Florent Pillet
Freelance Consultant at Florent Pillet
Antibes, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France
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RockstarFlorent Pillet is a seasoned freelance software architect and developer with 15+ years delivering mobile, desktop and server solutions across iOS, macOS, Android and embedded platforms. He combines hands-on implementation and debugging with product-level responsibilities—design, documentation, marketing and user support—making him comfortable owning full product lifecycles. An early adopter of Reactive and Functional programming, he co-authored practical books on RxSwift and Combine and contributes to major open-source projects like RxSwift and GRDB.swift. He routinely builds server-side apps in Swift (Vapor) and Kotlin (Vert.X) and has a track record of stabilizing tooling such as NSLogger. Fluent at diving into large legacy codebases, he also runs training, code audits and conference talks, helping teams adopt reactive patterns. Based in Antibes, France, he blends deep low-level debugging experience with a continual appetite for new languages and platforms.
15 years of coding experience
English, German
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Github Skills (37)
unit-testing10
objective-c10
rxswift10
ios10
testing10
databases10
playgrounds10
ui-design10
rxcocoa10
observer10
reactive-extensions10
uid10
front-end-development10
sql10
swift10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
fpillet/NSLogger
Nov 2010 - Oct 2022
A modern, flexible logging tool
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:11 releases, 415 commits, 53 PRs in 12 years
Contributions summary:Florent made several changes to improve the functionality and stability of NSLogger, a logging tool. They addressed bugs by modifying the handling of filter sets and display of file/line/function information. The user also fixed text descriptions for images and enhanced SSL connection error messaging. They also worked on features like adding a reconnect timer for direct TCP/IP connections and improved the UI, including updates to the preferences window, making window names more explicit for multiple devices, and refactoring the code for more efficient operation.
loggerloggingflexible
RxSwiftCommunity/RxSwiftExt
Apr 2016 - Jan 2018
A collection of Rx operators & tools not found in the core RxSwift distribution
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:181 commits, 57 PRs, 127 pushes in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:Florent primarily contributed to the `RxSwiftExtDemo` project, adding new operators like `ignore` and `once`. They also implemented operators like `ignoreWhen` and `cascadeTo`. The user extensively tested the new operators with Swift code. They also made improvements to the existing code base such as, code formatting and removing unused code, for better performance of the project.
reactive-programmingrxswiftswiftdistributionnot-found
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