William Gérald Blondel

Lead Developer

CreditBPO Tech Inc•  July 2022 - December 2023

• Reduce the number of critical daily application exceptions from 4,000 to 0 • Make our application over 110 times faster to generate a credit rating report • Identify and fix problems in mission-critical modules of our application • Educate junior developers on best practices • Legacy code base upgrade from Laravel 5.7 to Laravel 10 • Squarespace website migration from Squarespace version 7.0 to 7.1 • Development of new features, documentation update • Linux server administration (4 VMs) • Infrastructure migration from Digital Ocean to Azure and complete reconfiguration • Cloudflare configuration • Conduct technical interviews and review technical exams results • Conduct sales demonstrations • Improve developers’ experience by implementing various tools (Laravel Sail / Docker, Laravel Pint, pre-commit hooks…) • Sprint and release management (Jira) • Agile methodologies: daily stand-ups, sprint planning, retrospective meetings • Communicate with stakeholders to refine business requirements and define technical requirements

Senior Full Stack Web Developer

C Estates Inc•  February 2020 - April 2020

Fractional real estate investment platform through tokenized assets. • Development of new features (stack: PHP with Yii2 Framework / MySQL / Redis) • Optimize static assets and improve browser compatibility using Laravel Mix • Setup of a continuous deployment workflow in Bitbucket • Configuration of the servers to improve security and performance

Back-end web developer & Linux system administrator

William Gérald Blondel•  September 2015 - February 2020

• Website development with CakePHP 3, Symfony 4/5 & Laravel 4/5/6 • Web scraping with Python • Linux system administration: Debian / Ubuntu / CentOS • Docker container management • WordPress website management PHP | Python | Nginx | MariaDB | Postfix | Dovecot | BIND | Fail2Ban | rkhunter | SpamAssassin | ClamAV | ISPConfig | Plesk | & many more

At-Home and On-Site Computer Maintenance Services

William Gérald Blondel•  September 2014 - February 2020

• Installation and maintenance of computers, Hi-Fi systems, video games consoles • Software training (Microsoft Office suite, Adobe Acrobat, email clients, web browsers…) • 400+ clients (individuals and small businesses)

Chief Technology Officer

IndieGallery SAS•  July 2016 - December 2016

• Lead generation campaigns (emails with Yesware, Facebook and Instagram Ads, multiple landing pages and A/B testing) • Lead info scraping with custom Python scripts (use of Requests, BeautifulSoup, OAuth, XPath, and regular expressions) • Set up Google Analytics / MixPanel and Intercom using Google Tag Manager, on the main website (PrestaShop) and the landing pages • Optimize website's accessibility and content (SEO)

Co-Founder

EverCleanCar Ltd•  June 2015 - December 2016

A waterless and mobile car cleaning service. • Co-founder. • Developed the MVP website with the CakePHP and Bootstrap frameworks. • Designed and created the database (MariaDB) • PayPal API integration • Server management

Webmaster

Error404.fr•  May 2014 - December 2016

• Wordpress website management • Proofreading articles before publishing • Google AdWords campaign management • Google Analytics data analysis