Summary
Emilien Brigand is a seasoned back-end developer with 13 years’ experience building high-throughput, event-driven Java systems and microservices, particularly using Vert.x, Spring Boot, Elasticsearch and Kubernetes. He has led technical efforts in finance, e-commerce and government projects—designing Spring Boot starters at FDJ, optimizing search and low-latency APIs at Tesco, and modernizing legacy ATS platforms. Comfortable across the DevOps toolchain, he routinely implements CI/CD, monitoring and cloud deployments on AWS/GCP/Azure, and has hands-on expertise with Docker, GitLab, Jenkins and Grafana. Emilien blends pragmatic architecture with developer ergonomics, advocating light agile processes and thoughtful multi-module Git organization to tame microservice complexity. Not always obvious from his title: he pairs deep systems-level skills (non-blocking/reactive Java, batch processing, Camel) with a taste for travel and cross-border teamwork, having worked with distributed teams across UK, Poland and India. Based in Rennes, he favors practical, time-saving tooling choices—he credits Spring Boot with cutting development time by up to 40% while acknowledging the trade-offs of microservice adoption.
13 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
DEUG, MIAS, DEUG, MIAS at Université de Rennes 1 (University of Rennes 1)
Master, Computer science, Master, Computer science at Université de Bretagne Occidentale (University of Brest)
English