Pierre Allard
Senior Software Engineering at Akeneo: The Product Experience Company
Nantes, Pays de la Loire, France
Summary
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Top SchoolPierre Allard is a seasoned senior software engineer and long-time web pioneer with 11+ years of professional experience and a PhD in computer science. Based in Nantes, he has grown through technical roles at Akeneo—from core developer to lead and now senior engineer—driving backend improvements and codebase cleanups for a major open-source PIM used by many enterprises. Comfortable across Ruby on Rails and PHP-era web stacks, he pairs production engineering with systems maintenance, CI, and performance work dating back to the Netscape era. An active contributor to Akeneo’s community repo, he focuses on pragmatic refactoring (dead code removal, pagination cleanups) that improves maintainability and developer velocity. Outside of work he still builds small websites and contributes to free projects, reflecting a durable curiosity for the web and practical craftsmanship.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science at Université de Rennes ILicentiate degree, Computer Science, Licentiate degree, Computer Science at Université d'AngersBaccalauréat, Sciences de l'Ingénieur, Baccalauréat, Sciences de l'Ingénieur at Chevrollier
French, English
Github Skills (6)
code-optimization10
php10
maintenance10
symfony10
code-cleanup10
symfony-ux10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
akeneo/pim-community-dev
Sep 2015 - Jan 2023
[Community Development Repository] The open source Product Information Management (PIM)
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 releases, 754 reviews, 4375 commits in 7 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Pierre primarily contributed to code related to dead code removal and other clean-up tasks within the Akeneo PIM community development repository. They removed useless actions, dead code, and methods related to pagination. The changes were focused on code maintenance and optimization. The files modified indicate interactions with the backend, including controllers and query builder utilities.
ziggyinformation-managementjavascriptphpbackbonejs
pierallard/akeneo-game-jam-4
May 2017 - Sep 2017
Contributions:65 commits, 11 PRs, 49 pushes in 3 months
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