François-xavier De Guillebon is a Lead Developer with 14 years of experience building and maintaining web applications and C++ desktop tools, currently based in Saint-Malo, Brittany. He blends deep Symfony/PHP backend expertise (MySQL, API Platform, Elastica/Elasticsearch) with lower-level C/C++ work (Qt, HHVM profiling), enabling him to tackle both infrastructure and performance-critical problems. As a contributor to prominent OSS projects like Composer, Doctrine, and multiple FriendsOfSymfony bundles, he focuses on maintainability, modern PHP compatibility and CI automation. His career spans product-focused roles at SensioLabs and leadership positions at Dassault Systèmes, GensDeConfiance and Famileo, where he led refactors and feature rollouts. Notably, he often addresses deprecations and type-hinting upgrades, showing a knack for future-proofing codebases.
Elasticsearch PHP integration for your Symfony project using Elastica.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:76 reviews, 144 commits, 86 PRs in 2 years
Contributions summary:François-xavier primarily contributed to improving the exception handling and overall stability of the Symfony-based application. Their work included adding missing identifiers to exception messages in the `AbstractElasticaToModelTransformer.php` file, which improved debugging. They also refactored code by removing `Elastica\Type` and fixing type hints to align with the project's structure. Further, the user made modifications to the test suite to improve the quality of tests.
Contributions:6 releases, 194 reviews, 175 commits in 2 years 7 months
Contributions summary:François-xavier primarily focused on code style improvements and updating the project's dependencies. They fixed code style issues, ensuring consistency across the codebase. The user also updated the query builder version to 7.0 and incorporated type hints to enhance code maintainability. They also added new features to the query builder DSL and modified several unit tests, which improved the project's structure and functionality.
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François-xavier De Guillebon - Lead Developer at Famileo