Nicolas Capponi
Senior Software Engineer at ForgeRock
Grenoble, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France
Summary
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Top SchoolNicolas Capponi is a Senior Software Engineer and architect with over a decade of experience designing and delivering large-scale Java backends and web platforms, currently driving engineering work at ForgeRock from Grenoble. He led architecture and platform evolution at Kelkoo—scaling systems to handle 100M+ offers and tens of millions of monthly API calls—while introducing service-oriented design, REST standardization, and a Maven/Puppet-based packaging pipeline that doubled development velocity. With a PhD in AI and an engineering degree, he blends rigorous academic thinking with hands-on development, coaching teams in TDD and agile practices across international environments. Known for pragmatic trade-offs, he focuses on balancing software quality with shipping speed and has a track record of improving developer productivity through tooling and training.
13 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Engineer, Computer sciences, Engineer, Computer sciences at Ecole Supérieure d'Informatique et Applications de Lorraine (ESIAL)PhD in computer science, artificial Intelligence, PhD in computer science, artificial Intelligence at Université Henri Poincaré (Nancy I)
English, French, Italian
Github Skills (11)
opendj10
opends9
parent-pom9
forgerock9
build-configuration9
ldap8
cybersecurity8
security8
csv6
java6
apache3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
WrenArchiver/opendj
Oct 2016 - Nov 2016
Contributions:23 commits in 1 month
ncapponi/ncapponi.github.io
Dec 2019 - Jun 2026
Contributions:18 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 6 months
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