Axel Venet
Lead Developer Backend at Mata Capital
Paris, Ile-de-France
Summary
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RockstarAxel Venet is a Lead Backend Developer based in Paris with 11 years of hands-on experience building web platforms, APIs and production infrastructure. He has moved between hands-on engineering and people leadership roles—most recently as Head of Engineering at Wamiz and now leading backend at Mata Capital—while continuously contributing to and running open-source game projects like Asylamba and Kalaxia. Technically fluent in Symfony, Go, Docker and PostgreSQL, he designs resilient architectures (including PHP daemons and WebSocket servers) and has strong experience with CI/CD, monitoring and performance for high-traffic, SEO-sensitive sites. Axel pairs product-minded engineering with team coaching and recruitment, having acted as product owner on community-driven projects and mentored junior contributors. He values impact-driven missions and keeps expanding his skill set beyond code through product reading and cross-discipline practice. A practical builder who often bridges volunteer community work and professional delivery, he brings both entrepreneurial ownership and proven delivery at scale.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
English, Spanish, vieux français (842-ca.1400)
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (89)
spatial10
migrate10
relational10
bundle10
nette10
api10
mapper10
realtime-api10
authorization10
control-library10
symfony10
templating10
twig-extension10
template-engine10
server-sent-events10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
CitadelTechnologies/budget-manager
Sep 2015 - May 2018
Contributions:24 PRs, 25 pushes, 23 branches in 2 years 8 months
golangapiapi-managerbudgetbudget-manager
Kalaxia/v2-api
Apr 2020 - Oct 2021
V2 game API written in Rust
Contributions:10 reviews, 101 PRs, 248 pushes in 1 year 6 months
rustapigame-api
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