Joe Lafrite

Code Review, .NET 7, Angular, Postman, Azure Devops (ticketing + code hosting + pipelines), Windows Server, SQL Server, Windows, MS Office, MS Teams, IRISNext

Migrated various legacy applications and implemented new features:
• PHP 5 to PHP 8.1
• Oracle DB to SQL Server
• SQLite to SQL Server

PHP 5, PHP 8.1, SQL Server, SQLite, Oracle DB, MS Teams, Azure Devops, PHPStorm

Challenging Food Ecommerce platform that needs to be running 24/7, allowing hundreds of restaurants to intake orders and operate flawlessly.

• Led the team to improve the software development practices and implement new ways of working like continuous delivery, zero downtime deployment, automated testing, ...
• Transitioned a VM based infrastructure into a docker based infrastructure (CI/CD, autoscaling for peak times, ...)
• Automated the management of white-labeled mobile apps (Android + iOS) for hundreds of customers.
• All other regular duties of a CTO in a startup :-)

Leadership, Typescript, PHP 7, Laravel, Angular 10, React 18, Nextjs 12, Capacitor, Azure Devops, GitHub, Bitbucket, Sentry, Jira, Confluence, Cypress, Miro, Productboard, Phpstorm, Webstorm, AWS, AWS ECS Fargate, Docker, Postman, Google Workspace, Google Sites, Slack, Discord, Zero Downtime Deployment, Automated Testing, Autoscaling, SaaS Platform

Working on amazing projects with the team of SUDEV SRO.

I can provide project references upon request.

Drupal 7, Drupal 8, Drupal 9, PHP 7, PHP 8, MySQL, MariaDB, Docker, Bitbucket, Slack, Trello, Jira, Basecamp

Part of an exciting journey with the Fire & Security Products team to help the business introduce a new B2B E-commerce platform to the market.

• Work with Business to provide input into the long term e-commerce strategic plans and assist in implementing them in the e-commerce architecture
• Coordinate with the web developers, e-commerce marketing team, and e-commerce analysts for the effective completion and working of the e-commerce application
• Identify potential system performance bottlenecks and resolve them.
• Technical solution and management of Software development
• Supervise the e-commerce developer team and sees to it that the given tasks are completed according to the architecture designed
• Participate in product design meetings. Give technical advice to the organization. Provide architecture oversight of software development projects
• Provide technical leadership for the rest of the onsite team as well as the offshore team during the implementation effort, manage internal and external technical resources (both associates, vendors, etc.)
• Work with business analysts to evaluate requests for changes or requests for implementing new systems
• Develops and implements product development strategies using Agile development processes
• Identify, leverage, and successfully evangelize opportunities to improve productivity
• Work with project managers and developers to ensure quality solutions are delivered
• Provide solution architecture for business problems, platform integration with third-party services, designing and developing complex features for clients' business needs
• Engage with business & IT stakeholders to understand required capabilities, integrating business knowledge with technical solutions

Docker, Angular, Drupal, SOA, Decoupled, Jenkins, Acquia, Microsoft Azure, Azure Devops, JIRA, Confluence, Code Review, Functional Testing, Automated Testing, CI/CD

Promoted to provide technical leadership to the Brussels Engineering teams and report directly to the CTO. We work in an Agile environment with the Scrum methodology and operate on an international level (USA, Brussels, India).

Responsibilities:
• Perform manager’s duties such as hiring, conflict resolution, team building, coaching and annual performance review for a team up to 15 FTE
• Local & Remote teams (2 local teams and 1 remote)
• Partner with the scrum master to remove any impediment for the team
• Coordinate with product owners to prioritise work and come up with a clear long term roadmap
• Continuously work with the team to improve processes, groom the backlog and make sure everybody understands the content of stories
• Guidance on technical decisions & directions
• Reviewing Pull Requests when needed
• Supervising deployment of software releases
• Advocate for code quality and best practices, helping the team by implementing static code analysis tools
• Main point of contact for other teams/departments
• Create an inclusive and fun work environment where every employee engages effectively

People Management, Communication, Coaching, Hiring Manager, Motivation, Code Quality, Codacy

Developing a big SaaS platform with the framework Symfony as backend (REST API) and AngularJS as frontend. In charge of code review, validation & deployment of tasks delivered by the team. We do unit testing and functional testing for the critical parts and work in a continuous integration environment.

Responsibilities:
• Coaching & Mentoring of the team (5 devs)
• Technical directions
• Development & Code Review
• Scrum Master + product owner
• Ticket management & documentation writing
• Hiring & training of new team members (technical & personal skills)

Symfony, YII, MySQL, MSSQL, Sqlite, PHP, AngularJS, Unit Test, Functional Test, Jenkins, Vagrant, Puppet, ActiveMQ, GIT, SVN, JIRA, Confluence, Bitbucket Server, Selenium

PHP, SVN, MySQL, MSSQL, Javascript, HTML, CSS, Vagrant, Puppet, JIRA

Working within the implementation team using a home made framework, I implemented dozens of new clients & participated to the maintenance of existing ones.

. Deep use of SVN and merging tools.
. Setup & maintenance of implementations.
. Actively participating to improve the product by working on the current solution architecture, working on new automation tools (big project with YII Framework).

Working for igwane.com made me acquire good skills in Project Management. Organizing projects from start to end, prioritize the work, defining sprints.

Development of web applications using the Symfony 1.4 Framework for dozens of clients with links to external api for shipping & payment such as Paypal, bpost, ...

. Project Management (mostly e-business).
. Client advices for new features.
. Writing technical documentation.
. Web development using PHP, HTML, CSS, Javascript.
. Strong use of Symfony 1.4 framework.
. Import/Export of datas via webservices, csv files.
. Development of Prestashop module to export products from shop to google shopping.
. SEO for e-business websites with hundreds of products.