Loïc Faugeron
Backend PHP Rust Elixir Engineer at Prima
Bristol, England, United Kingdom
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
Top SchoolLoïc Faugeron is a backend engineer with 11+ years of experience designing and shipping modular, high-performance systems that have operated at 50K+ requests per second. He specializes in PHP and Symfony (PHP 8.x, Symfony 7) but also works with Rust and Elixir, blending pragmatic architecture, DDD and a strong TDD/BDD culture to deliver resilient APIs and microservices. He has led product-facing teams from greenfield builds to scaled features—most recently owning end-to-end delivery at Bumble—and drives DevOps and CI/CD best practices to improve reliability and velocity. An open-source maintainer and technical writer, he’s contributed documentation to widely used projects like phpspec and created tools such as Memio and SpecGen that accelerate PHP developer workflows. Based in Bristol, he pairs hands-on coding with mentorship and a bias for simplifying complexity into clean, testable designs.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
EpitechComputer Science, Management, Computer Science, Management at Keele UniversityBaccalauréat S, Sciences de l'Ingénieur, Baccalauréat S, Sciences de l'Ingénieur at Lycée Arbez Carme
English, French
Stackoverflow
667reputation
91kreached
2answers
2questions
namespaces
top-5%
Github Skills (10)
rs10
documentation10
namespaces9
fastcgi6
php6
tensorflow6
symfony6
protocol-buffers6
dependency-injection6
fest4
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
phpspec/phpspec
Jun 2016 - Feb 2020
SpecBDD Framework for PHP
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:7 commits, 9 PRs, 20 comments in 3 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Loïc's contributions primarily focused on updating and improving the documentation for phpspec 3. This involved correcting formatting, specifically using double backticks instead of single backticks for code examples in RST format. Additionally, the user documented breaking changes introduced in phpspec 3, providing guidance on upgrading from previous versions, including changes to configurations and method signatures. Their work ensures that users have accurate and up-to-date information when upgrading and using the framework.
phpphp-frameworkrad
gnugat/dotfiles
Oct 2015 - Jul 2019
🔵 How I backup, restore and synchronise my shell / system preferences and settings.
Contributions:3 commits, 6 PRs, 190 pushes in 3 years 9 months
dotfiles
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.