Allan Simon
Senior Software Engineer at Just Ship It
Paris, Ile-de-France
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Top SchoolAllan Simon is a senior software engineer and seasoned technology leader with 16 years of experience building and scaling product-focused engineering organizations across startups and growth companies. He co-founded and led ROSALY to €10M in funding and 60 people while staying hands-on with DevOps, security (ISO 27001) and AI-driven customer support that now handles 80% of B2C tickets. Known for preferring "boring" pragmatic stacks, he specializes in turning chaotic delivery into reliable shipping, taming technical debt, and implementing repeatable infra (Terraform, CI/CD, AWS) at scale. His background spans CTO and senior engineering roles across fintech, legaltech, IoT and robotics, including running a 40TB IoT ingestion pipeline and leading open-source work on the widely used Tatoeba corpus. Based in Paris, he currently consults on software delivery and helps companies adopt practical AI solutions without the hype. Colleagues rely on him as the bridge between exec strategy and developer execution—comfortable both on the board and in the codebase.
17 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
International Master of Science, Information Technology, Master 2, Computer Science, International Master of Science, Information Technology, Master 2, Computer Science at SUPINFO
English, Chinese, French, Shanghainese, German
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Github Skills (13)
user-authentication10
cakephp10
php10
authentication10
user-registration10
symfony9
database-design7
command-line-interface6
go6
android6
swiftmailer6
python6
terraform6
Programming languages (27)
Github contributions (5)
Tatoeba/tatoeba2
Jun 2009 - Aug 2012
Tatoeba is a platform whose purpose is to create a collaborative and open dataset of sentences and their translations.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:508 commits, 14 comments, 1 issue in 3 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Allan's commits primarily focus on implementing features related to user authentication, registration, and profile management within the Tatoeba2 repository, modifying files within the app/controllers and app/models directories. The commits include changes to password display, registration validation, email verification, and access control using the Auth component, indicating a strong focus on building user-facing back-end functionalities. The commits also reflect work on code organization.
sentencetranslationtatoebadatabasecodebase
allan-simon/linthesia
Aug 2013 - May 2021
tentative to fix/rewrite linthesia , an open-source synthesia/ "piano-hero" like game
Contributions:131 commits, 9 PRs, 14 pushes in 7 years 10 months
fixgamesynthesiaheromusic
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