Florian Klein
France
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Top SchoolFlorian Klein is a seasoned backend software engineer with 15 years’ experience designing and optimising database-backed web applications, most recently as a Senior Staff Engineer at Akeneo. He combines deep interest and hands-on work in incremental view maintenance, declarative languages and database internals with practical expertise in Symfony and PHP ecosystems. An active open-source contributor, Florian has improved core libraries like DoctrineBehaviors, PhpSpec/Prophecy and large projects such as Sylius and Akeneo PIM, often touching performance-sensitive areas like tree materialized paths and import/completeness pipelines. Based in Nantes, he pairs pragmatic engineering and mentoring from his KnpLabs consulting years with a taste for subtle, non-obvious optimisations that keep large data workflows manageable in production.
16 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Licence Internet et médias mobiles, Informatique, Licence Internet et médias mobiles, Informatique at Université Henri Poincaré, Nancy 1
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Github Skills (40)
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Programming languages (27)
Github contributions (5)
KnpLabs/DoctrineBehaviors
Mar 2012 - Nov 2016
Doctrine2 behavior traits that help handling Blameable, Loggable, Sluggable, SoftDeletable, Uuidable, Timestampable, Translatable, Tree behavior
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:4 releases, 228 commits, 44 PRs in 4 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Florian appears to be actively working on the tree structure and related functionalities within the Doctrine Behaviors library. The commits showcase modifications to the `Node`, `Tree` and `Repository` classes focusing on the materialized path implementation. The changes include addressing test failures, refactoring naming conventions, and adding new methods to improve tree operations and query building, indicating a focus on the core functionality of the library.
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phpspec/phpspec
May 2013 - Jan 2016
SpecBDD Framework for PHP
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:10 commits, 2 PRs, 14 comments in 2 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Florian primarily contributed to the PhpSpec framework by fixing bugs and enhancing functionality related to example execution, presentation, and testing. They modified the `ExampleRunner` to handle different PHP versions and adjust instantiation logic. Additionally, they addressed issues with presenting callable objects and implemented a Differ to allow for initialization with a list of engines. These changes reflect efforts to improve the framework's core behavior and output formatting.
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