Hugo Briand
Fondateur
Paris, Ile-de-France
Summary
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Top SchoolHugo Briand is a founder and seasoned software leader based in Paris with over a decade of hands-on experience building high‑traffic digital platforms and leading engineering teams. He has progressed from senior engineer to deputy CTO and CTO roles at ekino, where he led Web3 R&D, built a blockchain practice, and managed innovation pipelines and product industrialization. A pragmatic full‑stack developer, Hugo has a strong backend focus in Symfony/PHP and image processing, evidenced by notable contributions to prominent open‑source projects like Sonata (Admin, Media, Page bundles) and Thumbor. He combines engineering rigor—unit tests, refactors, and compatibility work—with UX-minded improvements to admin and media tooling, showing an eye for both maintainability and end‑user workflows. Trained in engineering and computer science across French and North American institutions, he pairs academic breadth (signal theory, statistics) with product execution. Notably, his open-source work includes API enhancements and caching improvements that improved performance and developer ergonomics in widely used PHP and image services.
13 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Diplôme d'Ingénieur de l'Ecole Centrale d'Electronique Informatique, Diplôme d'Ingénieur de l'Ecole Centrale d'Electronique Informatique at ECE. Ecole d'ingénieurs. Engineering School.Master of Science Statistics Signal Theory Software Engineering Numerical Analysis, Master of Science Statistics Signal Theory Software Engineering Numerical Analysis at Concordia UniversityDUT Informatique Informatique Systèmes d'Information, DUT Informatique Informatique Systèmes d'Information at Université Paris CitéUniversity of California, Irvine
French, English, German
Stackoverflow
1,677reputation
160kreached
48answers
3questions
symfony
top-5%
caching
top-5%
Github Skills (59)
unit-testing10
caching10
admin10
bootstrap10
python10
fixture10
apidoc10
symfony-bundle10
doctrine10
tornado10
configuration-management10
user-authentication10
blocks10
authentication10
bundle10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
sonata-project/sandbox
Jun 2013 - Oct 2014
[Abandoned] Sonata Project's sandbox
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:145 commits, 1 PR, 6 comments in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Hugo primarily contributed to the Sonata project sandbox, focusing on fixing bugs, refactoring, and preparing the code for deployment. Their work involved updating fixtures to avoid issues, fixing typos in translation files, and reflecting refactoring in the e-commerce library. Furthermore, they implemented currency support and product collections within the sandbox. Additional tasks included updating deploy configuration, adding deployment commands, and implementing a variation form.
phpsandboxsonatasymfonyabandoned
sonata-project/SonataUserBundle
Oct 2013 - Feb 2015
Symfony SonataUserBundle
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:41 commits, 3 PRs, 1 push in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Hugo primarily contributed to the SonataUserBundle, focusing on profile-related features and the user interface. They added a side menu to the profile, implemented a profile dashboard, and updated various templates, including login and registration pages. Their work involved modifying controllers, templates, and configuration files, enhancing the user experience and the bundle's functionality.
ckeditorbundlephpsymfony-bundlesonata
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