Aurélien 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
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bac S Svt, Bac S Svt at Lycée Teilhard de Chardin
M2 Intelligence numérique - Mention Réalité virtuelle, M2 Intelligence numérique - Mention Réalité virtuelle at EFREI - Grande école du numérique
This bundle provides tools to build a complete GraphQL API server in your Symfony App.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions: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.
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Aurélien David - Engineering Manager at Spyl Consulting