Joël Cavat
Backend Software Engineer at IFCHOR GALBRAITHS
Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
Summary
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Top SchoolJoël Cavat is a backend software engineer based in Geneva with 11 years of experience designing and owning end-to-end systems, from architecture to delivery. He blends industrial R&D and academia—having held research and teaching roles at HEPIA and HEIG-VD—with industry work on mission-critical systems such as single-photon projects for Ariane 6. Comfortable with Scala, Akka, Java and Spring, he focuses on robust, maintainable backend architectures and has a track record of mentoring students and engineers. His career reflects a practical mix of hands-on engineering, teaching, and consulting, bringing scientific rigor to production software in regulated and research-driven contexts.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
CFC et Maturité Professionnelle Technique, Informatique, CFC et Maturité Professionnelle Technique, Informatique at Ecole Technique des Métiers, Lausanne (ETML)CFC, Employé de commerce, CFC, Employé de commerce at Ecole professionnelle commerciale de Lausanne (EPCL)Master of Science, Computer Science, major in Software Engineering, Master of Science, Computer Science, major in Software Engineering at Haute Ecole Spécialisée de Suisse occidentale (HES-SO)Ingénieur, Bachelor of Science HES-SO, Computer Science, major in Software Engineering, Ingénieur, Bachelor of Science HES-SO, Computer Science, major in Software Engineering at Haute Ecole d'Ingénierie et de Gestion du Canton de Vaud (HEIG-VD)
Github Skills (16)
lamp10
php10
docker10
docker-compose10
phpmyadmin10
mysql10
mariadb10
apache9
rust8
modeler8
macros4
functional-programming2
scala2
linear-programming2
xml2
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
karibou-ch/karibou-quad
Mar 2017 - Jun 2018
Contributions:2 PRs, 52 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 3 months
jcavat/docker-lamp
Mar 2017 - Sep 2022
Docker with Apache, MySql, PhpMyAdmin and Php
Contributions:24 commits, 6 PRs, 21 pushes in 5 years 7 months
mysqlphpapachedockerapache2
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