Armand Fardeau
Backend Team Lead At GoldAvenue at GOLD AVENUE
Paris, Ile-de-France, Switzerland
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Top SchoolArmand Fardeau is a backend team lead and seasoned Ruby on Rails engineer with nine years of experience building scalable web and mobile platforms for fintech and civic-tech organizations. Currently leading backend efforts at GoldAvenue, he guided a migration to React, launched a mobile app, and drove performance optimizations that supported rapid business growth. Previously he led engineering at Open Source Politics, migrating legacy systems to Kubernetes and contributing as a full-stack developer to Decidim, a well-known participatory democracy framework. Comfortable across DevOps, QA, and system administration, he blends hands-on coding with team mentorship and product-focused delivery. A DIY and Ruby enthusiast, he pairs practical open‑source contributions with a background spanning UX research, IoT education, and startup founding—bringing uncommon breadth to technical leadership.
9 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
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French, English
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Github Skills (17)
git10
testing10
rails10
backend10
ruby-on-rails10
ruby9
css9
html9
frontend8
par8
javascript8
server6
rspec6
stimulusjs6
networking6
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
decidim/decidim
Aug 2018 - Jun 2022
The participatory democracy framework. A generator and multiple gems made with Ruby on Rails
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:25 reviews, 92 commits, 118 PRs in 3 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Armand primarily contributed to bug fixes and feature enhancements within the Ruby on Rails framework. Their work included implementing validations and tests for accountability progress, integrating compression settings for image uploads, adding translations for profile notifications, and adding links to user profiles and conversations. They also addressed issues related to collaborative drafts and survey components, showing expertise in the application's front-end and back-end functionalities.
participatory-democracycivic-techgovernmentdemocracyparticipation
OpenSourcePolitics/nlp_preprocessing
Sep 2021 - Feb 2023
Part of OSP Toolbox. Preprocessing micro service for Decidim contribution export.
Contributions:2 reviews, 31 commits, 18 PRs in 1 year 6 months
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