Laurent Willems
Associé Gérant & Développeur Php Symfony at Obtao
Lille, Hauts-de-France
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Top SchoolLaurent Willems is an experienced PHP/Symfony developer and tech leader with 11+ years building e-commerce platforms, back-office systems, and API-driven integrations for marketplaces like Amazon, eBay and Shopify. As co-founder and lead developer at Obtao and former CTO/lead dev roles, he combines hands-on Symfony (2–5), API‑Platform, ElasticSearch, Docker and message-queue expertise with product-minded architecture and agile team coaching. He has a proven record migrating large catalogs and connecting complex services (110K+ products on Shopify) and delivering reliable search and async-processing pipelines. Based in Lille, he favors pragmatic, quality code and enjoys solving tough integration challenges that sit at the intersection of commerce and infrastructure.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Baccalauréat science des techniques tertiaires, Action et communication, Mention Bien, Baccalauréat science des techniques tertiaires, Action et communication, Mention Bien at Lycée Jean BartMaster management des entreprises, Commerce international, Master management des entreprises, Commerce international at Université du Littoral Côte d'Opale
French, English, Spanish
Stackoverflow
103reputation
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2answers
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Github Skills (77)
api-platform10
mercure10
hypermedia10
backend10
bundle10
stream10
api10
rest10
hal10
scaffold10
admin10
generator10
php10
json-ld10
easyadmin9
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
cdma-numiscorner/marketplace-bundle
Aug 2020 - Jul 2022
Contributions:33 commits, 26 pushes, 31 tags in 1 year 10 months
lwillems/symfony-debug
Nov 2021 - Sep 2022
Contributions:4 commits, 4 pushes, 1 branch in 9 months
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