Guillaume Besse

Senior Software Engineer Web & Mobile

Salary / Daily rate

Opio, France

Freelance, open to permanent contract

Remote only

Skills

Ruby on RailsJavaGolangSQL databasesMobile DevelopmentReact NativeBackend DevelopmentC#KotlinSwiftFirebaseAWSElasticsearch

Languages

French (Native)English (Fluent)

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Work experience

Senior Software Engineer

366

Feb 2025 - Present

1 year 9 months

Opio, France

Starting from scratch the development of a complex web application using Ruby on Rails 8, Turbo & Stimulus with PostgreSQL.

Senior Full Stack Engineer

Aepsilon

Jan 2023 - Jan 2025

2 years 1 month

Sophia Antipolis, France

I am working on a healthcare remote patient monitoring application. I'm developing from scratch a graphQL API in java with quarkus and java 17. The clients of the API are a mobile app and a front web. I am developping the mobile app with React Native. I've set up Fastlane for automated store deployment, ensuring efficient app distribution. I also participate to web client development in vue.js.

CTO & Senior Software Engineer

ChefSimon.com

Feb 2021 - Mar 2023

2 years 2 months

Opio, France

chefsimon.com is a community of people with a passion for food. The web site has 150k recipes created by 12k members and an average of 4 million visitors per month with more than 22k rpm at max. • I designed the general architecture • I developed the website • I tuned performance

Senior Software Engineer

teepik

Oct 2016 - Jan 2021

4 years 4 months

13700 Marignane, France

teepik is a social network mobile app where you recommend skilled professionals, restaurants, plumbers, etc. to your friends. It’s available on Apple and Google stores. Both apps are native. Most of my time, I develop the iOS app in swift and the Rest API / GraphQL in Golang. When not developing, I work on improving the UI, performances or our architecture. Languages : swift 5.0, Kotlin, Go 1.12 (API + web site), java Hosting : heroku, AWS API & tools : git, postgresql, firebase, twilio, sendgrid, Facebook SDK, Google Places.

Senior Software Engineer / Architect

CSTB

Jul 2001 - Oct 2016

15 years 4 months

Sophia Antipolis

I worked in the team in charge of distributing technical and regulation document database softwares for the building sector. Reef is the CSTB’s best selling software product. ◦ I managed a team of 3 developers to built the first online version of Reef called batiped ia.com, a java web app with more than 3000 documents available through 15 different products. I designed the global architecture. I designed and developed a relevant full text search engine using Apache Lucene. I selected a hosting solution and installed the new infrastucture ◦ I designed the global architecture, automated the building and deployment of our software products using Atlassian bamboo, maven and ssh ◦ I designed and developed gebidoc, a ASP.NET document management system used internally by 4 documentalists to maintain documents and to define software products. ◦ I designed and developed Reef Classic. More than 2500 documents embedded in a java web app you can install with a DVD on macOS, windows or linux ◦ I designed and developed OLMS, a java web app used to manage user licences of several desktop softwares Languages : java 8, groovy, C#, asp.net, javascript Hosting : custom solution using Linux and virtual machines (VMWare) API & tools : git, maven, spring, hibernate, ElasticSearch, mysql, bamboo, tomcat, Artifactory,

Co-founder, Software engineer

OVE (Web Agency)

Jan 1997 - Dec 2001

5 years

Sophia-Antipolis

Ove was a web agency specialized in building dynamic web apps using databases at a time the web was mainly static pages. Ove was acquired in 1999 by RTSE Network, an international Finish group. ◦ I designed & developed web applications for customers (portal, e-commerce) ◦ I worked with sales to make business proposals ◦ I designed a hosting solution for our clients ◦ Once acquired by RTSE, I worked as IT Consultant Some clients : CCI Nice, Nortel Networks, Ferrero Group. Languages : java, microsoft asp, javascript, SQL Server


Education

Pierre and Marie Curie University

Master's degree, Applied Computer science

1992 - 1994

2 years

Université Côte d'Azur

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