Simon André
Lead Developper at SensioLabs
Rennes, Brittany, France
Summary
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Top SchoolSimon André is a Lead Developer based in Rennes with eight years of professional engineering experience and a longer history of founding and building web projects. Now leading teams at SensioLabs and active on the Symfony UX core team, he blends hands-on backend expertise with open-source advocacy, notably contributing to the high-profile symfony/symfony-docs repository to keep framework documentation accurate and usable. His background spans full-stack and backend roles across agencies and startups, where he has driven delivery, mentoring, and technical writing. Simon pairs practical code leadership with a knack for developer experience—improving docs, tooling, and workflow—and brings academic training from Université de Rennes 1. Colleagues value him for bridging implementation detail and team strategy while championing community quality through open contributions.
8 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master 2 (M2), Master 2 (M2) at Université de Rennes 1Baccalauréat général, Baccalauréat général at Lycée Chateaubriand
English, French
Github Skills (7)
doc10
markdown10
markdown-it10
symfony10
documentation10
symfony-ux10
php8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
symfony/symfony-docs
Oct 2022 - Oct 2022
The Symfony documentation
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:33 reviews, 1 commit, 32 PRs in 1 day
Contributions summary:Simon primarily contributed to the Symfony documentation repository, focusing on refining and updating existing content. Their commits involved correcting namespace references, fixing code block markups, and updating documentation related to various Symfony components like security, console, and asset mapping. The user also made edits to the contributing guidelines and removed outdated references, suggesting a focus on maintaining accurate and up-to-date documentation.
bundlephpsymfonysymfony-bundle
smnandre/symfony-docs
Oct 2022 - Mar 2025
The Symfony documentation
Contributions:74 pushes, 29 branches in 2 years 5 months
bundlephpsymfony-bundledocumentation-sitesymfony
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