François Hodierne

Summary

I'm an enthusiastic creative web developer.

I have a proven ability to get things done and am actively seeking new challenges.

Informations

• Age: 28
• Based in Berlin, Germany
• French citizenship
• Email: francois at hodierne dot net

Interests

• Web Applications
• Open Source
• Open Platforms
• Open Formats

Technical Skills

• XHTML/CSS expert
• PHP/MySQL senior 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
• Independent 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
  • prototyped and launched the 'wap' & iphone versions of netvibes

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)

• One click install for PHP web applications, and more ...

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.

Teaching

Gobelins, Paris.

• 2006: XML technologies & Introduction to Ajax
• 2003: Content Syndication with RSS

Ecole Marise Eloy, Paris.

• 2006: Workshop on User Interfaces

Publications

OpenWeb.eu.org

• 2004: Building advanced RSS 1.0 feeds (french)
• 2004: Introduction to Content Syndication with RSS (french)

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)