Kevin Balicot
Chief Technology Officer at Akawaka
Greater Lyon Area France
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Top SchoolKevin Balicot is a seasoned technology leader and CTO based in Greater Lyon with 11 years of hands-on experience designing and delivering custom web projects. He founded and leads Akawaka, an agency specializing in PHP, Symfony, Sylius and DDD-driven architectures, engaging clients both on time-and-materials and fixed-price contracts. Kevin progressed from PHP/MySQL developer roles to technical leadership, bringing practical expertise in back-end systems, e-commerce platforms and long-lived product delivery. He combines day-to-day coding experience with team leadership, having served as lead developer across multiple agencies before taking the CTO role. Though primarily focused on client work rather than open-source fame, his pragmatic approach to architecture and process helps translate complex requirements into maintainable, production-ready systems. Fluent in French and rooted in the Lyon tech scene, he’s open to collaborations through akawaka.fr rather than traditional recruitment.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Licence Pro (METINET) Métiers du web, Licence Pro (METINET) Métiers du web at IUT Lyon 1 - Bourg en BresseDUT Informatique, DUT Informatique at Université Claude Bernard (Lyon I)
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Github Skills (65)
meta-tags9
logos9
iconic9
branding9
plugin9
css9
fonts9
svg-font9
font-awesome9
google-fonts9
woff9
seo8
svg8
price7
backpack6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
kevinbalicot/yion-body-parser
Dec 2016 - Oct 2023
Contributions:20 pushes, 1 branch, 8 tags in 6 years 10 months
akawaka/akawaka-site
Nov 2023 - Jan 2025
Contributions:4 reviews, 26 PRs, 42 pushes in 1 year 1 month
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