
Thibaud Fabre
Freelance - Lead Developer
Salary / Daily rate
Paris, France
Freelance
Remote only
Skills
Languages
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.
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