Emilien Ah-kiem
Software Engineer, Lead Frontend at LITA.co
Louvilliers-lès-Perche, Centre-Val de Loire, France
Summary
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Top SchoolEmilien Ah-kiem is a seasoned software engineer with 13 years of experience, currently leading frontend development at LITA.co with a strong belief that "performance is a feature." He brings full‑stack fluency and a pragmatic focus on maintainable, well‑tested architectures, with deep expertise in Clojure/ClojureScript, React/TypeScript, Ruby on Rails and backend integration. At Gybe he bootstrapped a future‑proof mapping product (GybeMaps) using ClojureScript, Re-frame and mapping libraries while setting up CI/CD and recruiting fellow engineers. He has contributed backend improvements to the notable Open Food Network project, tackling Xero invoice generation and test environment robustness. Comfortable in small, remote international teams, Emilien pairs hands‑on coding with mentoring and product thinking from prior roles in education and civic tech. An avid learner and polyglot developer, he favors modular designs and pragmatic tooling choices to ship durable user-facing systems.
13 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
AshokauIMT Mines AlbiLifelong learningEcole des Mines de Douai
French, English, German
Github Skills (14)
ruby10
spreed10
rspec10
ruby-rails10
spree10
rails10
test-automation10
postgresql9
nco3
arm3
harvest3
np3
npr3
f3
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
openfoodfoundation/openfoodnetwork
Dec 2015 - Apr 2017
Connect suppliers, distributors and consumers to trade local produce.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:15 commits, 7 PRs, 26 comments in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Emilien primarily focused on backend improvements, specifically related to Xero invoice generation and the test environment setup. They implemented features to pre-fill invoice dates and adjusted due dates within the Xero invoice reports. Additionally, the user modified the test environment configuration to force the English locale and control JavaScript test executions. Furthermore, they modified the model to associate created users with existing customers.
farmersdistributorsrailsnonprofitfood
WildCodeSchool/lrthw
Apr 2015 - Nov 2015
Contributions:4 commits, 3 pushes, 1 branch in 6 months
ruby-on-railsruby-gemrailswildruby
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