LAURENT STEMMER : software developer

Location: Paris, France
Email: laurent.stemmer@gmail.com

[Strengths]

• 16+ years of professionnal experience with Java, Ruby, building:
  • Robust backend, database-heavy services
  • Web applications.
  • Middleware services using message queues, web services
• Building strong relationship with my co-workers and managers
• Leading developers from different countries, providing technical guidance
• Reading and experiencing a lot about trending technologies
• Project management
• {DDD, CQRS, ES} FTW
• Empathy
• Love mentoring
• Love being mentored

[Education]

• Master Professionnel Ingénierie Logiciel pour l'Internet, University Jean Perrin, Lens, France (2007)

[Work History]

• Lead developer - Weekendesk.com (January 2015, Now)

  • Big startup specialized in online travel
  • Lead developer of six man team
  • Building microservices that strangle legacy system
  • Domain driven mindset
  • No compromises over quality
  • Road to the cloud
  • Responsible of hiring my team
  • Beers 🍺🍺🍺

• Lead developer - Monsieurdrive.com (November 2013, January 2015)

  • Young startup specialized in online groceries shopping
  • Lead developer of four man team
  • Urbanised the code
  • Increased the performance of the front-end website of 150%
  • Introduced Agile for project management
  • Improved development workflow, by introducing code reviews and usage of git-flow
  • Beers 🍺🍺🍺

• Lead developer - NextEdia, former Come&Stay (January 2011, October 2013)

  • Growing technology and marketing company based in France
  • Build contact management and extraction system for emailing campaigns
  • Developed a real time retargeting system sending marketing emails to new visiters tracked on advertisers websites
  • Managing international team
  • Introduced better software development tools and best-practices such as test-driven development and staged deployment environments
  • Responsible of hiring my team, composed of french and polish talents
  • Beers 🍺🍺🍺

• Software developer - Lafarge France (Oct 2007, December 2010)

  • Third Party Maintenance of the ticketing software deployed on french and greek carriers :
    • Development
    • QA
    • Training of the end users
    • Support
  • Development of a web portal for managing inventory on deposits and quarries France.
  • Beers 🍺🍺🍺

• Junior software developer (Internship) - Altendis (2007)

  • Developed and maintained an e-learning platform
  • Beers 🍺🍺🍺

[ Personal facts ]

• Teaching programming languages
• Playing guitar and reading
• Beers 🍺🍺🍺