Romain Lavoix
  • @romainlavoix
Hi there 👋

I'm a Full-Stack Engineer and Produt Owner, Experienced in both Enterprise Softwares, and Web Applications.
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Aiming for a Front-End Engineering specialization.
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I live in Nouméa, New Caledonia
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NOW
  • 🏝 I'm just coming out of a 2 years long sabbatical.
  • 💁‍♂️ My past experience defines me as a full stack engineer / product owner
  • ⚙️ However I'm looking at getting specialized in Front-End Engineering, as I really enjoy being close to the end-user experience.
  • 💻 I live in New Caledonia, and open to work remotely.

PAST
  • 👨‍🎓 A proud graduate of EPITA 2009.
  • 🇮🇳 Former software engineer intern at Siemens Information Systems Ltd in Bangalore, India.
  • 🏦 Former Java Engineer working for Calypso Technology, San Francisco. Clients included Goldman Sach and Natixis.
  • 🧐 Former OCTO Technology Australia consultant. Clients included Qantas and the Australian Mutual Provident Society.
  • 🔎 Developed from scratch Qwarx.nc a search engine dedicated solely to New Caledonia. link1, link2, link3
  • 📖 Developed the front-end part of Rendezvous.nc, the main online appointment website in New Caledonia.
  • 🐞 Former Developer of the crowd-testing platform Testeum, a tech startup from New Caledonia.
  • 🚕 Former investor at Pickme.nc, the first ride hailing service in New Caledonia.
  • 🤖 Teaching of robotics to high school students during summer vacations.

MORE
  • ⚙️ I have used mainly : Java, Javascript, Python, HTML5, CSS3, React, CRA, Next, Node, Scrapy, AWS, Algolia.
  • 🌍 I love the JAM Stack, serverless functions, progressive web apps, and hybrid front-end frameworks (Static Generation and Server Side Rendering).
  • ⚡️ Obsessed with fast rendering, always aiming for 90+ performances in Google Lighthouse.
  • ☀️ Early user of Material-UI (I started when its grid system was still in beta) and NextJS (Used it when Vercel was called Zeit, before their migration from auto-scaling servers to a severless architecture).
  • 🌱 Continuous learner.
  • 💁‍♂️ Fun fact: I worked in 5 different countries (USA, Australia, France, India, New Caledonia).

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Resume

Oct 2019 - Jun 2020

Solution Architect, tealforge

Mar 2017 - Dec 2019

CTO, ClacTaCom

Mar 2016 - Sep 2016

Software Engineer, Octo Technology

Aug 2010 - Mar 2014

Software Engineer, calypso technology

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I got hired at Calypso Technology in San Francisco as a junior software engineer. At that time, I was just out of school, having graduated with a master's degree in software engineering from EPITA....
As an associate and software engineer at TealForge, a development firm aimed at startups, I helped design and develop a crowd testing web app testeum, with the added value of having its tests resul...
I have managed the release of a booking appointment web app, as a front-end developer / jack of all trade (I handled the app design, developed the whole front-end app, managed a distant back-end de...
I taught Scratch programming using Arduino robots, to middle-high school level students, during school holidays. It was quite challenging since I started from scratch, and had to keep several class...