Florent Cailhol
Senior Software Architect at Shotgun
Toulouse, Occitania, France
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Top SchoolFlorent Cailhol is a Senior Software Architect based in Toulouse with 14 years of experience building and leading engineering teams across media and web platforms. He blends hands-on core engineering—contributing to high-profile open-source projects like webpack and redux-form—with product and technical leadership roles including CTO and Technical Manager at AlloCiné/Webedia. Comfortable across front-end, back-end and tooling, he has improved parser logic, hook systems and build tooling while also shipping GraphQL servers, React/Redux frontends and performant ECS systems. Known for pragmatic refactors and performance-minded optimizations, he’s equally at home modernizing legacy codebases (ES6, tooling, linting) as designing new architectures. A former founder, he brings entrepreneurial initiative and a habit of improving developer workflows that often goes unnoticed behind visible product features.
14 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Mathematics and Computer Science, Mathematics and Computer Science at Université Paul Sabatier (Toulouse III)Licentiate degree, Computer Software Engineering, Licentiate degree, Computer Software Engineering at IUP Ingénierie des Systèmes Informatiques
English, French
Stackoverflow
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symfony
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redux
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apache-flex
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php
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javascript
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Github Skills (75)
ec10
testing10
gruntjs10
resolver10
build-automation10
symfony-ux10
linter10
refactoring10
javascript10
formatter10
bundle10
api10
formatters10
performance-optimization10
wordpress-graphql10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
rome/tools
Mar 2020 - Jul 2020
Unified developer tools for JavaScript, TypeScript, and the web
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:74 commits, 44 PRs, 4 pushes in 3 months
Contributions summary:Florent contributed to the `rome/tools` repository by implementing and fixing various features related to JavaScript, TypeScript, and web development tools. This included improvements to code generation, JSON parsing, and type checking. The user also added a new lint rule and modified existing rules and diagnostic descriptions, showing involvement in the codebase's quality and functionality.
linterjavascriptdeveloper-toolstoolchainjavascript-typescript
webpack/webpack
Dec 2017 - Dec 2018
A bundler for javascript and friends. Packs many modules into a few bundled assets. Code Splitting allows for loading parts of the application on demand. Through "loaders", modules can be CommonJs, AMD, ES6 modules, CSS, Images, JSON, Coffeescript, LESS, ... and your custom stuff.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:272 commits, 241 PRs, 168 pushes in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Florent contributed to the core functionality of the webpack bundler, specifically by implementing and testing bitwise and exponential operations within the parsing logic. They also improved the testing framework by enhancing the `PluginEnvironment` helper, allowing for more comprehensive testing of plugins that leverage the hook system. Additionally, the user removed a redundant hash from the source map to improve performance and fixed an issue related to the use of a "this" variable.
amdloaderscode-splittingcustom-stuffcompiler
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