
Franck VERMEULEN
Lead Architect, Data Engineer, Lead Back-end Dev
Salary / Daily rate
Paris, France
Freelance, open to permanent contract
Can come onsite
Skills
Languages
Work experience
GenAI/LLM & Sw Engineer, Back-end and devOps
GenAI Project
Mar 2025 - Present
1 year 8 months
Paris, France
GenAI - LLM - RAG - MCP - Lean - Cloud Native - Microservices - Serverless GenAI & Sw Engineer, back-end developper • Building from MVP to Production a GenAI Cloud Native platform. • Product: Email account information automated extraction. • Cloud Native & Serverless Microservices Architecture : REST APIs, Golang, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Cloud Run (Serverless). • Lean Oriented and User Value approach for GenAI : • a UX where AI is not an additional cognitive workload for the user, • a Product approach bringing the user a service in a specific vertical, • using tech best practices: Lean, Architecture & Software Engineering for GenAI. Achievements and path to production: • CLI & devOps, CI/CD GitLab. • Several business challenges and non-functional requirements : • Processing long and multiple jobs with concurrency. • Email data source integration from GMail. Can source other email clients. • 1st approach with OpenAI API LLM. Ability to integrate other LLMs (Claude, Mistral, Gemini, Grok, etc.) or adopt RAG or MCP approaches. • REST API Architecture style: standard but nonetheless evolutionary.
Senior Back-end dev, Data engineer, devOps
U-Trade
Nov 2020 - Feb 2025
4 years 4 months
Paris, France
FinTech - InsurTech - StartUp - Data - Craftsmanship - Scalability Lead Software Engineer and Co-Founder • Acquired in-depth knowledge in Order-to-Cash and Trade Credit Insurance business. • Conducted 10 C-suite user interviews, and product workshops. • Actively contributed to the roadmaps. Created the bottom-up Business Plan. • Actively contributed to the strategy and the pitch leading to raising 1M€ pre-seed. • Hired and managed 6 technical co-workers. Operations, acting on all technical fields: architecture, devOps, security, back-end, front-end, dataOps and data engineering • SPA Web Application + Cloud-Native platform based upon serverless event-driven microservices + datalake supporting data pipelines for data consolidation. • Met several business and non-functional challenges: - platform for cherry-picking; - low-cost still rich system; - simple standard REST APIs still evolutive architecture; - event-driven microservices enabling easy to experiment, build, deploy, maintain and migrate code bases. • Handled devOps (incl. CLI). • Code reviews, pair programming. • Built a hybrid data pipeline for automatic reconciliation (Machine Learning & UI). • Hands-On since day 1 on all tech roles with 90% average of my time on back-end. • 10+ microservices in production, 1 event broker, 9 queues, 70+ repos in Gitlab • Authored 70% of commits (24k) and 40% of lines of code (1M) in 3 years.
Lead Architect and Inner Source Developer
Renault Digital
Jun 2017 - Mar 2020
2 years 10 months
Paris Area, France
Digital Transformation - Reactive Architecture - Micro-Services - Tech Community • Among the first people to join Renault Digital adventure in the Technology Center. • Solution Architects Lead (12 person Solution Architect group, the "projects Hands-On CTO/CDOs"). • Inner Source development (company’s internal Open Source) for 25% of my time: PoCs, Spikes (Cloud, Kubernetes, NodeJS, Java Spring Boot, Golang, Python, Kubernetes, Angular 8). • Digital Vision advocate: - Best Practices evangelization, - Recommendations and audits on Software and Data architecture, - Team process & organization improvement, - and tech stack recommendations • More than 30 products including 12 involving Data Science. • Agile product lifecycle, SCRUM. • Involved with many different Renault business and IT departments. • Keeper of the the key digital principles in a Digital Transformation process for a technical context with distributed systems, especially educated by the co-written manifesto of the Technology 7 Principles. • Learning Organization (in the sense of Peter Senge) with a structure similar to Spotify. • Direct involvement in recruitment process (30+ tech persons) / member of the Tech Center management board / Digital Culture evangelist and team working advocate / contribution to Starlings company Mission and Vision seminar. • Creation and lead of the first Renault Guild "Digital Makers" / launched an internal digital product ("Product Pulse") for team digital maturity guiding and self-evaluating used by 30+ teams / launched a devOps squad around the Kubernetes topic.
Lead Software Engineer, devOps: web, mobile, embedded, IoT on several startup projects
New exciting projects
Feb 2016 - May 2017
1 year 4 months
Paris Area, France
Supporting several projects as a lead software engineer and full-stack developer while seeking an ambitious project (IoT or pure Web/Mobile). My profile : - Keep an effective know-how in many technologies and empower my team - Vision - Team building and management - Organization - Technical Architecture and Design - Hands-on developer and DevOps Supported projects : - FoodTech Startup (market place) : software and IT architecture, developers recruitment, front-end + back-end specifications. Front-end project management. Back-end development. Technologies: AngularJS, NodeJS, MongoDB. - Industrial IoT Startup (gesture remote control) : data fusion algorithm, project management and documentation, industrialization and fund raising support. Embedded development. Technologies : C++, STM32 micro-controllers, IMU, Quaternions. - Social Networking Startup (crowd-sourcing) : architecture, specifications for front-end and back-end. Project technical structuration and management. Full-Stack development. Technologies : Java Spring Boot and Angular 2.
Lead Software Engineer, devOps
SeniorAdom
Nov 2012 - Mar 2015
2 years 5 months
92120 Montrouge, France
- created the technical system from scratch: IoT and SaaS - technical study and specifications for the full connected object system - finding and dealing with the sub-contractors for the gateway and its wireless peripherals - design and development of the intelligent gateway embedded application (Java SE) - design and development of the cloud application (Java Spring Boot) - automation tools design and development for the industrialization and commercialization Strong security constraints. Development of most of the embedded software and the cloud application. Related Websites development. Responsible for hiring and driving a developers' team of up to 5 developers.
Consultant & Founder
ALTA Solutions S.A.S
Mar 2009 - Jan 2015
5 years 11 months
Paris, France
ALTA SOLUTIONS seeks the optimum solution and creates your website, software application (web application, office application, hybrid application) and your iPhone/iPad application. We can also provide you with consulting services in your projects and train you to the software tools that you need. software development, iPhone applications, web sites, training, consulting
Lecturer in Digital Communication MBA
EFAP
Oct 2012 - Aug 2014
1 year 11 months
Paris, France
Lecture : "Inside the WEB and Mobile Technologies"
Lecturer
Université Paris Est Créteil - UFR Sciences et Technologie
Oct 2010 - Aug 2014
3 years 11 months
Co-founder
Zelco
Feb 2010 - Dec 2011
1 year 11 months
I built the entire technical system of the Zelco.org facebook application and website.
Education
Isep - École d'ingénieurs du numérique
Engineering
Licenses & certifications
Modernizing Data Lakes and Data Warehouses with GCP
Issued: Nov 2020
Google Cloud Platform Big Data and Machine Learning Fundamentals
Issued: Sep 2020
Portfolio

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