Arnaud Ferrand
Independent Consultant at Canopy Nexus Ltd
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolArnaud Ferrand is an independent consultant and seasoned software architect with over 20 years designing and scaling enterprise-grade systems across GIS, cloud, and mobile domains. He has held senior technical and leadership roles at what3words, ESRI France, and as CTO/Head of Engineering, combining hands-on engineering in Java, Python, React/React Native and AWS with strategic delivery and regulatory-aware product work in healthcare. At what3words he helped build core REST APIs and client wrappers in multiple languages and containerised development environments, while earlier ESRI experience means he brings deep mapping and spatial-data expertise to integration projects. He has a track record of launching platforms from inception—managing teams, budgets and cloud migrations—and recently runs his own consultancy optimising cloud architecture and modernising legacy estates. Comfortable moving between code, architecture and business strategy, he often serves as the bridge between technical teams and stakeholders to accelerate digital transformation. Based in London, he also contributes to open-source front-end mapping work, improving user experience and robustness under real-world API constraints.
12 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
IUP Ingéniérie des systèmes informatique Computer Science, IUP Ingéniérie des systèmes informatique Computer Science at Université Paul Sabatier Toulouse IIITheoretical and Mathematical Physics, Theoretical and Mathematical Physics at Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1
French, English, Spanish
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Github Skills (15)
apim10
javascript10
api10
front-end-development10
ui-design9
html9
uid9
json6
aws-lambda6
aws-apigateway6
nodejs6
serverless6
slack-api6
amazon-web-services6
rest6
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
stanleyhuangyc/Freematics
Mar 2021 - Mar 2021
Official source code repository for Freematics
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 1 PR in 11 days
Contributions summary:Arnaud primarily focused on enhancing the front-end functionality and user experience of the Freematics project. They implemented features such as reverse geocoding using the OpenCage API to display addresses on the map. Additionally, the user addressed error handling for the OpenCage API, including quotas, API key issues, and rate limits. Furthermore, the user formatted the code and corrected a typo to maintain code quality.
rp2040javascriptbluepillarduinodac
what3words/w3w-python-wrapper
May 2016 - May 2018
Python wrapper for the what3words API
Contributions:34 commits, 5 PRs, 30 pushes in 2 years
apipythonpython-wrapperwhat3words-apiwhat3words
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