
Clement Balea
Tech Lead
Salary / Daily rate
Paris, France
Freelance
Remote only
Skills
Languages
About me
Intro
Tech Lead & Senior Software Engineer with 15+ years of experience in Python (FastAPI, Flask, Django) and JS/TS (Vue, Node, Electron). Built Chrome extensions, Slack bots, and CI/CD on AWS/Docker. I integrate AI (CoT, ToT) into modern, pragmatic, high-impact solutions across startups and open-source projects.
Work experience
Senior Fullstack Engineer & Tech Lead
IRISFreelance
Apr 2024 - Present
2 years 7 months
Remote
IRIS is a venture capital firm aiming to invest in high-potential European startups. To better target these hidden gems, they have developed an application that allows them to collect and receive alerts about the developments of these startups. My role: - Optimization, cleaning, and improvement of constraints on the existing database (reduced from 8 GB to 55 MB) - Migration, optimization, and rewriting of the existing solution from Ruby to Python - Deployment of servers on AWS using IaC with Terraform - Implementation of CI/CD with GitHub Actions - Analysis of developments and writing of tickets - Continuous synchronization between Airtable and the database - Creation of an API to perform maintenance tasks and calls from various fronts - Alerting via Slack on the growth of startups in the database - Creation of a Slack bot to interpret user requests and convert them into SQL queries using AI - Integration of AI to automatically complete data using ToT / CoT methodologies - Creation of a Chrome extension in Vue 3 to retrieve information in the database from the website being visited - Creation of a new API (FastAPI / Vue 3 / TS / PostgreSQL) for communication with investors
Senior Software Engineer
RGoodsFreelance
Aug 2023 - Sep 2023
2 months
Remote
Rgoods is a startup that works, among other things, on facilitating donations to NGOs. As part of the development of their SaaS platform for NGOs, they called on my services to integrate the PSP (Payment Service Provider) aggregator NORBr.
Technical Lead
Freelance
Sep 2021 - Apr 2023
1 year 8 months
Paris, France
Alma is a BNPL (buy now pay later) fintech that allows customers to pay by instalments or deferred payment and pay the merchant immediately. My role: • Develop new features using TDD methodology and pair programming. Reviewing my teammates' code. • Handling of high-risk run tasks with a high impact on the production environment, such as: double charges on 1st instalment, refunding customer, fixing data inconsistencies, etc. • Participate in the design of new products and ensure their technical coherence. • Onboard new teammates and help them learn new skills. Evaluate the performance of my direct reports. • Writing technical and functional documentation. Initiate knowledge sharing sessions.
Airbus
Jan 2014 - Sep 2021
7 years 9 months
Toulouse · Hybrid
Senior Software Engineer (Airbus)
Sep 2018 - Sep 2021
3 years 1 month
Toulouse · Hybrid
The goal of the Airbus IoT project was to reduce material losses and optimise the production chain. To achieve this, we needed to capture, decode and interpret the messages sent by the sensors, and generate alerts if necessary. My role: • Developing new features: front-end, back-end and UI/UX. One of my most interesting features was a codec editor to decode and normalise messages sent by IoT sensors. • Automate the deployment of new Greengrass on-premises servers using Ansible and AWS IoT Core. • Write documentation for every new feature. Enabling the integration of new team members by documenting the configuration of our working environment. • Create an interface to receive MQTT messages instantly by hierarchical level.
Site Reliability Engineer
May 2018 - Sep 2018
5 months
Toulouse · Hybrid
The goal of Airbus's public cloud project is the automation of the creation of AWS accounts on demand, as well as ensuring the security perimeter of these accounts. The SRE team, of which I was a part, aimed to ensure the rapid creation of accounts with associated security rules. Updating existing accounts according to new rules was also within our scope.
Technical Lead
Jan 2014 - May 2018
4 years 5 months
Région de Toulouse, France
INSIDE is Airbus' on-premise IaaS portal it manages servers, accounts, and storage spaces. It's a self-service system of Airbus Infrastructure providing account creation, server setup, storage management, alert monitoring, deactivation of non-compliant accounts, and deletion of temporary servers. My role: • Set up the CI/CD pipeline and improve the development process. • Writing architecture decision records (ADRs) for infrastructure design and new feature development. • Support project managers in the design of new product architectures and their technical coherence. • Help my colleagues approach complex features. • Reviewing my team's code and helping my colleagues learn new skills through pair programming and holding knowledge sharing sessions. • Migrating our product from a custom framework to Symfony. Improve security and simplicity of existing services. • Participate in the recruitment process of new engineers and check their technical skills
Full-stack developer
Celad
Oct 2012 - Dec 2013
1 year 3 months
Varied missions, for different clients: web agency, banking sector, training platform. My role: • Design and development of a mapping application to provide a detailed view of the Airbus site. • Creation of a security best practices document for PHP-Symfony development for Caisse d'Epargne (Bank)
Software Development Engineer
La Bonne Agence
Sep 2010 - Nov 2011
1 year 3 months
Région de Grenoble, France
"La bonne agence" is a web agency that creates websites and web applications. My role: • Create new Drupal modules/themes to meet client needs. • Optimise database performance to improve user experience. • Analyse and implement new features.
Fullstack developer
Extellient
Oct 2008 - Jun 2010
1 year 9 months
Grenoble, France
Extellient is a company that provides digital solutions to its customers. The quality and maintainability of their product was one of their main strengths. My role: • New feature development (frontend, backend). • Ovidentia module development. • R&D on PHP compilation.
Education
Université Joseph Fourier (Grenoble I)
Master 1 MIAGE, IT & Math
2006 - 2009
3 years
Activities and societies: Improvisational theater
Université Joseph Fourier (Grenoble I)
DEUG MIAS, Math
2003 - 2007
4 years
Activities and societies: Théâtre d'improvisation
Licenses & certifications
AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Issued: Jul 2020