Julien Sanchez
Software Engineer at Joko
Nantes, Pays de la Loire, France
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Top SchoolJulien Sanchez is a Staff Software Engineer with 14 years of experience, currently at Joko after a long tenure building core capabilities at Akeneo. He has led frontend and product initiatives for the open-source Akeneo PIM, contributed significant backend improvements (Excel export, i18n, product model associations) and built a syndication product from scratch that now generates over €1M ARR and supports 500+ channels. Comfortable across React/TypeScript, Symfony/PHP, ElasticSearch and serverless Google Cloud stacks, he combines hands-on implementation with CI/CD, Terraform and team hiring/mentoring. Julien frequently engages with the community via GitHub and Slack, writes developer documentation, and runs POCs to future-proof the platform. Outside work he experiments with embedded projects, game jams and analog photography—reflecting a practical tinkerer’s mindset that often informs creative engineering solutions. Based in Nantes, he brings product-focused engineering and open-source stewardship to scalable enterprise systems.
14 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Engineer's degree Computer Science, Engineer's degree Computer Science at Polytech Nantes
English, French
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Github Skills (17)
mysql10
amazon-elasticsearch10
elasticsearchquery10
php10
aws-elasticsearch10
symfony10
symfony-ux10
elasticsearch10
pim10
elasticsearch-api10
databases9
database9
datagrid6
localization6
javascript6
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
akeneo/pim-community-dev
Dec 2013 - Dec 2021
[Community Development Repository] The open source Product Information Management (PIM)
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:476 reviews, 1952 commits, 1089 PRs in 8 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Julien primarily contributed to the Akeneo PIM community development repository for the open source Product Information Management (PIM). Their work focused on enhancing the product export functionality by adding and refining features related to Excel compatibility, attribute and filter management, and internationalization (i18n) features. Furthermore, the user implemented crucial improvements in product model associations, ensuring better functionality and data structure management.
ziggyinformation-managementjavascriptphpbackbonejs
juliensnz/opz-gif
Apr 2020 - May 2020
Generate sprites for gif looper
Contributions:6 releases, 61 commits, 28 PRs in 1 month
gifloopersprites
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