Aurélien David
Fondateur
Paris, Ile-de-France
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolAurélien David is an engineering manager and former CTO with 13 years building scalable web platforms and APIs, now leading engineering at Pennylane from Paris. A Symfony, React and GraphQL specialist, he co-founded Billy and contributed to widely used open-source GraphQL tooling (overblog/GraphQLBundle), improving Relay support and schema robustness. He has driven product and infrastructure at scale—running SaaS for 100+ customers, hiring and growing teams, and delivering national participatory platforms for the French government. Regular trainer and speaker, he also consults on GraphQL for enterprise clients like Christian Dior and teaches microservices and GraphQL in academia. Beyond management he remains a hands-on engineer and creator (GraphQLHero) who balances civic-minded work with playful personal projects and bass guitar on the side.
13 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
M2 Intelligence numérique - Mention Réalité virtuelle, M2 Intelligence numérique - Mention Réalité virtuelle at EFREI - Grande école du numérique
English
Github Skills (12)
relayer10
graphql10
php10
wordpress-graphql10
wpgraphql10
symfony10
symfony-ux10
relay10
testing9
symfony-bundle9
api9
graphql-php8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
overblog/GraphQLBundle
Nov 2017 - Aug 2019
This bundle provides tools to build a complete GraphQL API server in your Symfony App.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 6 PRs, 1 issue in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:Aurélien contributed to the GraphQL bundle by fixing issues related to custom names in relay connections and mutations. They improved the schema by addressing formatting issues and adding unit tests for multiple schema scenarios. Furthermore, the user implemented support for inheritance in the relay processor, enhancing its functionality and functionality while preserving order.
graphql-apisymfonygraphqlrelayrelay-network-layer
cap-collectif/cap-collectif
Mar 2015 - Jan 2023
Cap Collectif is a a fully customizable online platform integrating 10 different tools, each dedicated to a specific participatory process.
Contributions:5936 commits, 2 PRs, 575 pushes in 8 years
reactonline-platformphpdedicatedats
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