François-Xavier Degroot Email & Phone Number

Montréal, Québec, Canada

Leadership:-Led a department of 15 backend developers-Hired new team members-Forecasted the department allocation -Estimated new project workloadTechnical:-Built technical architecture tailored to our customers in respect to their requirements and budget-Built a scalable platform to connect a leading streaming platform to ecommerce channels in Shopify-Developed HA API Integrations with Shopify stores-Developed headless Shopify integration with Nuxt 3-Programming languages : Ruby, Typescript-Frameworks : Ruby on Rails, Nuxt.JS-Cloud Services (AWS) : ECS, RDS, Elasticache, Lambda, SQS, SNS, Eventbridge, S3-Cloud Services (GCP) : Cloud Run, App Engine, Cloud Function, Cloud Tasks, Load Balancer, Memorystore. Cloud SQL-Databases : MySQL, PostgreSQL-IaC : Terraform-CI : Github Actions-Logging & Monitoring : Sentry, Datadog

Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Région De Montréal, Canada

-Led a team of 15 individuals: frontend developers, backend developers, QA analysts and dev ops-Recruited of new employees-Built a training program for our employees-Created our new local development stack based on Docker-Set up our new QA Automation strategy-Defined our new infrastructure based on GCP-Created our new CI using Jenkins and subsequent modules-Defined our new deployment strategy-Worked with the following GCP services : Compute Engine, K8S Cluster

-Recruited senior PHP developers-Led the internal development team of Ubisoft+ (new subscription-based model)-Defined and implemented a new micro-service based architecture on AWS-Created PHP SDKs based on Symfony 4 Framework-Built AWS Lambda functions in PHP and Node JS-Worked with the following AWS services : S3, Lambda, CodeBuild, CodeDeploy, CloudFormation

Région De Montréal, Canada

-Developed the new payment platform based on PHP Symfony 4 Framework

Région De Montréal, Canada

Région De Montréal, Canada

-Successfully worked on 20+ Magento 1 & 2 websites-Responsible of the backend development team-Managed a team of 7 developers-Estimated production costs-Wrote technical specifications-Coached other team members-Owned and helped the implemented new production processes (code review, automated deployments) -Developed integrated search modules within Magento based on Lucene (SOLR and ElasticSearch)-Developed custom Magento 2 modules-Developed our own Magento 2 module collection and integrated them using composer-Set up complete local development machines using vagrant-Spoke at MTL + Ecommerce conference and in universities

Région De Montréal, Canada

Zürich

-Developed and maintained our Magento projects-Wrote automated tests on Hybris websites-Set up of an ERP connection using a second database inside Magento-Optimized performance of existing websites-Participated in client workshops-Pre-sales-Coached developers

Amsterdam

-Successfully developed high-traffic ecommerce and news websites-Developed and maintained our projects powered with the Magento framework-Created specific reusable Magento modules for our customers-Defined code-related strategies for performance optimization-Configured Apache and Varnish VCLs-Developed Drupal websites-Developed eZpublish websites-Coached junior developers

Le Mans

-Wrote technical specifications and user documentation-Developed a web application using Symfony 1.4

Québec, Canada

-Developed an internal application with C# / ASP.NET 3.0 and SQL Server

Le Mans

-Developed an internal application using Delphi 7

Master In Computer Science, Information Technology

Bachelor In Computer Science, Information Technology