Florian Levis
Développeur Back-end at UNOWHY
Greater Paris Metropolitan Region France
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolFlorian Levis is a seasoned back-end developer with 12 years of experience building reliable server-side systems across startups and enterprise environments in the Greater Paris area. He favors Kotlin while remaining fluent in Python, C# and PHP, and has shifted his API focus from REST to gRPC for higher-performance interservice communication. Florian contributes to notable open-source projects such as janephp (improving OpenAPI-driven code generation) and Laravel Valet (enhancing local dev DNS handling), reflecting a practical emphasis on tooling and developer experience. He enjoys extracting value from video and image streams, is comfortable containerizing workloads with Docker and Kubernetes, and mentors others—having served as an OpenClassrooms mentor and professional jury member for web developer certification. Pragmatic and curious, he combines deep backend craftsmanship with a taste for infrastructure and developer tooling that keeps teams productive.
12 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Master en Ingénierie de l'Informatique Réseaux et Télécommunications Informatique, Master en Ingénierie de l'Informatique Réseaux et Télécommunications Informatique at ITIN
French, English
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Github Skills (13)
macos10
php10
code-generation10
laravel10
json-schema10
server10
laravel-mix10
server-side10
testing9
sdk9
homebrew6
nginx6
symfony6
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
laravel/valet
Aug 2016 - May 2017
A more enjoyable local development experience for Mac.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 4 PRs, 7 comments in 8 months
Contributions summary:Florian primarily contributed to the backend logic of the Laravel Valet project. They implemented and refined features related to wildcard DNS support, specifically focusing on integrating xip.io and nip.io. The changes involved modifying the server-side code to correctly handle and filter hostnames, ensuring proper redirection and functionality for local development environments using these wildcard DNS providers. Additionally, the user updated existing tests and refactored code to improve maintainability.
vagrantlocal-developmentphpmactrellis
janephp/janephp
Jun 2021 - Feb 2022
:seedling: Jane is a set of libraries to generate Models & API Clients based on JSON Schema / OpenAPI specs
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:17 reviews, 17 commits, 4 PRs in 8 months
Contributions summary:Florian primarily contributed to the `janephp/janephp` repository by fixing code style issues and implementing features to improve code generation. Their work involved modifying code related to property naming conventions, getter/setter generation, and normalizer/denormalizer implementations. Furthermore, the user added custom string format support and updated documentation and test fixtures to reflect the changes.
openapi-schemapsr18apiapi-clientsseedling
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