Florent Aide
CEO at XCG Consulting
Paris, Ile-de-France
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
Top SchoolFlorent Aide is a Paris-based CEO and seasoned software consultant with 17 years’ experience delivering financial and operational software, open-source tooling, and web services. He combines hands-on Python expertise (notably TurboGears and ongoing involvement in the Pyramid/Pylons community) with systems-level skills in networking, firewalling and bandwidth management, and ERP implementations. As founder of XCG Consulting and Notile, he has led teams building end-user GUIs for finance while managing projects at ALD Automotive and international clients. He also contributes to open-source projects in Go—improving mouse handling for Engo and enhancing database integration for shopspring/decimal—demonstrating cross-language versatility beyond his Python roots. Known for bridging product delivery and infrastructure, he pairs technical depth with practical business leadership.
17 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
DEUG, English, DEUG, English at Université Paris-Sorbonne
Github Skills (10)
databases10
mouse10
go10
entity-component-system10
game-engine10
data-integration10
sql-database10
entity-component10
testing10
opengl9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
EngoEngine/engo
Mar 2016 - Mar 2021
Engo is an open-source 2D game engine written in Go.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:39 commits, 4 PRs, 42 comments in 5 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Florent contributed to the Engo game engine, primarily focusing on mouse input handling and game logic. They implemented features such as handling left/right mouse clicks and button releases, improving the mouse component to track mouse position, and adding a method to center a SpaceComponent. Their work also included fixing bugs and refactoring existing code for better functionality.
golang2d-game2d-game-enginegame-developmentopengl
shopspring/decimal
Nov 2015 - Dec 2015
Arbitrary-precision fixed-point decimal numbers in Go
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 1 PR, 6 comments in 18 days
Contributions summary:Florent contributed to the `shopspring/decimal` repository, which focuses on arbitrary-precision fixed-point decimal numbers in Go. Their primary focus was enhancing the database integration of the `Decimal` type. They added support for the `Numeric` type, implemented a switch statement for different data types from the database, and improved the `Scan` method by returning nil instead of an empty error. Furthermore, the user added test cases for the `Scan` method to validate the implementation.
golangdecimalsarbitraryarbitrary-precisionpoint
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.