Guillaume Dufrêne
Principal Engineer at AXA
Greater Lille Metropolitan Area France
Summary
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Top SchoolGuillaume Dufrêne is a Principal Engineer with 11+ years of experience designing and implementing Java/JEE and service-oriented architectures, currently driving platform and cloudification efforts at AXA. He combines deep hands-on skills in Spring Boot, webMethods and Kafka with system administration expertise (Linux/Ubuntu) to containerize and deploy services on Azure and private clouds. His background spans product leadership, R&D and CTO roles where he built SaaS platforms, led engineering teams and shaped Dev tooling and CI/CD practices. As a longtime university instructor and co-creator of a Java EE/Spring MOOC, he pairs academic rigor (Doctorat en Informatique) with practical mentorship across developer communities. Comfortable across backend, web and integration stacks (Java, NodeJS, PHP, JavaScript), he often surfaces tooling or automation improvements that accelerate delivery. Fluent in translating research-level architecture concepts into production-grade, multi-tenant systems, he brings both breadth and an engineer’s attention to operational detail.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Doctorat, Informatique, Doctorat, Informatique at Université Lille I
English
Github Skills (40)
barrage10
rethinkdb10
java10
http-client10
jax-rs10
slf4j10
spring9
kafka9
static-assets9
rest9
backbonejs9
feign9
react9
apache-kafka9
management9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
gdufrene/solarus
Feb 2021 - Oct 2023
A Solarus with net-http and sqlite binding
Contributions:5 releases, 2 PRs, 10 pushes in 2 years 7 months
sqlitedatabasenet-httpbinding
gdufrene/mooc_jee_spring
Sep 2021 - Aug 2022
Contributions:1 release, 11 pushes, 1 tag in 11 months
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