Florent Viel
Software Engineer at scaleway
Lyon, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France
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Top SchoolFlorent Viel is a seasoned backend software engineer with 14 years of experience, currently focused on building features and systems in Go. Based in Lyon, he combines solid academic foundations from Université Claude Bernard and the University of the West of Scotland with hands-on expertise in server-side development. He has a history of improving core libraries—contributing notable fixes and features to the PHP IMAP library tedious/Fetch, including mailbox listing and robust message decoding. Comfortable across system-level concerns and feature delivery, he balances maintenance of legacy stacks with modern Go development. Colleagues know him as a pragmatic problem-solver who values reliability and clean data handling in production systems.
14 years of coding experience
Bachelor's degree, Information Technology, Bachelor's degree, Information Technology at University of the West of ScotlandDUT, Informatique, DUT, Informatique at Université Claude Bernard (Lyon I)
German, English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (8)
php10
imap10
decode9
base649
base64url9
unit-testing8
linux6
azure6
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
tedious/Fetch
Aug 2014 - Dec 2014
An IMAP library for PHP
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits in 3 months
Contributions summary:Florent primarily contributed to the `tedious/fetch` library, an IMAP library for PHP. Their contributions involved implementing new features, fixing bugs, and maintaining code quality. Key additions include the `listMailbox` function. The user also addressed issues related to message decoding and HTML fetching, demonstrating expertise in core library functionality and data handling.
phpemailimap-libraryimap
wanadev/fiftysent
May 2012 - Aug 2013
Contributions:34 commits in 1 year 3 months
partagefichiersphpemailpar
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