William Durand
Senior Staff Software Engineer at Mozilla
Greater Clermont-Ferrand Area France
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RockstarWilliam Durand is a Senior Staff Software Engineer with 15 years of experience and a long history of hands-on open source contributions, currently working on Firefox at Mozilla. He blends back-end expertise in PHP and Python with full-stack work across JavaScript and tooling, having authored and maintained libraries like Hateoas and BazingaJsTranslationBundle and contributed to widely used projects such as gecko-dev, web-ext, and addons-server. Will has a strong track record improving developer tools, CI/build processes, and integrations (notably enabling MV3 support and refining web-ext and addon tooling), while also contributing to ORM and pagination libraries like Propel and Pagerfanta. He enjoys mentoring and working in the open, routinely adding tests, documentation, and cross-project integrations that raise long-term maintainability. Based in the Clermont-Ferrand area, he brings a practical, systems-minded approach to shipping reliable features and squashing edge-case bugs across large codebases. A less obvious strength is his breadth: from low-level image-processing helpers to browser extension infrastructure, he moves comfortably between domain-specific problems and platform-scale engineering.
16 years of coding experience
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symfony
top-5%
mime-types
top-5%
php
top-5%
http
top-5%
rest
top-1%
Github Skills (105)
url-routing10
opencv10
python10
image-processing10
testing10
command-line-interface10
http10
proxy10
pagination10
symfony-ux10
database-management10
rest-api10
webextension10
javascript10
jquery10
Programming languages (31)
Github contributions (5)
FriendsOfSymfony/FOSOAuthServerBundle
Dec 2011 - May 2015
A server side OAuth2 Bundle for Symfony
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:132 commits, 3 PRs, 3 pushes in 3 years 5 months
Contributions summary:William's primary contribution focuses on developing and modifying the FOSOAuthServerBundle. The commits demonstrate work on core components such as storage, entity management, and configuration. They are involved in integrating Propel support into the bundle and addressing code style issues. The user's work also involves the creation of tests and ensuring the bundle's functionality.
oauthserver-sidesymfonyphpsymfony-bundle
willdurand/Negotiation
Jan 2013 - Jan 2022
Content Negotiation tools for PHP.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:17 releases, 4 reviews, 163 commits in 9 years 2 months
Contributions summary:William primarily contributed to the development of content negotiation tools for PHP. Their commits focused on modifying the `Negotiator` and related classes to implement and refine the parsing of accept headers, and handling of parameters. The changes included refactoring code, incorporating a data object, and addressing edge cases. They also added tests to ensure correct charset and format negotiation.
content-negotiationphpnegotiation
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