# Fullstack Software Engineer - Nicolas GERARD ![Nico](//img/profile-2286591f6f6201e1.jpg) Nicolas [](mailto:\g\e\r\a\r\d\n\i\c\o\@\g\m\a\i\l\.\c\o\m "Email Me") [](https://github.com/gerardnico "My Work on GitHub") [](https://www.linkedin.com/in/gerardnico "Connect on Linkedin") [](https://calendly.com/gerardnico/30min "Schedule a time that works for you") [](https://maps.app.goo.gl/G5UG8UkrLKKQgTR66 "Where I live, Oegstgeest (Netherlands Randstad)") Ask AI Open As Table of Contents * [Characteristics](#characteristics) * [Portfolio](#portfolio) * [Projects / Employments](#projects) * [Skills Set](#skills) * [Languages](#languages) * [Interests](#interests) * [Education](#educations) * [Certificates](#certificates) # Fullstack Software Engineer Deploy quickly with confidence and delight your stakeholders with great user experience Experienced full-stack software engineer with 10+ years building applications. Founded Bytle, delivering products across frontend, backend and infrastructure. Spreading its knowledge on Datacadamia. Enjoy working on solutions with high impact. The entire resume is a Graph of 426 nodes. A click on a link opens a node. ## Characteristics Me in 3 points ### T-shaped Engineer Computer science enthusiast. Tackled a broad range of complex real-world problems across frontend , backend , infrastructure , data engineering and business intelligence . ### Give a damn High agency. Relentless result-driven with a high creativity on solutions. Being idle while waiting for a never-coming answer is not in my nature. ### Clear Model Builder Deep ERP modeling expertise , capable of building clear models , spotting inconsistencies, understanding interconnections and trade-offs (Intractable problems find their source in bad models) ## Portfolio Show, don't tell For the full list, check the [portfolio page](/portfolio "/portfolio") ### Interact Front-end architecture Build Interact , a React Server Component framework built on top of Vite and RollDown showing a strong understanding of front-end architecture. ### Smtp Server Server-side technology Developed a SMTP server showing a strong understanding of backend technology not only on the Application layer (Web) but also at the Transport layer (TCP) ### Kubee Architecture and application deployment Built Kubee , a Kubernetes client framework that install idempotently a cluster, a full prometheus monitoring system and deploy apps in one command. ## Projects / Employments Curated Projects For the full list, choose the [work positions project layout](/software-engineer?project-layout=work\&project-relations=discipline-software-engineer#projects "/software-engineer?project-layout=work\&project-relations=discipline-software-engineer#projects") Projects Layout : Curated SelectionAll Projects by Work PositionsAll Projects by Competency Periods ### Multi-tenant Mailing List Application Software Engineer  - Bytle GraphQLJavaPostgresReactRestSlate EditorSmtpVertxVite Developed a multi-tenant mailing list application: * Build a 2 steps subscription flow with domain check and signed validation link * Developed the execution worker with MTA DNS Lookup (Dkim) * Designed a multi-tenant data model, rest api (forms subscription) and graphql api (admin page) * Build the front-end (parent/child relationship) * Developed the rich text editor ### React Rsc Server Frontend Engineer  - Bytle JsxMdMdxNodeJsReactTypescriptUnifiedVite Developed the React Rsc server Interact. * Designed the middleware chain to handle both HTTP and/or a React response allowing CMS integration * Developed a document API to serve compiled modules (mdx, jsx, tsx) and runtime react component (md, cms tree). * Built the plugins engine - react component (layout, content, context) and markdown unified plugins ### Ansible to Kubernetes migration Platform Engineer  - Bytle AnsibleArgoCdBashDockerGrafanaHelmJsonnetKubernetesKustomizePrometheusTerraform Migration of infrastructure from a Ansible push model to a Kubernetes pull model * Created the Kubee cli to install the cluster and deploy Helm charts (with embedded Jsonnet and Kustomize project) * Installation of the monitoring system - Prometheus , Grafana on server, cluster and app level with a dead man switch * Built devops release pipelines on top of Github workflow and ArgoCd * Designed the secret management pipeline (pass, terraform, vault and external secret) ## Skills Set Tools and technologies Skills Set : Curated SelectionAll Skills Backend AuthN , ExpressJs , FastAPI , GraphQL , Http , Java , Modeling , NodeJs , Python , Rest , Vertx Broker Kafka , RabbitMQ , Redis Cloud Aws , Azure , Gcp Computer Science Ai , Algorithms , Compiler , Compression , Crypto , Event Loop , Iam , Languages Crypto Hash , Signature (Symmetric/Asymmetric) , Trust Models (PKI, Acme) Data Science Ai , Data Viz , Notebooks , Python , R Lang Databases Clickhouse , MySQL , Oracle , Postgres , Redis , Sap Hana , Sql Server , SQLite Frontend Html , Javascript , JQuery , Jsx , React , Seo , Slate Editor , Svg , Typescript , Vite Iam AuthN , Jwt , Oauth/Oidc , Trust Models (PKI, Acme) Performance Algorithms , Compression , Data Structures , Modeling , Query Plan Platform Ansible , ArgoCd , Dns , Docker , Grafana , Iam , Kubernetes , Prometheus , Ssh , Terraform Data Structures Avro , Collections , Compiler , Graph , Json , Mdx , Parquet , Spatial , Svg , Table , Text , Xml ## Education Degrees and diplomas ### 1997/98 - Master - Production and Computer Engineering University of Bordeaux  - With honors ### 1994/96 - Bachelor - Industrial Engineering with Production specialization University of Burgundy  - With satisfactory honors ## Certificates The papers Data Mining with Weka Linear Algebra Scalable Machine Learning (CS190.1x) Big Data with Apache Spark (CS100.1x) Statistical Learning with R ## Interests And Hobbies Games Chess, Rugby Reading Computer Science, Product Design, Psychology Sports Running, Skiing, Swimming ## Languages Lost in Translation Dutch( Fluent ) English( Fluent ) French( Native Speaker )