Vincent Velociter
Angers, Pays de la Loire, France
Summary
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Top SchoolVincent Velociter is a senior software engineer with 15 years of experience building scalable back-ends and mobile apps, based in Angers, France. He is a lead developer and long-time maintainer of the popular open-source Lichess mobile app (lichobile), contributing both iOS and Flutter work and improving game-sharing, analysis and touch interactions for millions of chess players. His background spans Scala/Play/Akka high-throughput services, AWS serverless stacks, and rich front-end/mobile engineering (React Native, Flutter, touch/drag UX), showing comfort across the full stack. He has delivered data migration and ingestion systems, fuzzy search engines, and task orchestration using DynamoDB, Step Functions and WebSockets. Vincent combines deep practical knowledge of performance-sensitive systems with a knack for developer-facing tooling (Vim Scala plugin tweaks), reflecting both user empathy and attention to low-level detail.
15 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Licence, Histoire, Licence, Histoire at Université d'AngersLicence 3 Communication, Étude de la communication et des médias, Licence 3 Communication, Étude de la communication et des médias at IUP Infocom RoubaixDUT Information - Communication, Documentation d'entreprise, DUT, DUT Information - Communication, Documentation d'entreprise, DUT at Université François Rabelais de ToursLicence, Informatique, Licence, Informatique at Université Paris 8 (IED)
English, German, French
Github Skills (31)
json10
chessboard10
javascript10
ios10
mobile-development10
apidoc10
flutter-apps10
vimscript10
typescript10
user-interface10
ui-design10
scala10
regular-expression10
blackboard10
chess10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
lichess-org/mobile
Nov 2022 - Jan 2023
Lichess mobile app v2
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (Flutter)
Mobile Developer (Flutter)Contributions:43 releases, 507 reviews, 298 commits in 2 months
Contributions summary:Vincent's contributions focus on the development of the Lichess mobile app, specifically utilizing the Flutter framework. The primary task involved initiating the Flutter project, laying the groundwork for the application's UI, and integrating necessary dependencies like localization packages. The user's work is reflected in the creation of core Flutter app components and the integration of essential project setups for Android and iOS, showing a foundational role in mobile application development using Flutter.
lichess-mobilereact-nativedartandroidmobile-app
lichess-org/lichobile
May 2014 - Dec 2022
lichess.org mobile application
Role in this project:Mobile Developer (iOS)
Mobile Developer (iOS)Contributions:74 releases, 42 reviews, 5529 commits in 8 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Vincent was responsible for implementing and enhancing the share functionality within the Lichess mobile application, including the addition of options to share annotated PGN and FEN data. They modified the analysis menu, and added functionality for sharing URLs and annotated PGNs. Additionally, they worked on fixes and enhancements to the app, as well as incorporating features to allow players to more easily share games.
iosionic-capacitorcapacitorjavascriptlichess
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