Jérome Beau

Jérome Beau

Software engineer in Nanterre, France

About

+25 years of front and back development experience, leading and motivating developers teams. I design my projects to stay maintainables and allow integrating changes quickly. Spécialised in standard and vanilla web. I can handle a project from requirements definition to production.

Side Projects

2020

Facts representation API

2019

Data extraction and consultation from an old ufological database.

2017

Automate things the way you think about them.

2007

Java port of "Stellarium" C++ planetarium, using JOGL

2002

A tool for reporting UFO sightings visually

2002

A meta-framework to aggregate existing ufological databases

2000
RR0

A personal encyclopaedia, focused on margin topics such as ufology, cryptozoology, paranormal, etc.

Speaking

2008
San Francisco, CA

Presentation and showcase of Stellarium for Java

Writing

2022

Is it as hard as you think?

2021

What is the difference, and should we care?

2021

Where are you talking from?

2021

What many developers do, whereas they should not.

2020

To better understand CSS, let's try to refactor it.

2020

On the strange habits of recruiters, from a developer candidate point of view.

2020

Simples rules of thumb to properly implement resource allocation and release.

2020

A software design principle that should be used all the time, even when not building software.

2020

On the subjectivity about what is simple and what is not, and how it can lead to wrong choices.

2020

Dismissing misconceptions and prejudices about frontend work

2020

About all the drawbacks optionality or defaults can arise in programming.

2020

A rationale for not always using third-party dependencies, at least directly.

2020

On the real impact of the quick & dirty strategy over time, with numbers.

Awards

2019

Online training course on ML by Andrew Ng

2002
Websphere Certified Developer from IBM

Features

2021
2002

French interview featuring two experts of the aforementioned platforms, discussing the probable future for them.

Work Experience

2022 — 2023
Paris
  • web3 toolkit
  • web wallet
2021 — 2022
Paris

Beam app web UI & website frontend

2019 — 2021
Paris, France

Built the full stack of Knowledge Management product (using a NLP backend) and the MLOps architecture to manage ML models lifecycle.

2015 — 2018
Nanterre, France

Built hybrid (native mobile + web) frontend for that family private social network (posts, photos, mail) and genealogy management.

2013 — 2014
Levallois-Perret, France

Frontend apps & hybrid (phonegap) prototypes about hotel booking, travel itineraries. Backend connectors to new hotel providers.

2010 — 2012
Paris, France

Full stack evolution of parental control software (Java + native on MacOS and Windows). Improved CI with automatic testing & documentation.

2003 — 2010
Nanterre, France

Tech management of core & ORM modules of the Java Data Object mapping product.

1998 — 2002
Courbevoie, France

Consultant, developer & trainer. Managed the EJB & J2EE training course at the european level.

1997 — 1998
Developer at SQL Tech
Paris, France

Led the company's Java expertise center (consulting & training) & developed a few projects like Chronopost online parcel tracking.

1997 — 1997
Intern at IBM
Courbevoie

Helped to fasten Java apps, then implemented the web port of Billetel, the booking app by FNAC.

Education

1994 — 1997
Versailles

Public engineer degree with professors from the University PRISM laboratory, such as George Gardarin (Databases) or Guy Pugeolles (Networks).

1992 — 1994
1991 — 1992
Paris, France

Mecanic & Electric engineering. Developed a PB-15 IDE with simulator, as well as a 1-bit microprocessor IDE that won an education award and was used in regular courses.

Contact

StackOverflow
CodePen
Twitter
LinkedIn
GitLab
GitHub

Teams

Past
Beam