Alan Poulain
Engineer Lead Developer at Les-Tilleuls.coop
Paris, Ile-de-France
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Top SchoolAlan Poulain is an Engineer Lead Developer based in Paris with 11 years of experience building full-stack web applications using PHP, Symfony and modern JavaScript (React). As a core team member and contributor to API Platform—adding GraphQL support and MongoDB components—he blends deep backend expertise with frontend polish, having improved admin UIs and implemented custom React layouts in flagship repos. At Les-Tilleuls.coop he leads projects as a Symfony/React expert and has a history of delivering robust rewrites and modular architectures for companies like My Little Paris and Geneanet. His open-source work includes notable contributions to api-platform/core and react-admin, where he fixed complex form and serialization issues and added GraphQL query/mutation features. Comfortable across APIs, serialization, and UX, he also writes documentation and tests, showing attention to developer experience and long-term maintainability. Colleagues can count on him for pragmatic design decisions that bridge API design, frontend ergonomics, and production-grade backends.
11 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Classes Préparatoires aux Grandes Écoles (PCSI - PC), Classes Préparatoires aux Grandes Écoles (PCSI - PC) at Lycée Saint-LouisEngineer's degree, Computer Science, specialism in Software Engineering, Engineer's degree, Computer Science, specialism in Software Engineering at ENSEIRB-MATMECA
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Github Skills (41)
api-platform10
javascript10
apidoc10
hydra10
jes10
typescript10
material-ui10
wpgraphql10
php10
api10
front-end-development10
jestjs10
wordpress-graphql10
typescript-types10
symfony10
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
api-platform/admin
Oct 2017 - Dec 2022
A beautiful and fully-featured administration interface builder for hypermedia APIs
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:101 reviews, 169 commits, 197 PRs in 5 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Alan contributed to the development of the admin interface, specifically focusing on the integration with a Hydra API. They enhanced the `hydraClient` to correctly handle data responses and implemented unit tests for the `GET_MANY` resource functionality. The user added a logo and theming to the admin interface and updated custom layout configurations to improve the user interface. Additionally, the user made code style improvements to ensure a consistent code base.
json-ldapiapi-platformhypermediaadmin
api-platform/demo
Feb 2019 - Aug 2022
Demo app for the API Platform framework
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:14 reviews, 21 commits, 52 PRs in 3 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Alan primarily contributed to the frontend, implementing custom layouts and UI components, including a login form. They also modified backend files related to a Mercure integration. The user's work involved integrating React components, including the implementation of a custom AppBar and Logo. Additionally, they made changes to configuration and data access files, indicating involvement with API Platform's overall setup.
apiapi-platformreactdemo-appmercure
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