Georges Limouzy
Senior Software Engineer at Conserto
Nantes, Pays de la Loire, France
Summary
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RockstarGeorges Limouzy is a Senior Software Engineer based in Nantes with 12 years of hands-on experience building and maintaining PHP backends, APIs and high-performance caching systems. As co‑founder and long-time maintainer of phpFastCache, he blends product-minded engineering with deep technical ownership, shipping multiple major versions and custom drivers. His open-source footprint includes meaningful contributions to widely used projects like phpBB, PhpStorm stubs and the popular whoops error handler, where he improved cross-editor integration and DBAL interoperability across many SQL engines. He has led teams and projects across agencies and consultancies, mentoring engineers while driving architecture, security patching and CI-driven delivery. Pragmatic and detail-oriented, Georges often focuses on maintainability improvements—refactors, stricter comparisons and better extensibility—that reduce future technical debt.
12 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
English, French
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Github Skills (41)
caching10
apidoc10
databases10
instagram-api10
object-oriented-programming10
phpbb10
phpunit10
php10
api10
github-api10
sql10
error-handling10
relational-databases10
phpstorm10
sql-database10
Programming languages (20)
Github contributions (5)
PHPSocialNetwork/phpfastcache
Jun 2015 - Jan 2023
A high-performance backend cache system. It is intended for use in speeding up dynamic web applications by alleviating database load. Well implemented, it can drops the database load to almost nothing, yielding faster page load times for users, better resource utilization. It is simple yet powerful.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:123 releases, 10 reviews, 1744 commits in 7 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Georges added two Devtrue/Devfalse drivers to the phpFastCache system. These drivers appear to be for testing or development purposes, implementing functions to write, read, and delete cached data. The commits also introduced new Item classes for each of the new drivers. Furthermore, the user updated the README.md file and added a description of these drivers.
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JetBrains/phpstorm-stubs
Mar 2017 - Sep 2021
PHP runtime & extensions header files for PhpStorm
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 review, 10 commits, 4 PRs in 4 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Georges primarily contributed to the PHP runtime and extension stubs for PhpStorm, adding missing functions, annotations, and constants. They integrated updates from external sources, such as the PHP source repository, including new functionalities like `apcu_cache_info` and `PDO::MYSQL_ATTR_SSL_VERIFY_SERVER_CERT`. These changes improve PhpStorm's code completion and analysis capabilities for PHP developers. They also made formatting and type hint corrections.
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