Richard Bayet
Senior Tech Expert at Gally + ElasticSuite
Greater Bordeaux Metropolitan Area France
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolRichard Bayet is a Senior Tech Expert based in Greater Bordeaux with over 10 years' experience building search-driven web platforms and LAMP/open-source solutions. He combines deep backend skills in Magento, Solr/ElasticSearch and MongoDB with practical experience fixing tricky issues like multibyte UTF-8 synonym handling and advanced filter-query operators. At Smile and Gally/ElasticSuite he has driven ElasticSuite backend work, improving merchandising and search for Magento 2 deployments used by production stores. Trained as an engineer (ENSEIRB‑MATMECA) with a background in networks and telecommunications, he brings disciplined architecture and performance focus to large codebases. Colleagues value him for pragmatic problem-solving and attention to edge cases that often evade broader teams. He is fluent in French technical ecosystems and consistently contributes maintainable fixes to open-source search tooling.
10 years of coding experience
DUT ( Junior College ), Telecommunications and Networks Engineering, DUT ( Junior College ), Telecommunications and Networks Engineering at Université Paris-Est CréteilEngineering, Computer Science, Engineering, Computer Science at ENSEIRB-MATMECAComputer Science and Networks Engineering, Computer Science and Networks Engineering at Université Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée
French, English
Github Skills (7)
elasticsearch10
elasticsearchquery10
php10
aws-elasticsearch10
magento10
elasticsearch-api10
amazon-elasticsearch10
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
Smile-SA/elasticsuite
Oct 2018 - Aug 2022
Smile ElasticSuite - Magento 2 merchandising and search engine built on ElasticSearch
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:55 releases, 78 reviews, 287 commits in 3 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Richard primarily focused on backend development within the Magento 2 Elasticsuite environment. Their contributions involved fixing issues related to multibyte UTF8 characters in synonyms, implementing support for negative operators in the filter query builder, and resolving issues with tracker log event indexing. They also addressed bugs related to supporting web/js file relocation.
merchandisingmagento-2magento2search-engineelasticsearch
Smile-SA/magento2-module-elasticsuite-targetrule
Mar 2017 - Sep 2020
Manage Target Rules with ElasticSuite
Contributions:1 release, 30 commits, 9 PRs in 3 years 6 months
ruleselasticsearch
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