Flavien Laurent is a pragmatic Lead Developer and Practice Lead with 13 years of professional experience and a 15-year background in full‑stack development, currently steering CoreHR and payroll platform delivery at SD Worx France. He combines hands-on Java/JEE and Spring Boot expertise with modern cloud-native practices—microservices, Kubernetes, PostgreSQL and GitLab CI/CD—while coaching a 15‑developer international team on code quality, testing and architecture. Previously he led a migration from a legacy monolith to multiple microservices and founded an e‑commerce hardware startup where he handled everything from mold 3D modeling to SEO that grew traffic to 100k monthly visitors. An Android contributor in his spare time, he’s improved UI/UX and compatibility in notable open-source projects like datetimepicker and NotBoringActionBar, revealing attention to front-end polish as well as backend resilience. Known for blending product-minded pragmatism with recruitment and tooling skills, he thrives on turning complex HR/payroll requirements into reliable, testable systems. Located in Riom, France, he brings entrepreneurial grit and a taste for UI animations and accessible design that often goes beyond typical backend lead roles.
13 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Engineering degree, Information technology and networks, Engineering degree, Information technology and networks at École Supérieure d'Ingénieurs Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée, ESIPE.
DUT, Information technology, DUT, Information technology at IUT Paris Descartes
DateTimePicker is a library which contains the beautiful DatePicker that can be seen in the new Google Agenda app.
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (Android)
Contributions:54 commits in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Flavien primarily contributed to the `datetimepicker` library, focusing on Android-specific UI and functionality. Their work involved fixing compatibility issues with older Android versions, resolving conflicts, and implementing features like closing the date/time pickers on a single tap. They also addressed bugs related to year range limits and ensured proper accessibility support within the dialogs.
Contributions summary:Flavien primarily contributed to the Android application's UI and visual aspects. They introduced a Ken Burns animation for image display, optimized the existing code, and improved the display of the Action Bar title. Additionally, the user modified the ParallaxImageView class to improve user experience.
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Flavien Laurent - Lead Developer Practice Lead at SD Worx France