Guillaume Breux

Brussels, Belgium

Member since February 24, 2018

Guillaume started his career as a graphic designer and photographer which enabled him to cultivate a critical eye for striking imagery and gorgeous designs. He then started studying web design and fell in love with the development world. He has been working as a full-time freelancer for a few years now—helping people to build brilliant interfaces that balance beauty, performance, and accessibility.

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Portfolio

Once
React, Angular, Jekyll, Webflow
Crokmou
Hugo, JavaScript

Experience

Photoshop 2018, 10 years
CSS3, 4 years
Responsive UI, 4 years
jQuery, 4 years
HTML5, 4 years
JavaScript, 4 years
React, 3 years
Webflow, 1 year

Availability

Part-time

Preferred Environment

Mac, IntelliJ, Git

The most amazing...

...thing I've built is a food blog which involved a migration from WordPress and ended up with an almost-perfect score on a Lighthouse audit.

Employment

Web Developer
2015 - PRESENT
Once
- Developed a web application that creates a similar UX to a full desktop experience.
- Built an internal dashboard for the moderators.
- Constructed a full static landing page using a static website generator.
- Developed multiple small applications for public relations (PR) stuff.
- Created all the marketing and transactional emails.
Technologies: React, Angular, Jekyll, Webflow
Web Developer
2017 - 2017
Crokmou
- Transferred all the content from WordPress to Markdown using custom Node.js scripts.
- Developed the blog based on provided designs using the mobile first and BEM methodologies.
- Implemented a Lighthouse audit to reach a nearly perfect score.
- Reduced the page load from 19 seconds to less than 2 seconds in a 3G network using all the best practices available.
- Created an automated deployment process to deploy changes with every image uploaded to a particular repository; all server less.
Technologies: Hugo, JavaScript

Experience

Crokmou (Development)
https://crokmou.com/
Crokmou is a French food-and-travel blog that displays a lot of beautiful pictures. There is a great number of recipes to give you ideas about what to cook tonight. Everything is built serverless to provide a super fast and reliable experience.
One-badge (Development)
https://one-badge.com
Ever been tired of dealing with store badges especially if you need to translate them? One-badge allows you to get a single link per store and will display an official translated badge for Android or iOS.
Client-side vs Server-side vs Pre-rendering for Web Apps (Publication)
https://www.toptal.com/front-end/client-side-vs-server-side-pre-rendering
There's no question that user experience is impacted by perceived load times. With today's heavier front ends, client-side rendering doesn't feel very fast. In this article, Toptal Freelance Front-end Developer Guillaume Breux compares client-side, server-side, and pre-rendering strategies to help you choose the best option for your own app.

Skills

Languages
JavaScript, HTML, CSS, HTML5, SCSS, CSS3, Less
Frameworks
Redux, Bootstrap
Libraries/APIs
Flexbox, React, jQuery
Tools
Sketch, Photoshop 2018, Figma, Git
Paradigms
BEM, Search Engine Optimization (SEO)
Other
SVG, PSD Slicing, Responsive UI, CSS Grid
Platforms
Webflow

Education

Internship in Web Design and Front-end Development
2014 - 2015
CEPEGRA | Center Competence Forem Cepegra - Brussels, Belgium
Bachelor's degree in Photography
2010 - 2013
INRACI | Institut National de Radioélectricité et Cinématographie - Brussels, Belgium
Bachelor's degree (unfinished) in Computer Graphics
2009 - 2010
HEAJ | Haute École Albert Jacquard - Namur, Belgium