Gary Houbre
Developpeur Senior PHP Symfony at IRU
Perrignier, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France
Summary
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Top SchoolGary Houbre is a senior PHP/Symfony developer with 11 years of experience, currently freelancing and working at IRU while mentoring PHP/Symfony students at OpenClassrooms. He has deep back-end expertise across Symfony and Laravel, delivering APIs, middleware, CI/CD, automated testing, and maintenance tooling for both startups and enterprise clients. A practical tech lead, he has founded a gaming platform and co-created internal quality tools that scan dependencies and surface vulnerabilities, demonstrating an emphasis on reliability and maintainability. Gary is also an active contributor to the official Symfony documentation, improving examples and harmonizing code samples for clearer developer guidance. Based in Perrignier, France, he blends hands-on engineering with mentorship and community contributions, making complex systems easier to understand and operate. His background in C/C++ and embedded payment terminals hints at a solid systems-level curiosity beyond typical web stacks.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
EpitechBaccalauréat STI Génie Mécanique, Baccalauréat STI Génie Mécanique at Lycée Portes de l'Oisans
French, English
Stackoverflow
872reputation
44kreached
43answers
6questions
Github Skills (21)
url-routing10
php10
symfony10
symfony-ux10
documentation10
console9
forms9
cpp-templates8
apptemplates8
configuration-file8
code-templates8
configuration-management8
python-templates8
html-template8
configurations8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
symfony/symfony-docs
Jul 2019 - Nov 2020
The Symfony documentation
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:1 review, 18 commits, 33 PRs in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Gary primarily contributed to the Symfony documentation repository. Their work involved updating and refining existing documentation pages, including examples for Swift Mailer, console commands, and forms. They focused on adding details, correcting code blocks, and harmonizing the presentation of code examples by adding namespaces, providing more context, and standardizing text formatting. These changes were focused on improving clarity and accuracy across multiple sections of the documentation.
bundlephpsymfonysymfony-bundle
TheGarious/TheGarious
Sep 2020 - Apr 2024
Contributions:7 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 7 months
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