Lucas KERDONCUFF

Context of the project: IPM is one of the major news companies in Belgium

I worked on the migration from their own back office to ARC solution (used and developed by the Washington Post)

The back office is used by the journalists to write articles, classify them, publish them in specific sections, and more

Team: 8/10 Developer

Achievements: Migrating all the data from one backoffice to the other, with more than 15 years of datas. Worked also on the implementation of widgets used by ARC, and new services

• Worked with the Washington Post team to integrate their software
• Implementation of Spring Batches to migrate 15+ years of datas
• Learn React and Javascript
• Implementation of new services using React and Java
• Creation of CI/CD pipelines to follow up JIRA tickets for the team

Technical environment / methodologies:

• JAVA/J2EE, SPRING (BATCH, SECURITY, WEB FLOW, WEB SERVICES, SCDF), REACT, JAVASCRIPT, MAVEN, GRADLE, ANSIBLE, GIT, APACHE SERVER, NGINX, AWS Elastic Beanstalk
• JIRA, CONFLUENCE, BITBUCKET, JENKINS, INTELLIJ

Context of the project: Traveling throughout South America (French Guiana, Suriname, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Argentina, Chile) in a VW Combi T2.

I traveled the first 5 months by backpack, then my girlfriend and I bought a van in Colombia to travel all the way South.

It was an amazing experience and I learned a lot about myself and other cultures

Achievements: 25000 kms on a VW Kombi from Colombia to Patagonia, from the coast to 5000m mountains, through the rain, the sun and the snow

• Be more open-minded, easy going and confident
• Learning about South America cultures
• Time and budget management
• Learning Spanish, a bit of Portuguese
• Basic mechanic skills

Technical environment / methodologies:

• A VW Combi T2, amazing people and landscapes; Spanish and Portuguese environment, day to day life

Context of the project: Worked on different projects for Buy Way or Carrefour Finance, both are consumer credit companies

Team: 7-8 Medior/Senior Developers

Achievements: Added new financial products in regards to the high level of security and quality needed

• Developing new financial products, new functionalities and new improvements
• Learning the new world of finance
• Improving testing method due to high risk
• Leading junior developer

Technical environment / methodologies:

• Java EE7, SVN, Agile, Wildfly, REST API, Hibernate

Context of the project: Worked on the Sodexo application managing the Lunch/Eco/Gift passes. Specifically on the core system handling: the process of ordering, billing, client’s contracts, affiliate’s contracts, and beneficiaries’ information

Team: 7-8 Medior/Senior Developers

Achievements: Refactoring the application to make it easier to add new electronic products. Upgrade the java libraries to reduce the technical debt. Improve the application both in quality and in maintainability

• Refactoring the backend to make it more generic, to add new products easily
• First Eco pass, then Gift pass were added successfully with minor effort
• Upgrade the java libraries (5 years of technical debt), and upgrade from Java 7 to Java 8
• Review the JIRA workflow from demand to release, to automate most common action, and to move towards continuous integration with GoCd
• Development of new functionalities (technical and functional analysis)
• Technical support
• Working with a project manager, architect, and business on the early phase of a new project (helping with technical decisions, and functional requirements)

Technical environment / methodologies:

• JAVA/J2EE, SPRING (BATCH, SECURITY, WEB FLOW, WEB SERVICES), ACTIVE MQ, HIBERNATE, JPA, JUNIT, POWERMOCK, MOCKITO, MAVEN, GIT, ORACLE, APACHE SERVER, JSP, JSF, LIQUIBASE, XML, XLS
• JIRA, CONFLUENCE, CRUCIBLE, FISHEY, GOCD, NEXUS, INTELLIJ, JENKINS, SONAR

Context of the project: Worked on the Bookvideo administration webapp (CMS). Bookvideo has the purpose to replace the paper menu in a restaurant by one on a tablet device, allowing the restaurateur to design his own menu, and update it live.

Team: I and 2 trainee developers

Achievements: Analyze, develop and maintain the Web application from scratch

• Analyze the requirements with the final users
• Develop the backend (express/nodejs/mongodb)
• Develop the frontend (angularjs/HTML5/CSS3)
• Responsible for the maintenance, analyze and bugs fixing

Technical environment / methodologies:

• ANGULARJS, EXPRESS, NODEJS, MOONGOOSE, MONGODB, HTML5, CSS3, WEBSTORM

Context of the project: Worked on the Adneom application allowing an interaction between Adneom – clients and consultants.

Team: 5-6 Junior/Medior Developers

Achievements: Improve the application both in quality and in maintainability. Development of a new IOS/Android mobile app

• Refactoring the backend to respect the MVC architecture
• Add Junit tests with DbUnit to improve the code quality
• Add hibernate ORM with JPA to improve the performance and maintainability
• Development of new functionalities
• Development of the new mobile app for IOS and Android

Technical environment / methodologies:

• JAVA/J2EE, SPRING, SPRING MVC, HIBERNATE, JPA, SERVLETS, JETTY, JUNIT, DBUNIT, MOCKITO, MAVEN, GIT, MYSQL, ANGULAR.JS, IONIC, HTML5/CSS3, SCRUM

Context of the project: Worked on a Renault project (RLink) allowing the Renault customers to have a tablet device with internet access on their cars.

Team: 15-20 people working in different sites

Achievements: Participate in all stages of the project (from requirements to maintenance). Improve and develop the core system which handles more than 150,000 vehicles. Define the specifications with Renault and the costing

• Attending meetings with the client to define the specifications of the new requirements
• Providing a complete technical/ functional documentation
• Writing guidelines/ new procedures
• Analyzing the business requirements
• Developing in Java allowing the system to manage application subscription, vehicles and customers
• Maintaining and Improving application to deliver performance
• Following up the increase connected vehicle (about 150,000) to be sure that the system support the car development
• Implementing an optimized design, technology effective and improved practices
• Replacements of Talend batches made by the Spring Batch, and add functional tests
• Checking the quality of the system via Sonar
• Refactoring the application in order to have a better code
• Ensuring the level support in the analysis of anomalies
• Ensuring all the testing phases

Technical environment / methodologies:

• JAVA/J2EE, SPRING, SPRING BATCH, EJB, TESTNG, JUNIT, MOCKITO, EASYMOCK, HIBERNATE, TAPESTRY, MAVEN, WEB SERVICES (REST, SOAP, WSDL), SSL, JAXB, XML, SOAPUI, CRONTAB, JBOSS, APACHE TOMCAT, JETTY, CFT, MYSQL, GIT, MERCURIAL, SVN