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AUSY

Full-Stack Web Developer — 2010 – 2013 — Full-Time On-Site

AUSY is a predominant software engineering company in Sophia-Antipolis technopole. Hired to develop a product from scratch in PHP using Diem project. Then went on different missions.

Client: Doctissimo — 10 months (2012–2013)

  • Complete redesign of BE.com: HTML5/LESS, PHP, SQL PerconaDB, Sphinx search engine; website was part of a lot sold for around 18M€
  • Migration of libraries to jQuery across the entire Community Framework stack
  • Refactoring & recommendations for Core components of their internal SDK for PHP, MySQL, jQuery
  • High Availability, High Volume in mind

Added Value

Doctissimo wasn't a typical client engagement — it was working at the heart of one of France's biggest content portals, where every line of code had to survive at scale:

  • Direct contribution to an 18M€ asset sale. The BE.com redesign I worked on was part of a portfolio sold for around 18M€. Touching code that ends up in an M&A transaction is a strong forcing function for quality and reliability.
  • High-volume, high-availability discipline. Doctissimo's traffic profile meant that "it works on my machine" was meaningless. Every refactoring had to consider PerconaDB query plans, Sphinx indexing windows, cache invalidation, and graceful degradation. This is where I learned to think in terms of percentiles, not averages.
  • Refactoring a live SDK without breaking consumers. The Community Framework was used by multiple sites internally. Recommending and implementing changes to its core PHP/MySQL/jQuery components meant treating backwards compatibility as a hard requirement and migrations as first-class deliverables — a mindset I still apply when designing libraries today.
  • Library migration as a strategic move. Migrating the entire stack to jQuery wasn't just a tech swap; it was modernising the entire frontend toolchain so the team could move faster on features afterwards. The kind of invisible work that pays dividends for years.

PHP HTML LESS/CSS jQuery PerconaDB Sphinx

Client: INERIS — 5 months (2011–2012)

  • Design & development of a G2B application following a law decree (Ministry of Environment)
  • Developing a dedicated state-machine framework bindable to Doctrine (ORM)
  • Unit & E2E testing functional cases
  • Functional specification and implementation guide documentation

PHP Symfony Doctrine Bootstrap MySQL Selenium

Client: Confidential — 9 months (2010–2011)

  • Design & development of a B2B2C multi-profile e-Tourism application for selling access tickets to public and private monuments (e.g. Villa Rothschild) along historical pathways (e.g. Route de Napoléon). Profiles: Admin, Hotel, Private Monument
  • Barcode generation and testing with barcode readers
  • Functional specification and implementation guide documentation

PHP Diem CMF MySQL Linux

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