Anthony Viard
Platform Engineer
Rennes, Brittany, France
Summary
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Top SchoolAnthony Viard is a Platform Engineer with 8 years of experience who blends a Java/JavaScript developer background with strong DevOps practices to design, automate and scale cloud-native platforms using Kubernetes, Kafka, CI/CD, observability and infrastructure as code. Based in Rennes, he builds reliable foundations that let product teams ship confidently—from pipelines to production, microservices to VMs—while prioritizing resilience and maintainability. An active open-source contributor and JHipster core team member, he has improved backend date/time handling and helped maintain the widely used JHipster generator and website, bringing real-world dev-experience to platform design. He has held roles from developer advocate and open-source tech lead to platform engineering, and also teaches—demonstrating an ability to communicate complex practices to engineers. Notably, he pairs pragmatic delivery with a tester’s attention to detail, ensuring time zone consistency and code quality in distributed systems.
8 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Développement informatique, Développement informatique at Groupe MédicisLDC Consulting
English, French
Github Skills (14)
html10
jhipster10
javas10
zone10
timezone10
hibernate10
website-development10
java10
spring-boot10
testing9
content-management9
content-management-system9
javascript8
css7
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
jhipster/generator-jhipster
Oct 2018 - Jan 2022
JHipster is a development platform to quickly generate, develop, & deploy modern web applications & microservice architectures.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:32 reviews, 354 commits, 179 PRs in 3 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Anthony primarily focused on enhancing the back-end functionality of the JHipster generator, specifically related to date and time handling. The commits involve configuring Hibernate to store timestamps in UTC, including adding unit tests for various date/time data types and refactoring code for better code quality and consistency. The user also addressed issues related to database configurations, ensuring time zone consistency across the JVM and the database.
development-platformyeoman-generatorgeneratormicroservicedocker
jhipster/jhipster.github.io
Mar 2019 - Nov 2021
Public website for JHipster - generates https://www.jhipster.tech
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:10 reviews, 43 commits, 32 PRs in 2 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Anthony primarily contributed to the website's content and layout, specifically focusing on updating links, adding new pages, and modifying existing elements. They added a new tech board page, updated the Entando description, and corrected npm link information. Their work also involved removing and reverting broken links, demonstrating a focus on maintaining the website's accuracy and functionality.
jhipster
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