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whoami

• Clément Vannicatte, born in 1994, located in France, Arras.
• Husband of a wonderful wife, father of a little boy and dog.
• Native French speaker, fluent in English, hopefully in Japanese at some point.

hobbies

• Renovating a 1960 house
• Open-source, mostly neovim plugins
• Retro games and sneakers collector
• Music and movie enjoyer
• Aspiring woodworker
• Learning and understanding new things

education

(2016-2018) ~ Université Polytechnique Hauts-de-France

DEUST Informatique d’Organisation et Systèmes d’Information

(2018-2021) ~ 42

Architecte en technologie du Numérique, Fullstack developer

experiences

(2020-2024) ~ Algolia

I had the opportunity to:

• collaborating with the open-source community, especially core members of Laravel, Vue, Meta, Tailwind, Bootstrap, etc.
• design and build an ETL pipeline

(2020-2021) ~ Intern

Joined as a frontend engineer

• Implementing an image to attribute service to transform user provided images with ViSenze into an Algolia index
• Contributing to the e-commmerce open-source frontend libraries
  • Migrating the codebase to TypeScript
  • Implementing new widgets in the library
• Contributing to the open-source documentation scraper solution
  • Improving the Python web scraper
  • Working on the UI library new major version
  • Growing an open-source community by collaborating with open-source teams from Docusaurus, Vue.js, Tailwindcss, Bootstrap, React and much more.

Technologies: AWS, Angular, JavaScript, Node, Preact, Python, RabbitMQ, React (Hooks and HoC), Travis CI, TypeScript, Vue

(2021-2022) ~ Junior Software Engineer

Converting to fullstack engineer

• Implementing an API client in Python and JavaScript for Algolia Recommend
• Providing an UI components library for Algolia Recommend
• Migrating the open-source documentation scraper solution to the Algolia Crawler
  • Designing the migration of 4000+ users from the legacy custom scraper to the Algolia Crawler, with zero downtime
  • Implementing new indexing strategies, APIs and UI components in the existing Algolia Crawler infrastructure
  • Providing daily analytics and shadowing experiments summaries
  • Publishing a new public documentation website
  • Co-wrote a blog post with Meta’s Docusaurus blog post to communicate on the new features

Technologies: AWS, GCP, CircleCI, GitHub actions, JavaScript, Node, Preact, Python, RabbitMQ, React, TypeScript

(2022-2023) ~ Software Engineer

Converting to backend engineer

TODO

(2023-2024) ~ Senior Software Engineer

Still a backend engineer

TODO