Florent Machen - web developer in Lille

Hi, It's me!

Hi there! My name is Florent, I have a wife and a son (almost always adorable). I'm a Web Developer at KaraFun Group.

I have over 10 years of experience as a software engineer, and have worked at both small startups and large organizations. While I'm a proficient full-stack developer, my expertise is in building web application and backend services (Data structures, API services, stream processing, and async mechanisms).

I like building things. While hard engineering problems are often intrinsically fun to tackle, I'm most attracted to solving real customer problems with a business justification.

Highlights

Working on ecommerce sites making millions of views, millions of turnover, millions of API request. It's amazing what's behind all this. And beautiful.
Build a natural language processing system based on hidden Markov model to extract named entity from a french text. IA powa :)
Migrate and process a phenomenal amount of data of any kind for AN, ANOM, BnF, SACEM, Universal, EMI ... Data is the center of everything, it is the most important. The code is at the service of the data.
I worked on the first mobile site of LCI so long ago and MYTF1 website/app.
Reached the guru rank on CodinGame.

My personal interests include:

Software Craftmanship. Agile software development, TDD, Clean Code, Clean Architecture, refactoring.
Data. storage, indexing, search, processing, visualization.
Economy and finance. ...

Representative terms

Pragmatic.
S.M.A.R.T.
Get things done.
Team player.
Back to basics.

Technical Skills

I've worked with a wide variety of programming languages (from xsl to R passing by ruby).

Main languages: PHP, HTML, CSS, JS, SQL, Python.
Soft skills: Empathy, Communication, Approachability and Helpfulness, Patience, Open-mindedness, Curiosity, Problem solving, Creativity.

Other Things

Read a book of "non fiction" a month for years.
Participates in meetup for years.

See my LinkedIn profile for more career details.