Yannick Collen is a seasoned Front End Developer based in Rennes with 11 years of experience building reactive web and mobile interfaces, currently delivering large-scale React/Redux products at Amdocs. He has deep hands-on experience across the Matrix ecosystem, having been the main Android developer for Riot.im and contributing significant UI, media and sync features to both Android and iOS Element clients and SDKs. Comfortable across the stack, Yannick’s background spans embedded C work to modern JavaScript and mobile native development, and he pairs feature delivery with unit testing and code refactoring. A pragmatic polyglot who deliberately rotates languages to stay sharp, he brings strong open-source collaboration skills and experience managing releases, community support and cross-geography teams.
11 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Diplôme d'ingénieur, Architecture Des Machines (ARC), Diplôme d'ingénieur, Architecture Des Machines (ARC) at Université de Rennes I
Contributions:880 commits, 251 PRs, 2216 pushes in 3 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Yannick's commits primarily involve the creation and modification of Java files, indicating a focus on back-end development within the Matrix Android SDK. These changes include the addition of classes, methods, and interfaces related to media caching and content management. The user also worked on core code updates like handling of read receipts and support of the API V2 to improve the SDK functions.
Contributions:365 commits, 514 PRs, 2898 pushes in 2 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Yannick primarily contributed to the `RoomActivity.java` file, making changes related to file handling, UI updates, and video message handling within the Riot-Android application. They worked on integrating video playback functionalities, adding media upload features, and implementing search functionality within the chat history. These commits also involved code refactoring and improvements to the display of user avatars and read receipts, enhancing the overall user experience within the chat interface.
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