Damien Couchez
Senior Software Engineer at Algolia
Paris, Ile-de-France
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Top SchoolDamien Couchez is a Senior Software Engineer based in Paris with nine years of experience building performant PHP and TypeScript applications, specializing in Magento 1/2 and front-end integrations. At Algolia since 2018 he has focused on search infrastructure and API client work, contributing notable fixes and feature additions to widely used open-source projects including the algoliasearch PHP and JavaScript clients and the Magento 2 integration. His background blends backend engineering, API design, and pragmatic front-end skills from earlier roles in Magento and Drupal consultancies. Damien is comfortable working across the stack to improve indexing, error handling, and performance, and his contributions show an attention to edge cases like disabled-store indexing and price formatting. He combines engineering rigor from an IMAC multimedia education with hands-on product experience shipping developer-facing tools used by large platforms.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
2009, Multimedia, 2009, Multimedia at Ecole d'ingenieur IMAC (Image, Multimedia, Audiovisuel, Communication)
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Github Skills (14)
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javascript10
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algolia10
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magento10
apidoc10
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phpunit8
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Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
algolia/algoliasearch-magento-2
Apr 2018 - Dec 2021
Algolia Search integration for Magento 2 - compatible with versions from 2.3.x to 2.4.x
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:19 releases, 208 reviews, 164 commits in 3 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Damien primarily contributed to improving the indexing process and addressing potential issues related to Magento 2 integration with Algolia search. Their work included fixing page indexing from disabled stores, preventing unwanted data casting during product updates, and handling connection errors. The user also refactored aspects of the code, especially within the adapter and price management, and incorporated the handling of price slider formatting.
magento-2phpalgolia-searchmagento-algoliasearchmagento2
algolia/algoliasearch-client-php
Feb 2021 - Sep 2022
⚡️ A fully-featured and blazing-fast PHP API client to interact with Algolia.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 releases, 14 reviews, 39 commits in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Damien contributed to generating a PHP API Client based on a specification file, which involved generating and modifying PHP code, specifically related to model classes and API calls. The user added a test file for the generated PHP API client, demonstrating testing and usage. Further work included adding generated files from the splitted specifications.
api-clientapiblazingfaceted-searchphp
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