Samuel Roze is a seasoned engineering leader and Co-founder & CTO with 14 years of experience building resilient, developer-friendly systems and scaling teams in health tech. Based in Paris, he combines hands-on backend engineering—contributions to major PHP projects like Symfony, Composer and API Platform—with strategic leadership as former VP of Engineering at Birdie. He excels at translating complex technical and operational challenges into clear strategy, unblocking makers through coaching and pragmatic mentoring. A prolific open-source contributor, his work has improved core developer tools such as the Symfony Web Profiler and Messenger, and added real-world features like local package support in Composer. Samuel blends product-minded engineering (from ContinuousPipe’s Kubernetes pipeline work to production-ready API design) with public-facing advocacy, regularly speaking at conferences and writing documentation. He brings an uncommon mix of deep framework-level expertise and startup build-orientated pragmatism to mission-driven healthcare products.
14 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
DUT en alternance Informatique, DUT en alternance Informatique at Université Polytechnique Hauts-de-France
Contributions:3 releases, 53 commits, 13 PRs in 2 years
Contributions summary:Samuel primarily contributed to the AngularJS-based infinite scroll component, focusing on testing and refining its behavior. Their commits addressed merging pull requests and fixing issues related to the scroll functionality. The user demonstrated proficiency in modifying test configurations and ensuring the component's responsiveness and proper triggering on scrolling events, particularly within test environments. They also made changes to the core component to address bugs and integration issues.
Helps applications send and receive messages to/from other applications or via message queues
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:170 commits, 5 comments in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:Samuel made several contributions related to the Symfony Messenger component. These commits focused on refactoring and improving the AMQP transport adapter. They implemented features to allow for configurable routing keys and support for multiple queues within the transport. Additionally, they added support to configure the serializer's format and context, allowing for customization of message serialization and deserialization.
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