Manuel Vila
Founder at 1Place
Paris, Ile-de-France
Summary
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Top SchoolManuel Vila is a veteran founder and full‑stack engineer based in Paris with over 30 years designing and building web, mobile, and desktop applications from concept to production. He has founded multiple companies—including 1Place in France and Japan—and served as CTO on significant projects like Medmain while creating developer-focused open-source tools such as Run and Layr. His work spans product engineering (embedded and web apps), developer productivity platforms, and niche commercial software with demonstrated revenue traction (e-bat sold to 3,000+ customers). An active contributor to notable community projects like the RealWorld demo app, he often focuses on documentation and tooling that improve project maintainability and onboarding. Known for combining entrepreneurial drive with hands-on coding, he brings a pragmatic, systems-minded approach to building platforms that scale for both users and developers.
13 years of coding experience
28 years of employment as a software developer
Self-taught
French, English
Stackoverflow
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598reached
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Github Skills (14)
javascript10
fullstack-development10
full-stack10
documentation9
nodejs8
frontend6
github-ci6
api6
mongodb6
electron6
githubaction-workflow6
angularjs6
shopify6
react5
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
gothinkster/realworld
Oct 2020 - Dec 2022
"The mother of all demo apps" — Exemplary fullstack Medium.com clone powered by React, Angular, Node, Django, and many more
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:5 reviews, 64 commits, 68 PRs in 2 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Manuel's commits primarily involve modifications to the `etc/update-readme.js` file, which suggests contributions related to maintaining and updating the project's documentation and potentially automating the process of displaying information about different implementations within the RealWorld project. They added support for FULLSTACK implementations as well as expanding the support to the leader board layout. The repetitive nature of the "Merge branch 'master' into..." commits suggests the user might be involved in integrating changes and maintaining the main branch. Their work focuses on the presentation and organization of project details.
reactdjango-rest-frameworkdjangojavascriptmother
kinda/kinda-web-sql
Dec 2014 - Sep 2015
Contributions:28 commits, 10 pushes, 11 tags in 9 months
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