David Boureau
Backend Ruby on Rails developer
Salary / Daily rate
Paris, France
Freelance, open to permanent contract
Can come onsite
Skills
Languages
About me
Intro
Senior Ruby & TypeScript developer and tester with 17+ years building scalable web applications and leading tech teams. Former CTO of French government startup serving unemployed citizens, with expertise in Rails monoliths and fullstack development. Specialized in Ruby/Rails and TypeScript/NextJS with proven experience delivering high-impact public sector solutions.
Work experience
Backend Ruby on Rails developer and tester
Zapfloor
Mar 2024 - Dec 2024
10 months
Antwerp, Belgium
Skills: Backend tester · Ruby on Rails · Swagger API
Fullstack TypeScript developer and tester
ADEME
Sep 2022 - Mar 2024
1 year 7 months
Paris, France
Used both Cypress and Playwright, as well as Jest for testing. Fullstack development with NextJS, first written in JS, then converted to TS. CharkraUI and CSS modules for styling. Scalingo for deployment.
CTO - Ruby on Rails
Ministère du Travail
Apr 2018 - Oct 2022
4 years 7 months
Paris, France
- CTO for French gov startup named "Clara", who served French unemployed for 5 years - User testing - Ruby-on-Rails monolith - Fullstack web development - Recruitement
FullStack Javascript Developer and Tester
Ministère de l'Éducation nationale et de la Jeunesse
Sep 2016 - Mar 2018
1 year 7 months
Paris, France
I was amongst the first developer of PIX, which is still a vibrant success 7 years later. I was EmberJS + NodeJS developer there. I used the usual CI/CD, we had a nice branch-per-per setup, as well as incredible unit testing philosophy.
Front-end JS mentor
France Télévisions
Feb 2013 - Mar 2015
2 years 2 months
Greater Paris Metropolitan Region · On-site
Front end web expertise and consulting in various CSS/JS frameworks and workflow tools. QA Lead - JSHint, JSLint, PhantomJS, CasperJS, mocha, jasmine, ngScenario, WebDriverJS, istanbul coverage. AngularJS developer, teacher, consultant. CSS hacking, bootstrap 2 & 3, knacss. Customization of forked bower & npm registries.
QA Lead - Scrum Master
OBERTHUR FIDUCIAIRE SAS
Jan 2011 - Jan 2013
2 years 1 month
7620 Paris, Denmark
In charge of QA, CI, test automation, dev, Scrum ceremonies
Java Web Developer Fullstack
Generali
Jan 2007 - Jan 2010
3 years 1 month
Paris, France
Full Stack Java web developer in Generali Assicurazion
Education
ESEO
Master's degree
2000 - 2005
5 years 1 month
Eseo
Master's degree
2000 - 2005
5 years 1 month
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