François Leurent
IT Manager At Instruments Product Design at EssilorLuxottica
Paris, Ile-de-France
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Top SchoolFrançois Leurent is an experienced IT leader with 17 years building web platforms, leading teams, and designing connected-device solutions, currently serving as IT Manager at Instruments Product Design for EssilorLuxottica. Previously he was IT Director and CTO of Activscreen, where he scaled a 20+ team and steered ERP, IS and SOA platform projects for digital signage and connected devices. A hands-on full-stack engineer, he contributes to open-source projects such as the popular node-http-proxy and a browser H.264 player, having optimized decoders and fixed cross-environment build issues. François blends deep technical fluency in web development and web analytics with practical product delivery and team leadership. Trained in mathematics and computer science at Université Denis Diderot, he combines analytical rigor with a pragmatic, deploy-first engineering style. Colleagues value him for turning complex integration challenges into stable, maintainable systems.
17 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Mathematics and Computer Science, Mathematics and Computer Science at Université Denis Diderot (Paris VII)
English, French
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Github Skills (21)
webgl10
javascript10
h26410
websocket10
http-proxy10
websockets-client10
mp410
nodejs10
websocket-client10
client-websocket10
postgresql9
browser9
pdf9
html6
text-extraction6
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
131/h264-live-player
Sep 2015 - Mar 2020
A live h264 player for the browser (ideal for raspberrypi / raspicam )
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:57 commits, 15 PRs, 51 pushes in 4 years 6 months
Contributions summary:François primarily focused on enhancing the project's functionality by adding features and fixing bugs related to the live H.264 video player. They refactored and optimized the Broadway decoder, crucial for handling the video stream within the browser. Furthermore, the user implemented a TCP server sample and made changes to the project's build and deployment configurations. These modifications collectively improved the player's stability and overall user experience.
raspberry-pibrowserh264idealh264-player
http-party/node-http-proxy
Jul 2016 - Oct 2016
A full-featured http proxy for node.js
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 1 PR, 5 comments in 3 months
Contributions summary:François primarily focused on modifying the internal workings of the http-proxy library. Their commits exposed full callback names, removed reliance on function names for scoping, and fixed browserification issues, ensuring the library's correct operation in various environments. The user also made code adjustments to improve the functionality and maintainability of core modules by addressing code style and naming.
full-featuredproxynode-jsjavascripthttp-proxy
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