Vincent Blanchon
Senior Software Engineer at OryxLabs
Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
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Top SchoolVincent Blanchon is a Senior Software Engineer and engineering leader with 14 years of experience building high-quality, production-grade systems and over a decade in software development including five years in management and two years specializing in cybersecurity. Based in Dubai, he led the DNS Firewall squad at OryxLabs, architecting the product from scratch with a strong emphasis on strict RFC compliance, security frameworks and a test-first culture (2,000+ unit tests). Previously he took a small team at Property Finder from prototype to the #1 CRM in the UAE, driving product discovery, OKRs and a robust testing and benchmarking discipline across Go, MongoDB/MySQL and Elasticsearch stacks. A long-time open-source contributor to projects such as Zend Framework and ProxyManager, he has shipped design-pattern-driven improvements, extensive unit tests and null-object proxy implementations used across PHP ecosystems. He’s passionate about making product thinking and testing contagious among engineers, continuously studies cybersecurity, and writes about Go, blending hands-on coding with product and security-minded leadership.
14 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Université Clermont AuvergneMaster 2 (M2) Développement & management, Master 2 (M2) Développement & management at HETIC
French, English
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Github Skills (19)
oop10
unit-testing10
application-framework10
interceptor10
testing10
app-framework10
zend-framework10
aop10
reflection-api10
refactor10
php10
go10
web-framework10
proxy-pattern10
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Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
zendframework/zend-code
Apr 2012 - May 2014
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:27 commits in 2 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Vincent primarily focused on refactoring and improving the Zend Framework's code reflection capabilities. Their work involved cleaning up code, addressing spacing issues, and removing unused "use" statements to enhance code quality and readability. They also contributed by implementing features related to function and method reflection, including retrieving the body and prototype of methods and functions. This involved modifying existing code and adding new test cases to validate the changes.
zendframework/zendframework
Mar 2012 - Nov 2014
Official Zend Framework repository
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:226 commits in 2 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Vincent contributed to the Zend Framework by adding features to the `ConfigListener` class. Their changes involved adding support for static and glob paths for merging configuration files, and introducing new methods (`addConfigStaticPath`, `addConfigStaticPaths`, `addConfigGlobPath`, `addConfigGlobPaths`) to manage these paths. Further contributions involved refactoring the code by adding `ArrayUtils` and including unit tests to test and validate the newly added methods.
zendzend-frameworkphpframeworkmodular
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