Francis Andre
Responsable En Restauration Sur Autoroute
Dol-de-Bretagne, Brittany, France
Summary
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RockstarFrancis Andre is a pragmatic technologist with 12 years of hands-on engineering experience who balances a leadership role in highway restaurant operations with active open-source contributions. Based in Dol-de-Bretagne, he has deep C++ and Java backend expertise, demonstrated by meaningful improvements to high-profile projects like POCO and JavaCC—adding logging/formatting features, cross-platform fixes, and C++ code-generation support. He combines practical DevOps and build-system work (Maven Central prep, platform-specific build tweaks) with low-level code changes, showing an unusual blend of operational leadership and compiler/parser-level coding. Comfortable resolving complex merge conflicts and adapting libraries to niche platforms, he brings reliability-focused problem solving to both service management and technical codebases.
12 years of coding experience
Github Skills (18)
c-language10
multiplatform10
cross-platform10
java10
javas10
parser-generator10
logging10
cprogramming-language10
platform-independent10
text-formatting9
build-system9
formatting9
configuration-management9
configuration-file9
configurations9
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
javacc/javacc
Dec 2016 - Dec 2022
JavaCC - a parser generator for building parsers from grammars. It can generate code in Java, C++ and C#.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:12 releases, 289 commits, 101 PRs in 6 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Francis primarily contributed to the JavaCC parser generator, updating the code base to incorporate C++ code generation support and resolving merge conflicts. Their work involved modifying grammar files and Java source code. They also made changes related to build processes, including preparing for Maven Central deployment and replacing include guards.
parsersgrammarparser-generatorabstract-syntax-treecode-generate
pocoproject/poco
Sep 2014 - Aug 2022
The POCO C++ Libraries are powerful cross-platform C++ libraries for building network- and internet-based applications that run on desktop, server, mobile, IoT, and embedded systems.
Role in this project:Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:2 releases, 1286 commits, 243 PRs in 8 years
Contributions summary:Francis's contributions focused on enhancing the POCO C++ Libraries, specifically by adding features to the logging and formatting functionalities, improving build processes, and adapting to specific platforms. The changes included extending the formatting methods to support more arguments, refining the build command for a specific VS2013 Express Edition, modifying configurations for Cygwin, and addressing platform-specific floating-point environment issues. These efforts demonstrate a clear focus on improving the library's core capabilities and compatibility.
pocoobjectmapperc-plus-pluslogginghttp-server
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