Mehdi Lahmam
CPTO & Co-founder at La Fabuleuse Cantine
Saint-Étienne, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France
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Top SchoolMehdi Lahmam is a product-minded engineer and founder with 15 years building and scaling web platforms, currently serving as CPTO and co-founder of Grinta in Saint-Étienne, France. He blends hands-on backend engineering (notably improving HTTP handling in the li₃ PHP framework) with strategic product leadership, having led teams to ship APIs, mobile clients, and SaaS offerings for retailers and clubs. Mehdi has a track record of founding and exiting startups, mentoring students as a guest lecturer on APIs and modern product workflows, and serving on multiple boards and investor roles. Comfortable moving between low-level technical fixes and high-level product strategy, he’s known for pragmatic migrations (e.g., SAP to homegrown SaaS) and shipping resilient systems that support thousands of daily users.
15 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Engineer's degree, Engineer's degree at Télécom Saint-Etienne
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application-framework10
testing10
app-framework10
http10
php10
web-framework10
dropbox9
regular-expression9
partials6
nginx6
mongodb6
github6
git6
lithium6
rad5
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
UnionOfRAD/lithium
Jul 2011 - May 2013
li₃ is the fast, flexible and most RAD development framework for PHP
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:48 commits in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:Mehdi primarily focused on enhancing the `lithium` PHP framework, specifically addressing issues related to HTTP responses and content type parsing. Their contributions involved fixing regex patterns, refactoring existing tests, and adding new test cases to improve the accuracy of content-type handling. Moreover, they addressed a regression in the `Response::type()` function, and fixed the setting of the Request CONTENT_TYPE from the environment settings. The user's work centered around improving the framework's robustness and reliability concerning HTTP communications.
phpradframeworkdevelopment-frameworkphp-framework
webenvert/webenvert.fr
Sep 2016 - Oct 2021
Web en Vert community website
Contributions:80 commits, 22 PRs, 166 pushes in 5 years 2 months
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