Thibaud Fabre

Freelance - Lead Developer

Salary / Daily rate

Paris, France

Freelance

Remote only

Skills

PHPSymfonyDockerKubernetesDomain Driven DesignTest Driven DevelopmentClean CodeClean ArchitectureHTMLTypescriptSoftware CraftsmanshipHexagonal ArchitecturePythonBackend DevelopmentMicroservicesFullstack DevelopmentJavascriptSQL QueriesConfluenceJiraSQL databases

Languages

EnglishFrench

About me

Intro

Senior Software Developer with 13+ years of experience specializing in backend solutions, microservices, and system architecture. Led multiple high-impact projects including API rewrites, payment integrations, and performance optimizations using PHP/Symfony, PostgreSQL, and AWS/Kubernetes. Offering technical leadership and expertise in scalable, maintainable software solutions with a focus on quality assurance and architectural best practices.

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Work experience

Lead Developer

Novaway

Jun 2025 - Feb 2026

9 months

Remote

PHP 8.x, Symfony 6, API Platform, MySQL 8, ReactJS, PHPUnit, Gitlab CI, DDD, CQRS Projects: • Working with institutional and private social landlords to provide tenants with web services (payment services, accounting status, housing related issue management) • Working with an institutional social landlord to provide a communication hub to efficiently dispatch marketing and communications to tenants (news, bills, rent receipts...) • Ensuring timely delivery of features and improvements • Ensuring operational stability of said platforms via monitoring • Management of a team of 4 developers

Lead Developer

TabestoFreelance

Oct 2023 - Jan 2025

1 year 4 months

Paris, France

PHP 5.6–8.3, Symfony 2.6–6.4, Doctrine, MySQL 5–8, PHPUnit, Behat, K6, GitHub, AWS Projects: - Interim lead developer and recruitment of the B2C team (1 lead, 2 developers) following the departure of the previous team - Maintenance of the existing system and development of new features (e.g., integration with a new POS/cash register system) - Redesign of log management to achieve less than 1% false-positive operational alerts - Redesign of backup management to optimize performance and ensure the integrity of saved data - Implementation of smoke tests to ensure minimal functionality during backend deployments, reducing the ratio of bugs per release from 2 to 0.2

Freelance - Lead Developer

Opal SolutionsFreelance

Mar 2020 - May 2022

2 years 3 months

Remote

PHP 7.4, Symfony 4, Silex, MySQL, PostgreSQL, PHPUnit, Gitlab CI, Kubernetes, Helm, AWS Projects: - Optimisation of ACL layer performance - Maintenance/development of web applications (Workload management software for hospital nursing staff, Internship management SAAS platform for nursing students and hospitals) : new feature development, code review, roadmap and sprint planning - Infrastructure migration to Kubernetes cluster (AWS EKS) and deployment of CI/CD in Gitlab - Technical supervision of technical team (1 senior, 3 juniors, 2 interns) - Establishment of best practices in development processes (Agile sprints, review environments, code reviews...) and deployment processes

Freelance - Senior Software Developer

ekWateur

Jun 2019 - Oct 2019

5 months

Paris Area, France

PHP 7.2, Symfony 4, PostgreSQL, RabbitMQ, PHPUnit, Docker, Kubernetes, AWS, REST, SOAP, Gitlab Projects - Technical supervision of customer subscription API rewrite and delivery - Software design and architecture - Quality assurance - code reviews, unit tests, logging improvements - Collaboration with DevOps team to work on migration of PHP projects to Gitlab and Kubernetes

Freelance - Senior Software Developer

iDGARAGES.com

Dec 2018 - May 2019

6 months

Paris Area, France

PHP 7.2, Zend Expressive, Symfony 4, MySQL, MongoDB, RabbitMQ, Redis, ElasticSearch, Logstash, Kibana, Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, Varnish, MicroServices, TDD (PHPUnit), BDD (Behat), Mutation testing (Infection) Projects: - Integration of Varnish cache to improve API performance - Improvement of the logging infrastructure: integration of Elastic Stack in existing Kubernetes cluster to centralize all logs - Micro service development using event sourcing, CQRS, and DDD

Senior Software Developer

FoodChéri

Oct 2017 - Aug 2018

11 months

Paris Area, France

PHP 5.6, Symfony 2.8, MySQL 5.6, Redis, Memcached, AWS, PHPUnit, Jenkins, Linux, HTML5, jQuery Projects: - Delivery monitoring rewrite (UI improvements and new features, ie. SMS API integration) - Integration of Stripe refunds (previously handled manually by customer service) - Logistics and dispatch: Stuart API integration, model rewrite, UI/UX improvements, driver tracking reliability improvements - Invoicing: full rewrite of invoicing model to ensure legal compliance with French tax/invoice laws - Payments: integration of Limonetik PSP (working side-by-side with Stripe) to accept "meal voucher" (PassSodexo/Tickets Restaurants) cards - Global quality improvements (refactoring and unit tests) - Technical supervision of junior/mid-level profiles (2-4 persons)

ALCHEMY SARL

Apr 2015 - May 2017

2 years 2 months

Paris Area, France

Lead Software Developer

Jun 2016 - May 2017

1 year

Paris Area, France

PHP 5.6, Symfony 2.6-2.8, Silex 1, MySQL 5.5, RabbitMQ, Redis, Memcached, AWS, PHPUnit, CircleCI, Linux, HTML5, jQuery, AngularJS, LDAP, oAuth, Ansible, Vagrant Projects: - Maintenance of existing Digital Assets Management solution (open-source, Phraseanet) - Development/maintenance of a "showcase" site platform, consuming the Phraseanet API to quickly build sites for our customers, exposing media subsets stored in Phraseanet to limited users or to public. - Technical supervision of team (2-3 persons)

Software Developer

Apr 2015 - May 2016

1 year 2 months

PHP 5.6, Symfony 2.6-2.8, Silex 1, MySQL 5.5, RabbitMQ, Redis, Memcached, AWS, PHPUnit, CircleCI, Linux, HTML5, jQuery, AngularJS, LDAP, oAuth, Ansible, Vagrant Projects: - Maintenance of existing Digital Assets Management solution (open-source, Phraseanet) - Development of a "showcase" site platform, consuming the Phraseanet API to quickly build sites for our customers, exposing media subsets stored in Phraseanet to limited users or to public. Originaly existed as a Silex project, migrated to Symfony 2.6 for better modularisation of the project.

CEO

Aztech Digital

Jun 2014 - May 2015

1 year

Software Developer

Evaneos.com

Oct 2013 - Mar 2014

6 months

PHP 5.4, Zend Framework, PostGresSQL, Redis, Memcached, Varnish, AWS, Docker, Travis CI - Software maintenance: management of Kanban board, working with an offshore team of 4 - Participated in invoice system rewrite

.NET / iSeries developper

Eberhardt Freres

Sep 2010 - Oct 2013

3 years 2 months

Strasbourg Area, France

C#, VB.Net, DB2/400, IBM JCL, Windev, MS Access, VBA, Adelia L4G - Maintenance of existing (invoicing, accounting, logistics, quotation) programs on iSeries (AS400) - Maintenance of existing desktop software written in Windev: quotation tools for sales crew, customer/aftersales services helpdesk - Progressive migration of existing Windev software to .NET Internship that was converted to full-time position after graduation.


Education

IFIDE

Technical degree

2009 - 2011

2 years 1 month

Lycee Kleber

High school diploma

2001 - 2003

2 years 1 month

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