Sylvain Chevalier
Senior Backend Engineer at Yuka
Paris, Ile-de-France
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Top SchoolSylvain Chevalier is a Senior Backend Engineer based in Paris with 12 years of experience building and maintaining robust PHP/Symfony backends for consumer-facing and agency projects. He has driven product reliability and internationalization at Yuka—serving APIs to mobile apps across 11 countries—and later continued as a senior backend engineer at OpenClassrooms. His work blends rigorous engineering practices (BDD/Behat, PHPSpec), CI/CD and DevOps tooling (Docker, Travis/CircleCI, Deployer) with hands-on API and data reliability improvements. Comfortable leading technical backlog work and sprint processes, he pairs engineering discipline with practical product focus to reduce manual admin work and improve scoring accuracy. A longtime advocate for quality code—"Bien coder, c'est le début du bonheur"—he also produced technical tutorials and open-source contributions early in his career, showing a knack for teaching and community engagement. Sylvain’s background in accessibility audits and agency consulting gives him a notable edge in designing systems that are both user- and operations-friendly.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Licence Développement d'applications intranet/extranet, Licence Développement d'applications intranet/extranet at INSSET de Saint-Quentin (02)DUT Informatique option Génie logiciel, DUT Informatique option Génie logiciel at IUT de Nantes
French, English
Github Skills (63)
gaufrette10
behat9
filesystem9
mink9
choices9
media-library9
php9
feast9
php-library9
symfony-bundle8
symfony8
abstraction8
deployer8
nette8
flysystem8
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
Shivoham/dotfiles
Jan 2015 - Dec 2024
Contributions:23 pushes in 10 years
Shivoham/personal-website
Feb 2018 - Jun 2018
Contributions:36 pushes, 2 branches in 3 months
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