Abel Derderian

I joined Beamy in february 2020, at Station F (Paris) as software engineer.. I work on the development of our platforms (in Vue.js, like the cools kids nowadays and NestJS). My daily life focuses on:

- The release of new frontend / backend features

- Performance challenges and optimizations

- Monitoring of deployments via continuous integration and adequate test sets

- Have a critical eye on UX / UI as well as user feedback

- Continue to learn to improve my / our technical pluevalue on a daily basis

- Have a good time with amazing people! I also do technology watch (digital and physical) by attending professional conferences and preparing a blog about it. You have a good chance to meet me in convention (Vue.js Amsterdam, Frontend Love, JSWorld, etc) ! ✨

Internship of 6 months at Gandi, french leading domain name registrar, mentored by Gandi's Front-End Lead Developer. I have first started my internship by building a simple static webpage: Postmaster, which aims at guiding users of Gandi's email offering through solving common email delivery rejections. The page is available in $n languages and leverages React HTML rendering and Gandi's internal UI components library. I then was assigned a more ambitious project, "Gandi in Numbers", which is a project in order to publish information in the form of numbers and statistics about Gandi. I had strong ownership on the creation and development of this project and was abble to be proactive in term of strategic and technical choice. It consists of a React (isomorphic) web application which leverages both client-side and server-side rendering, following a progressive enchancement strategy, and is built on top of a custom technical stack that I have built from scratch with the ambition of turning this stack into a light, re-usable web applications framework. Technical highlights include:

- React & React Redux

- Custom build system using Webpack, to produce optimized client & server JavaScript bundles with Babel, CSS stylesheets with Sass, (s)CSS Modules and PostCSS / Autoprefixer.

- Code quality tooling using ESLint, Flow, Prettier.

- Server side rendering, for performance and accessibilty improvment.

- Node.js web infrastructure with Express.js.

- Creation of specific React Components, leveraging Hooks / Context APIs and Redux

- Uses of React Hooks and Context.

- Unified HTTP requests API both on the server and in the browser using isomorphic-fetch. Data came from a REST API that I wrote in Node.js, which was introduced to proxify internals datas from a distant Prometheus and serve them as an Express middleware. Units test was made with Jest, and the they was typed with Flow, as such as API.

Internship of 5 months in the company Maecia, creator of intranet for large groups as a front-end developer / integrator. Works on the Web integration (HTML5 / CSS3 / JS) and especially on the Vue.js framework.

I was working on creating the best intranet experience for our clients, directly working with them on daily basis.