Franck Lefevre
QA Automation Engineer
Rennes, Brittany, France
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Franck Lefevre is a seasoned QA Automation Engineer and backend PHP developer with 15 years of experience building and hardening web applications, currently at PrestaShop and running freelance projects from Rennes. He combines deep Symfony and legacy migration expertise with hands-on DevOps skills (Linux hosting, CI/CD, testing) and a taste for performance optimization and automation. As co-founder of Skypaper he led a full-stack product build—REST API with JWT, payment integrations and a Symfony migration path—demonstrating both entrepreneurial drive and production ops ownership. A long-time open-source contributor, his backend fixes and feature work on prominent PHPOffice libraries and PrestaShop show attention to code quality, compatibility and edge-case handling. Comfortable in remote and agency environments, he brings pragmatic craftsmanship and a pattern-seeking approach to improving performance and maintainability.
15 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bacalauréat, Scientifique, Bacalauréat, Scientifique at Lycée Julliot de la Morandière (Granville - 50)B.T.S. Informatique de Gestion, Informatics, B.T.S. Informatique de Gestion, Informatics at Lycée Notre-Dame de la Providence
French, English, German
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Github Skills (29)
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Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
PHPOffice/PHPPresentation
Mar 2012 - Dec 2021
A pure PHP library for reading and writing presentations documents
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:8 releases, 47 reviews, 837 commits in 9 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Franck's commits primarily focused on improving the ScrutinizerCI configuration to address code analysis issues within the project. The changes involve modifications to PHP code, specifically in the context of writing presentation documents, including changes to classes related to writing PowerPoint 2007 files, Manifest, Content Types, and general improvements. These changes aimed to improve the project's quality and adhere to code standards, indicating a focus on backend development.
pptpresentationpdfopenxmlpowerpoint
PHPOffice/PHPWord
May 2012 - Jan 2023
A pure PHP library for reading and writing word processing documents
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:3 releases, 222 reviews, 209 commits in 10 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Franck's commits primarily involve developing features and improvements for the PHPWord library, focusing on document writing capabilities. They added support for the RTF, ODT, and Word2007 (DOCX) formats. This includes implementing new writers, such as MsDoc reader, and integrating features for formatting text and paragraphs, supporting RTL (Right-To-Left) languages, and adding table-related capabilities such as colspan, rowspan, and attribute-based borders. The user also refactored some code and improved samples.
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