Julien Bourdeau
Senior Software Engineer at Laravel
Nantes, Pays de la Loire, France
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Top SchoolJulien Bourdeau is a Senior Software Engineer based in Nantes with 13 years of experience building reliable web platforms and billing systems at scale. He currently works with Ruby on Rails, Kubernetes, and Postgres, and previously optimized TB-scale billing pipelines at Algolia using Go, BigQuery and BigTable—once cutting a pipeline from 8 minutes to 15 seconds. A pragmatic full-stack contributor, he maintains Laravel projects by night and has a strong open-source footprint in the PrestaShop ecosystem and Packagist search UX. Julien combines operational rigor (incident leadership, documentation, migration work) with hands-on feature delivery across backend, frontend and infra. His background spans launching a SaaS storefront, founder lessons from a consumer startup, and formal engineering studies in Hong Kong and France.
14 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
post graduate Computer Science, post graduate Computer Science at EseoMaster Multimedia and Information Technology Computer Engineering, Master Multimedia and Information Technology Computer Engineering at City University of Hong Kong
English, French
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Github Skills (18)
javascript10
package-development10
plugin-development10
css10
php10
packagist10
front-end-development10
prestashop10
html10
drupal-module10
sc9
webpack9
webpacker9
scs9
version-control9
Programming languages (26)
Github contributions (5)
PrestaShop/StarterTheme
Aug 2015 - Jan 2017
[DEPRECATED] PrestaShop Starter Theme
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:1 release, 191 commits, 68 PRs in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Julien primarily focused on front-end development tasks within the PrestaShop starter theme. They removed legacy JavaScript libraries like rivets.js and then updated assets, and introduced custom CSS and JavaScript files. Furthermore, the user implemented UI improvements related to the checkout process and incorporated new features such as notifications and a standalone address-form template.
prestashopprestashop-theme
PrestaShop/PrestaShop-modules
Feb 2014 - Mar 2016
Partner and native modules
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:40 commits, 2 PRs, 6 pushes in 2 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Julien primarily contributed to the PrestaShop modules repository, focusing on bug fixes and adding retro-compatibility for various modules. Their work included addressing compatibility issues, such as for the Loyalty module across different PrestaShop versions. They also made adjustments to module functionalities. The user's contributions were concentrated on enhancing existing module features and improving the overall compatibility of the modules within the PrestaShop ecosystem.
native-module
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