Manuel Raynaud
Senior Software Engineer at RaySys
Clermont-Ferrand, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France
Summary
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RockstarManuel Raynaud is a senior full-stack and DevOps engineer with 13+ years of experience building and operating high-traffic, scalable web systems from prototype to production. He blends hands-on development in Python, PHP, Node and JavaScript with infrastructure expertise in Docker, Kubernetes, Ansible, Terraform and GitOps (ArgoCD) to enable resilient, continuously deployed platforms. As former CTO at France Université Numérique he led teams to deliver a national-class LCMS, a marketplace for professional training, and an AI-driven transcription project (Transcr'IA) that processed thousands of hours of video with Whisper. He contributes to open-source projects like suitenumerique/docs, Thelia and Propel2, focusing on backend reliability, infrastructure improvements and testability. Based in Clermont-Ferrand, he favors pragmatic engineering, developer community engagement, and has a track record of accelerating existing projects as well as founding and scaling new ones. An often-overlooked strength is his experience turning academic and public-sector needs into production-grade, sovereign alternatives to large commercial platforms.
14 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (31)
python10
back-end-development10
apidoc10
api-design10
ecommerce10
django10
ruff10
testing10
php10
api10
orm10
database-design10
symfony10
symfony-ux10
unit-testing9
Programming languages (22)
Github contributions (5)
thelia/thelia
Oct 2012 - Aug 2015
Thelia is an open-source e-commerce CMS and framework built on Symfony 7 and API Platform.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:18 releases, 2881 commits, 493 PRs in 2 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Manuel contributed to Thelia's e-commerce platform by primarily working on the backend functionalities. This includes refactoring the PDF generator and various features, updating language and currency management, as well as implementing a test suite. The user also made updates to several core modules and added code to enhance API functionality.
api-platformcmsecommercesymfonyphp
suitenumerique/docs
Jan 2025 - Jul 2026
Docs is an open-source text editor: web-native, made for real-time collaboration, cleanly structured documents and sub-documents with full ownership of your data. Built to scale with Django and React.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:3 releases, 246 reviews, 169 PRs in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Manuel primarily focused on improving the back-end functionality and maintainability of the application. Their contributions include refactoring and optimizing code for linting, enhancing data retrieval in the document restoration process, and implementing Content-Disposition headers for media uploads. Additionally, the user made infrastructure changes by configuring the docker-compose file and integrating Redis for session management during development. The user also addressed access control issues by restricting the favorite_list endpoint and document accesses.
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