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Matthieu Pons
Verified Expert in Engineering
Full-stack Developer
Matthieu is a full-stack software engineer with more than 15 years of hands-on experience in front- and back-end development. His solid focus on products led him to co-run a media agency and even build a startup. Always looking for challenging learning opportunities, Matthieu explored the machine learning space and wrote a fast and efficient recommender system still serving end users today.
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Preferred Environment
IntelliJ IDEA, MacOS
The most amazing...
...solution I've built from scratch, including the data pipeline and an API, is a recommender system that serves hundreds of thousands of recommendations a day.
Work Experience
Back-end PHP Developer
Yahoo! - Sports
- Worked on modernizing and refactoring PHP code to modern standards.
- Implemented new game mechanics for four different sports, notably the NFL, which has the highest number of players.
- Migrated internal services clients from using the custom cURL library to using the Guzzle library.
Senior Software Engineer
ReBuy
- Created ReBuy's recommendation system, from research to front-end implementation, now driving 9% of the total revenue.
- Led the integration of a 3rd-party provider, bringing a projected 1% additional revenue for 2021.
- Developed a warehouse processing time-prediction model that helped raise checkout CVR by 1%.
- Contributed to the customer-facing team, handling hundreds of thousands of sessions daily.
Co-founder
Poliscope
- Created a progressive web app showing hundreds of thousands of news and articles ranked by proximity within milliseconds.
- Provided access to hundreds of generated profiles of local political figures.
- Managed to integrate The Family, a French startup incubator program.
Partner and Technical Lead
Regularswitch
- Co-created and grew the agency from zero to seven employees.
- Budgeted, developed, and launched multiple web projects.
- Mentored and managed multiple junior and intern developers.
Full-stack Developer
Saint-Elmo's
- Created a tool to publish videos to multiple platforms simultaneously using their APIs.
- Built a tool to combine data analytics from multiple video platforms using data snapshots when official analytics weren't yet available.
- Contributed to developing multiple websites for some top German companies.
Full-stack Developer
Trafik
- Developed a permanent online and offline interactive art installation displayed on an LED wall and controlled online by users via a website.
- Participated in the research and development of physical art installations controlled by computers.
- Created multiple websites for local companies and artists.
Experience
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http://regularswitch.comSkills
Languages
PHP, HTML, CSS, PHP 7, HTML5, TypeScript, SCSS, JavaScript, Python, SQL, Java, Processing, Kotlin, C, C++, ActionScript 3, Perl
Frameworks
Symfony, Symfony 4, PHP MVC, Bootstrap, Angular, PHPUnit, Spring Boot, AngularJS, OpenFrameworks, Symfony 2, Symfony 3, Ionic 2, Laravel, Flask, CakePHP, Django
Libraries/APIs
REST APIs, Vue, NumPy, TensorFlow, Pandas, Scikit-learn, Keras, SDL, jQuery, YouTube API, Facebook API, Twitter API, Vimeo API, Vue 2, React
Platforms
MacOS, Apple, WordPress, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Linux, Docker
Other
Symphony, eCommerce, Full-stack, Web Development, Software Engineering, Full-stack Development, API Integration, Back-end Development, Algorithms, Symfony 5, Front-end, APIs, Agile Sprints, User Experience (UX), User Interface (UI), ChatGPT, Architecture, AI Chatbots, Networks, Symfony 6, PHP 8, Web Scraping, Webhooks, Back-end, Data Structures, Large Language Models (LLMs), GPT, Artificial Intelligence (AI), SaaS, Chatbots
Tools
IntelliJ IDEA, Solr, Figma, Google Analytics, Jira, Gensim, Webpack, Apache, Git, GitLab
Paradigms
REST, Search Engine Optimization (SEO), Kanban, Object-oriented Programming (OOP)
Storage
MySQL, Databases, PostgreSQL, Elasticsearch, Amazon S3 (AWS S3), MongoDB, NoSQL
Education
Engineer's Degree in Computer Science and Network Communication
CPE Lyon - Lyon, France
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science
IUT Lyon - Lyon, France
Certifications
Deep Learning Specialization
Coursera
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