Xavier Briand
Director Of Software Engineering at OpenClassrooms
Nantes, Pays de la Loire, France
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Top SchoolXavier Briand is a seasoned software engineering leader with 15 years of experience building scalable SaaS platforms, developer tooling, and operational practices from the ground up. Currently Director of Software Engineering at OpenClassrooms, he has a track record of transforming siloed DevOps groups into enabling and platform teams that empower product teams to own delivery, security, and operations. He blends hands-on technical design (cloud architecture, Kubernetes, Terraform, CI/CD) with people-focused leadership—designing individualized growth plans and coaching high-potential engineers. Past roles include leading foundation/platform teams at Akeneo and driving product-led DevOps and DDD adoption at ExperiencePoint, demonstrating a strong bias for pragmatic craftsmanship and measurable outcomes. Based in Nantes, France, Xavier also brings an unusual mix of creative interests—gardening and TTRPG design—that inform his systems-thinking and user-centered approach to software and organisation design.
15 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
2 years professional degree network and telecoms, 2 years professional degree network and telecoms at Université de Caen NormandieFrench high-school diploma Science, French high-school diploma Science at Lycée A. MauroisBachelor's degree Computer Science and Digital Image Engineering, Bachelor's degree Computer Science and Digital Image Engineering at Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne
Japanese, German, English, French
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Github Skills (52)
symfony-bundle10
bundle10
php-framework10
php10
symfony10
javascript9
typescript9
bash-completion9
bash9
angular9
shell9
react8
ratchet8
nodejs8
bash-configuration8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
xavierbriand/._.
Oct 2018 - Jun 2023
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Contributions:1 PR, 23 pushes, 6 branches in 4 years 9 months
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