I'm a creative web technologist.
Informations
- Age: 30
- Based in Berlin, Germany
- French citizenship
- Email: francois at hodierne dot net
Interests
- Web Applications
- Open Source
- Open Platforms
- Open Formats
Technical Skills
- HTML/CSS expert
- PHP/MySQL developer
- JS hacker
- Systems & Servers
- HTTP & RESTful web services
- MVC frameworks
- Zend, Symfony, Rails, Django
- Emerging technologies
- currently: HTML5, oAuth, openID, OpenSocial
- in the past: RSS, Atom, Atompub
Professional Career
h6e.net 'Open source, Web applications, Platforms'
Consultant, Web Developer (since November 2008)
- Free Lance activity
- Open Source contributions
- Bootstrapping new projects
Netvibes.com 'Personalised page pionneer'
Chief Architect (January 2006 - November 2008)
- Tech lead
- hiring
- architecture
- technical strategy
- development & production workflow
- Universal Widget API
- a simple - web standards based - cross-platform - widget API
- Widget development
- with high quality guidelines, eg Twitter
- Netvibes.org
- released the 'Netvibes Platform' as open source, see announcement
- Localisation
- build a web based gettext compatible translation application: translate.netvibes.com
- Mobile
Upian.com 'Fantastic web studio'
Lead developer (October 2001 - October 2006)
Upian is an independant web studio, mostly working with interactive agencies, but also creating awarded projects of their own.
From 2001 to 2006, I was involved in nearly every web projects, providing technical guidance and web development, see upian.com.
Extra Projects
La Distribution 'Web applications distribution'
Founder (since January 2009)
- Bootstrapping the project
Blogmarks.net 'Social bookmarking web application'
Founder (since January 2004)
- Co-founded the project and still acts as a project leader & front developer.
- First version launched in february 2005 and a second in may 2006.
- Development is currently on hold, but a re-lauch as an open source project is in the pipe.
Rojo-Magazine.com 'Independent creative consortium'
Webmaster (since November 2005)
- Help the ROJO® team deal with web technologies.
- Develop & maintain the website code - aiming to keep things clean and simple.
Education
- Gobelins, L'école de l'image - University of Paris VIII, France
- Licence (3 year university degree): Online Digital Creation and Development (2003)
- University Institute of Technology, Meaux, France
- DUT (2 year technical degree): Communication Networks and Services (2001)
- Lycée Charles de Gaulle, Caen, France
- Baccalauréat (high-school diploma): Mathematics and physics (1999)