François Chastanet
Technical Lead at CrossKnowledge
Greater Nice Metropolitan Area France
Summary
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Top SchoolFrançois Chastanet is a Technical Lead with 13 years of hands-on experience delivering web and microservice architectures across industries from e-learning to airlines and telecoms. He combines full-stack craftsmanship in PHP, JavaScript/React and DevOps practices—driving CI/CD, Docker/WSL dev environments and Jenkins libraries—to help teams transition from monoliths to multi-language microservices. At CrossKnowledge he led teams of 6–9, introduced performance and accessibility improvements, and implemented DB optimizers that automatically curtailed expensive MySQL queries. An active contributor to open-source tooling, he improved documentation generation for json-schema-for-humans, bridging presentation and schema concerns. He prefers direct-hire Tech Lead roles with DevOps responsibilities and brings a teaching mindset—mentoring peers through coding dojos and internal trainings. Based in the Greater Nice area, he pairs pragmatic engineering with a long record of operationalizing reliable, production-grade systems.
13 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Chant, Chant at Ecole de musique de MouginsMaster 1 Software engineering, Master 1 Software engineering at Université Côte d'AzurMaster2 Software engineering, Master2 Software engineering at Polytech Nice Sophia
French, English
Stackoverflow
57reputation
4kreached
6answers
2questions
Github Skills (14)
markdown10
markdown-it10
python10
jinja210
documentation10
jekyll8
windows-subsystem-for-linux6
visual-studio-code6
linux6
filtering6
php6
csslint6
dns6
slice6
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
coveooss/json-schema-for-humans
Jan 2021 - Apr 2021
Quickly generate HTML documentation from a JSON schema
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:90 commits, 4 PRs, 7 comments in 2 months
Contributions summary:François focused on enhancing the documentation generation process for the project. Their contributions include adding support for a Markdown template, managing heading numbering, and improving the rendering of array restrictions and property details within the documentation. The user also worked on fixing rendering issues and integrating the configuration schema into the jekyll site, showing involvement with both the presentation and structure of the documentation.
html-documentationdocumentation-generatorjson-schemajson
CrossKnowledge/Propel
Jan 2019 - Jul 2024
Current stable (and outdated and unmaintained) version of Propel - Please use v2 https://github.com/propelorm/Propel2 --
Contributions:6 reviews, 5 PRs, 1 push in 5 years 6 months
duplicatesqffatpropel2outdated
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