Mikael Popowicz
Lead Developer at Big Boss Studio
Greater Paris Metropolitan Region France
Summary
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Top SchoolMikael Popowicz is a Lead Developer based in the Greater Paris area with 11 years of experience building backend systems in PHP/Laravel, GraphQL and Vue.js, and a track record of production work with MySQL/MariaDB, MongoDB, Redis and Docker. He has progressed from hands-on backend roles to leadership positions at BBS, OCUS and Big Boss Studio, consistently shipping maintainable, well-documented features and infrastructure. An active open-source contributor, Mikael has improved developer experience in widely used Laravel projects such as facade/ignition and laravel/valet, adding clearer validation messages and flexible local proxy management. Comfortable across freelance, enterprise and startup contexts, he pairs pragmatic engineering with an eye for developer tooling and maintainability. Notably, his background includes automating architecture tooling and enterprise integration scripts, reflecting a blend of systems thinking and practical delivery.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Master en informatique, Master en informatique at EPITA: Ecole d'Ingénieurs en InformatiqueBTS SIO Informatique, BTS SIO Informatique at Iris
Github Skills (16)
error-handling10
php10
macos10
nginx10
exception-handling10
laravel10
laravel-mix10
testing10
refactor9
cli9
command-line9
validation9
validations9
refactoring9
command-line-interface9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
laravel/valet
Nov 2020 - Apr 2021
A more enjoyable local development experience for Mac.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:7 reviews, 25 commits, 2 PRs in 5 months
Contributions summary:Mikael's commits primarily focus on enhancing the Laravel Valet tool, a local development environment. They implemented the functionality to create and manage unsecure (HTTP) proxies, improving the tool's flexibility for various development scenarios. Further contributions include refining documentation (PHPdoc) and adding features for loopback configuration and management. They also addressed bugs and refactored certain parts of the codebase to improve performance.
vagrantlocal-developmentphpmactrellis
facade/ignition
Sep 2019 - Sep 2019
A beautiful error page for Laravel apps
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:13 commits, 3 PRs, 10 comments in 10 days
Contributions summary:Mikael focused on improving the error handling and developer experience within the Laravel-based error page application. They implemented more informative error messages for common validation issues, including unknown or incorrect validation rules. The contributions also involved adding support for validation extensions and refining existing code through style fixes and refactoring to increase the application's overall maintainability and robustness.
error-pagelaravel-appsphpflareerror
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