Alban Dericbourg, freelance senior software engineer

Fifteen years designing and hardening back-end services, notably in three French unicorns: Criteo, BlaBlaCar and Mirakl.

I reinforce your teams while keeping the problem I’m trying to solve and the value for users front and center: that’s what drives the technical choices, not the other way around. I’m as comfortable with legacy code as with a greenfield project: exploring and modernizing large existing codebases as much as shipping new services into high-traffic distributed systems, and making the whole thing reliable and observable. Reliability is my home turf: I was among the first to roll out SLOs and an SRE approach in several teams, while still drawn to more generalist back-end work.

From the countryside between Poitiers and Angoulême, I work mostly remotely. It’s a way of working I practice with discipline: careful written communication, autonomy, and a culture of cooperation that keeps remote work legible for the whole team. I’m still glad to travel on-site, though: staying connected with my colleagues matters to me.

Beyond the code, I enjoy moving a group forward: clarifying decisions, facilitating discussions and defusing tension. My former teammates put it better than I can: their words are here.

Looking for a software engineer? I’d be glad to talk. If not, maybe you could point me to two people worth reaching out to. :)