ruby.

Front-end work on an internal analytics dashboard, in Angular and TypeScript. Angular is the second most used JavaScript framework after React and it works nothing like it, so the learning curve was most of the value. I picked up the basics of Java alongside it. A friend brought me into the company and we ended up on the same team, which made it my first real experience of building something with someone rather than next to them. It was also my first look inside an organization of that size.

I pitched an early version of my final year project at the Cité des Congrès, in front of several hundred people. The idea was to digitize the way the animal rendering industry in France handles its communications, which is less glamorous than it sounds and genuinely unsolved. The project itself never went anywhere in the end. I volunteered across the rest of the weekend. I like being on a stage and arguing for an idea in front of a room, and this was the first time I got to do either.

My first time inside a company. I built automated statistical tooling with Ansible, and picked up SQL and Python along the way. What stuck was less technical than that: seeing how work actually gets planned, and what agile looks like when it is not a slide.