Fabien Ménager
Lead Developer at repply
Greater La Rochelle Area France
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Top SchoolFabien Ménager is a seasoned Lead Developer with 16 years of experience based in the Greater La Rochelle area, focused on improving user experience and developer productivity. He combines hands-on backend expertise—especially in PHP libraries like dompdf, php-svg-lib and php-font-lib—with database-focused contributions to FluentMigrator, including Oracle enhancements and SQL execution features. At repply he leads development while his prior decade at OpenXtrem had him architecting and optimizing a medical framework (Mediboard) and its UI/performance. Fabien is practical and detail-oriented, having implemented complex SVG parsing, advanced font subsetting and PDF rendering fixes that reveal a knack for geometric algorithms and edge-case handling. He holds a Master 2 in Computer Science from La Rochelle Université and brings a rare mix of systems-level thinking and developer-facing polish.
16 years of coding experience
DUT Génie Eléctrique et Informatique Industrielle, Electrical Engineering Technologies/Technicians, DUT Génie Eléctrique et Informatique Industrielle, Electrical Engineering Technologies/Technicians at IUT AngoulêmeMaster 2, Informatique, Master 2, Informatique at La Rochelle Université
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Github Skills (44)
javascript10
fonts10
oracles10
paths10
net10
dotnet10
asp-net10
php10
svg10
oracle10
parsing10
sql10
database-design10
pdf-generation10
compression10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
dompdf/php-svg-lib
Apr 2014 - Sep 2019
SVG file parsing / rendering library
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 releases, 41 commits, 18 PRs in 5 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Fabien made significant contributions to the `dompdf/php-svg-lib` repository, focusing on enhancing the SVG parsing and rendering capabilities. They implemented support for advanced SVG features like groups, arc curves, repeating paths, and HSL colors, which involved modifying the `Path.php` file to handle complex path commands and geometric calculations. Furthermore, they added a `CPdf` surface, providing an alternative rendering backend and fixing issues related to ellipses, transformations, and style inheritance to improve the PDF generation process.
pdfsvgphpparsingrendering
dompdf/php-font-lib
Jul 2011 - Jan 2020
A library to read, parse, export and make subsets of different types of font files.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:4 releases, 99 commits, 20 PRs in 8 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Fabien primarily contributed to the development and improvement of a font library focused on reading, parsing, exporting, and subsetting font files. Their work included the implementation and enhancement of classes for parsing and encoding different font formats such as TrueType, OpenType and WOFF. They also added support for generating Adobe Font Metrics files and created tools for font subsetting based on user input.
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