Florent Hobein
Engineering Director Platform Team
Greater Paris Metropolitan Region France
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Top SchoolFlorent Hobein is an engineering director focused on scaling developer experience, internal tooling and design systems, with 11 years of experience across product teams and platform leadership. Based in Greater Paris, he has grown through hands-on engineering and management roles at padoa—moving from full‑stack tech lead to Engineering Director of the Platform Team—while cofounding multiple startups earlier in his career. He blends product sensibility with technical depth, having implemented and stabilized front-end components such as modal interception logic in the popular ngx-bootstrap library. Comfortable shipping both product features and platform capabilities, he excels at turning developer pain points into reliable internal tools that accelerate teams. His background in engineering and management of new technologies is grounded by an engineering degree and a master in management of new technologies, enabling him to bridge technical strategy and organisational execution. A former gamedesigner at heart, he brings a playful curiosity to UX and developer workflow challenges.
11 years of coding experience
Master Management des Nouvelles Technologies, Master Management des Nouvelles Technologies at Paris-Pantheon-Assas UniversityPrépa Maths-Informatique, Prépa Maths-Informatique at Avignon UniversitéDiplôme d'ingénieur Informatique & Web, Diplôme d'ingénieur Informatique & Web at ESIEE PARIS
English, Spanish, French, Portuguese
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Github Skills (10)
typescript10
javascript10
bootstra10
typescripts10
bootstrap10
typescript-types10
angular10
jquery-selectors6
internet-explorer6
jquery6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
valor-software/ngx-bootstrap
Oct 2019 - Jan 2021
Fast and reliable Bootstrap widgets in Angular (supports Ivy engine)
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:1 review, 7 commits, 3 PRs in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Florent primarily contributed to the modal component within the ngx-bootstrap library. Their work involved implementing a modal closure interception mechanism, allowing for custom logic to be executed before a modal is closed. They also fixed a bug related to modal dismissal triggered by backdrop clicks and refactored the code for the close interceptor. This involved changes to the modal directive, container, and related demo files.
collapsedatepickertypeaheadivycarousel
florenthobein/daywriting-v2
Feb 2018 - Aug 2018
Contributions:12 commits, 15 pushes, 4 branches in 5 months
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