Julien Da Silva
Co-Founder & Tech at Akta
Paris, Ile-de-France
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Top SchoolJulien Da Silva is a software engineer and co-founder with 10 years of experience building scalable Ruby on Rails applications and AI-driven tooling for early-stage startups. He co-leads Akta, where he blends product vision and automation to simplify RNCP/RHCP certification and regulatory workflows for education providers. Previously he scaled engineering and curriculum at Le Wagon, contributing to a popular Rails template that jump-starts projects and shapes developer best practices. As a freelance consultant he pairs prompt engineering with pragmatic Rails development to turn ideas into production-ready products. Based in Paris, he combines hands-on engineering, teaching experience, and a background in digital cinema that informs a detail-oriented, user-focused approach to building software.
10 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
FullStack Developer Web Development, FullStack Developer Web Development at Le WagonHigh School Economics and Social Sciences, High School Economics and Social Sciences at Fernand DaguinFilm/Cinema/Video Studies, Film/Cinema/Video Studies at ESEC - Ecole Supérieure d’Etudes Cinématographiques
English, Spanish, Portuguese, French
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (13)
git10
rails10
ruby-on-rails10
webpacker9
webpack9
bootstra8
devise8
bootstrap8
simpleform7
heroku6
javascript6
ecmascript6
react6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
lewagon/rails-templates
Feb 2020 - Mar 2022
Jump start your Rails development with Le Wagon best practices
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:6 reviews, 32 commits, 9 PRs in 2 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Julien primarily contributed to the configuration and setup of a Ruby on Rails template. They focused on modifying the Gemfile, adding and removing gems, and configuring assets, including stylesheets and JavaScript. The user also addressed environment settings, such as for development and production, along with adding Heroku configurations. The user's work involved core configurations and dependencies needed to get a Rails application up and running.
ruby-on-railsjumphamlwagontemplate
juliends/devise-500
Nov 2020 - Mar 2022
Contributions:2 reviews, 6 PRs, 5 pushes in 1 year 3 months
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