Romain Gallet
Staff Engineer at Foyer Group
Luxembourg
Summary
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Top SchoolRomain Gallet is a Staff Engineer with 13 years of experience designing and operating high-throughput, resilient streaming and identity platforms for media, fintech and publishing customers. He has led architecture and delivery of large-scale systems—from an 800M+ user OpenID SSO at Disney Streaming to sub-15-minute materialised analytics views and real-time Kafka/Kinesis pipelines across multiple companies. A pragmatic polyglot (Scala, Java, Groovy) and strong advocate of TDD and Agile practices, he pairs hands-on coding with platform-level thinking to make systems testable and maintainable. He has a history of modernising legacy stacks into ES6 modules and stream-first architectures and has contributed front-end commercial and ad integrations to high-profile projects like The Guardian. Based in Luxembourg, he blends technical depth with cross-functional coaching and a knack for turning complex data flows into operational, GDPR-aware solutions.
14 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Digital marketing and project management, Master's degree, Digital marketing and project management at HEC School of ManagementMaster of Science (M.Sc.), IT Engineering, Master of Science (M.Sc.), IT Engineering at Université de Picardie Jules Verne (Amiens)Master's degree, Digital marketing and project management, Master's degree, Digital marketing and project management at Telecom ParisTechMaster of Science (M.Sc.), IT Engineering, Master of Science (M.Sc.), IT Engineering at University of GreenwichBachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computer sciences, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computer sciences at University of Birmingham
French, English, Luxembourgish
Github Skills (7)
s610
javascript10
integrations10
advertising10
html9
css9
react4
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
guardian/frontend
Jan 2016 - Jan 2019
The Guardian DotCom.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:360 commits in 3 years
Contributions summary:Romain primarily contributed to the front-end of the application, focusing on the commercial modules and ad integrations. They implemented new ad slots, updated existing ones, and integrated viewability tracking. Significant changes involved refactoring and transforming legacy JavaScript code into ES6 modules, along with updates to styling and creative templates within the application. These changes suggest a focus on improving the functionality and maintainability of the commercial advertising components.
productionguardian
grumlimited/authenticator-rs
Jun 2020 - Nov 2022
TOTP MFA/2FA application written in Rust and GTK3
Contributions:168 releases, 1 review, 166 commits in 2 years 5 months
gtkrusttotpmfa2fa
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