François Delbrayelle is a Lead Software Engineer based in Lille with eight years of professional experience building and guiding backend-first teams and platforms. Currently at Kestra after a leadership stint at Malt, he focuses on plugin development and systems integration, bringing hands-on expertise in distributed systems like Apache Kafka—evidenced by his contributions to the popular JHipster Lite project where he implemented Kafka producers, consumers, monitoring and CI/CD test improvements. He combines tech leadership, mentoring and developer advocacy from prior roles as tech lead, trainer and community ambassador, helping teams adopt pragmatic architectures. Comfortable across full-stack concerns, he has a strong academic foundation (SUPINFO, IUT de Lens) and a knack for turning infrastructure complexity into repeatable, testable code.
8 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
DUT Informatique Développement Génie logiciel GNU/Linux, DUT Informatique Développement Génie logiciel GNU/Linux at IUT de Lens
JHipster Lite ⚡ is a development platform to generate, develop & deploy modern web applications & microservices architecture, step by step - using Hexagonal Architecture :gem:
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:37 reviews, 81 commits, 12 PRs in 7 months
Contributions summary:François's primary contributions center around implementing and integrating Apache Kafka support within the JHipster Lite project. This includes initializing Kafka configurations, adding a dummy producer and consumer with associated unit and integration tests, and integrating AKHQ for Kafka monitoring. The user focused on generating and configuring code related to Kafka brokers, properties, and test setups, demonstrating a strong understanding of the technology. They also made some CI/CD test improvements.
Restitution de notes des meetups et festivals auxquels j'assiste
Contributions:1 PR, 45 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 10 months
notesfestivalsdesdes-notesjava
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François Delbrayelle - Lead Software Engineer at Kestra