Romain Sylvian
Staff Software Engineer at Allergan Aesthetics, an AbbVie Company
Laguna Niguel, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRomain Sylvian is a Staff Software Engineer with 14 years of experience specializing in front-end architecture and developer-facing platforms. He’s led teams of up to 11 engineers to build high-traffic documentation and developer hubs (millions of annual visits) and has launched products from scratch, including a Figma-centered collaboration tool that was later acquired by Adobe. Comfortable across the full JavaScript stack, he has shipped performance optimizations (e.g., 30% faster sync for a desktop client), cross-platform Electron/Windows support, and scalable cloud APIs. Romain blends hands-on coding with engineering leadership—regular one-on-ones, code reviews, and career coaching are core to his management style. Based in Laguna Niguel, he pairs a formal CS education with startup and product experience that spans freelance ventures sold to larger buyers. A pragmatic problem-solver, he focuses on developer experience and measurable performance gains rather than flashy tech for its own sake.
2 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
EpitechDigital Innovation for Business Certificate Digital Marketing & Business, Digital Innovation for Business Certificate Digital Marketing & Business at HEC ParisStartup Engineering Certificate Entrepreneurship Computer Science, Startup Engineering Certificate Entrepreneurship Computer Science at Stanford University
French, English
Github Skills (6)
redoc10
api-documentation10
api-blueprint10
circleci10
jekyll10
documentation10
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (3)
CircleCI-Public/debug-gpt
Jan 2024 - Jan 2024
AI Powered Devtools Extension
Contributions:2 PRs, 1 push, 2 branches in 4 days
circleci/circleci-docs
Oct 2023 - Feb 2024
Documentation for CircleCI.
Contributions:36 reviews, 4 PRs, 13 pushes in 4 months
docsthursdayredocapi-documentationcirclecijekyll
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