
Philippe Makzoume
Flutter Technical lead at Polar Stork
Salaire / Taux journalier
Beyrouth, Liban
Freelance, ouvert au CDI
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Expérience de travail
Polar Stork
déc. 2019 - Présent
6 ans 11 mois
Beyrouth, Liban
Technical Lead
août 2023 - Présent
3 ans 3 mois
Beyrouth, Liban
Promoted to Technical Lead, taking ownership beyond individual contributions while remaining hands-on in development. - Leading multi-platform development across iOS, Android, and Web using Flutter, ensuring consistency, performance, and scalability. - Ensuring high code quality across the team through reviews, architectural guidance, and shared engineering standards. - Training and mentoring new team members, onboarding them into codebases, workflows, and best practices. - Writing and maintaining technical documentation, internal guidelines, and architectural references. - Actively involved in research and development, evaluating new tools, patterns, and workflows to improve delivery and product quality. - Leading initiatives to reduce operating costs and development timelines, including the introduction of agentic workflows that reduced time-to-market from ~6 months to 1–2 months. - Responsible for performance monitoring, App Store and Play Store deployments, and overseeing production operations. - Maintaining a strong focus on application performance, scalability, stability, and long-term maintainability, with broad product ownership. - Improving both customer experience (client-facing) and user experience (end users) by introducing modern approaches such as animations, motion design, and thoughtful interaction patterns. - Ensuring applications remain up to date with platform changes, dependencies, and evolving best practices. - Driving architectural decisions with a focus on Riverpod, declarative routing, and feature-based / MVVM architecture. - Authoring and maintaining internal and public packages, and sharing knowledge through technical articles on Medium and demo content on YouTube. - Actively contributing to the Flutter community by participating in conferences like Flutter Connection and Google I/O, organizing local hackathons, and mentoring to help grow the local Flutter ecosystem.
Flutter & Dart / Full Stack Developper
déc. 2019 - Présent
6 ans 11 mois
Lebanon, Tennessee, États-Unis
- Working with various startups to design, develop, and maintain digital products across web and mobile platforms. - Building and maintaining applications using Flutter, Python (Django), React, Node.js, and Golang, applying scalable and modular architecture patterns. - Designing and implementing RESTful APIs, GraphQL APIs, and gRPC services, supporting both internal and external integrations. - Handling database design and optimization across relational and NoSQL databases, with attention to performance and data integrity. - Implementing authentication, authorization, and role-based access control, with secure data handling practices. - Writing unit and integration tests, participating in code reviews, and contributing to shared engineering standards. - Working in Agile environments, participating in sprint planning, estimations, stand-ups, and retrospectives. - Collaborating closely with product managers, designers, and stakeholders to translate requirements into technical solutions. - Supporting deployment workflows, environment configuration, monitoring, and production issue resolution.
Senior Flutter Developer
PolarLabsFreelance
juin 2025 - déc. 2025
7 mois
Toronto, ON, Canada
Collaborated with Polar Labs on multiple Flutter projects, building performant, scalable, and visually polished applications. Contributed to both client-facing products and the company’s open-source Flutter foundation, emphasizing maintainability, responsiveness, and modern UI practices. Key Projects & Contributions Piñones (https://app.pinones.io) Crossword-style puzzle game combining word grids and anagram solving. - Improved grid responsiveness and mobile scrolling for a seamless multi-device experience. - Implemented adaptive layouts and text handling to eliminate clue cutoffs. - Added interactive popups, stage transitions, and smoother user flow between grid and scramble modes. - Reworked input logic for fluid typing and navigation within puzzles. - Enhanced post-completion UX with shareable results, messages, and challenge modes. Polar Labs Starter Kit : Open-source Flutter boilerplate accelerating app development. - Built reusable architecture and UI components for consistent project setup. - Integrated theming, navigation, and localization with a modular Riverpod structure. - Authored documentation to streamline onboarding and promote scalable development. SpeakSense.ai: AI-powered communication analysis platform. - Collaborated in a team composed of several members participating in DevOps, Backend, Design, and managerial roles. - Delivered a responsive Flutter Web UI sustaining 60 FPS performance across devices. - Developed a multi-pane adaptive layout aligned with Material 3 and dynamic theming. - Integrated JWT authentication, REST APIs (Retrofit), and MVVM architecture with Riverpod and Freezed. - Leveraged experience on advanced topics like slivers, animations, and state persistence for smooth, reactive UX. - Added deep link handling, multi-theme support, and robust widget/integration tests for reliability. Tech Stack: Flutter, Dart, MVVM, REST, JWT Auth, Bitbucket, GitHub, Jira, Kanban
Information Technology Trainer
Codi_Tech
avr. 2019 - janv. 2020
10 mois
Beirut District, Lebanon
- Developed, maintained, and delivered technical courses in Git, JavaScript, Node.js, and React, aligned with current industry practices. - Reviewed student projects and provided structured feedback, working with senior mentors to support student progress and technical skill development. - Designed and led the development of an internal dashboard application using React and Node.js to manage cohorts, courses, and administrative operations from a single platform. - Built internal tools that improved visibility into course delivery and supported collaboration across trainers and trainees.
Formation
Codi
Certified Full-Stack Web Developper by Simplon.co, Informatique
2018 - 2019
2 ans
42 Paris
Informatique
2016 - 2017
2 ans
Saint Joseph University of Beirut
Informatique et Gestion des entreprises
2014 - 2016
3 ans