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Laurent Senta, Distributed Systems Developer in Lyon, France
Laurent Senta

Distributed Systems Developer in Lyon, France

Member since June 6, 2017
Laurent is a full-stack developer with a specialization in distributed systems. He's confident with front-end technologies like TypeScript, React, and React Native. He's been working on back-end software for more than seven years with Python, Java, and various big data and decentralized systems. His projects generally involve software architecture for complex businesses, rapid development for MVPs, quality tooling with testing, and continuous integration.
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Portfolio

  • SingularGarden
    Marketing, Prototyping, Decentralized Systems, Blockchain
  • SUNDAY
    Python, Flask, React, Google Cloud
  • BIOGEN
    JavaScript, TypeScript, React, AWS, Next.js, GraphQL, AWS DynamoDB

Experience

Location

Lyon, France

Availability

Part-time

Preferred Environment

GitHub, Git, IntelliJ, MacOS, Unix

The most amazing...

... error I fixed was in HAProxy (used by Airbnb and Twitter) after going through the full stack, from the Java HBase code down to the TCP packets.

Employment

  • Owner/Consultant

    2017 - PRESENT
    SingularGarden
    • Served as a consultant for decentralized and distributed systems technologies.
    • Provided research and development, market research, prototyping, content marketing, writing, and additional services relating to the design, build, and deployment of blockchains.
    • Built applications using Electron, React, React Create App, and Next.js.
    Technologies: Marketing, Prototyping, Decentralized Systems, Blockchain

  • Senior Full-stack Engineer and Architect

    2021 - 2021
    SUNDAY
    • Planned, designed, and released new features as a full-stack engineer using React and Flask.
    • Developed a workflow to help the team document and integrate 10+ different APIs by generalizing our internal specs.
    • Served on architecture and software design to help the team implement the new generalized framework using mob programming, peer programming, and more.
    Technologies: Python, Flask, React, Google Cloud

  • Senior Full-stack Engineer

    2020 - 2020
    BIOGEN
    • Developed and maintained a React and Next.js application dealing with multiple countries and languages.
    • Architected and owned the DynamoDB and Functions back end. Implemented data models adapted for large-scale meeting scheduling, CRM-like data models, and more.
    • Provided TypeScript coaching for the rest of the team, code generation, and data models mapping with our CMS.
    Technologies: JavaScript, TypeScript, React, AWS, Next.js, GraphQL, AWS DynamoDB

  • Senior Architect

    2019 - 2020
    Cascade8
    • Trained junior developers to work with Angular, Firebase, and decentralization.
    • Acted as an interim CTO for software design and architecture of the app.
    • Implemented front end components in Angular and AngularFirestore.
    • Maintained the CircleCI and Jenkins systems that check PRs and auto-deployed code.
    • Implemented and supported the QA and release process.
    • Worked on data storage facilities, backup, data migrations, and more.
    Technologies: Cloud Firestore, JavaScript, TypeScript, Angular, Firebase, Decentralization

  • Decentralized System Architect

    2019 - 2019
    3box
    • Designed and coded for a pinning service for IPFS/ORBITDB using AWS, Typescript, and JavaScript.
    • Implemented an encryption workflow for a Decentralized ID system.
    • Contributed to the architecture and design for the decentralized data storage platform.
    Technologies: OrbitDB, IPFS, JavaScript, TypeScript, Blockchain, Decentralization

  • Data Engineer

    2018 - 2018
    colony.io
    • Built a decentralized product with heavy cost and latency constraints.
    • Collaborated with product, design, and development teams around a data model description.
    • Designed and built a distributed service to keep decentralized OrbitDB stores always online.
    • Created the DAPP data back-end using OrbitDB and React.
    Technologies: IPFS, OrbitDB, Redis, React, Decentralized Systems, Blockchain

  • Co-Founder

    2017 - 2018
    Starfish Blockchain
    • Helped customers understand their IT infrastructure and GDPR alerts.
    • Headed market research and business development.
    • Designed and developed a cartography system for the IT infrastructure.
    • Provided static and runtime analysis for GDPR compliance.
    Technologies: Python, Static Analysis, CouchDB, Hyperledger, Blockchain

  • Data Storage Platform Owner

    2015 - 2017
    ScrapingHub
    • Founded the Storage Platform.
    • Transitioned to Docker and added CI systems.
    • Designed and released distributed synchronization algorithms.
    • Maintained the Storage API and Platform, bug fixes, and new features.
    • Discovered and resolved an issue in HAProxy relating to an RFC-implementation mistake on retries policies and REST APIS.
    • Designed and released a testing framework for microServices and Kafka systems.
    Technologies: REST APIs, Java, Python, Apache Kafka, HBase, Apache ZooKeeper, Docker

  • Data Engineer

    2013 - 2014
    Turn Inc
    • Replaced a large part of the codebase (15+K LOC) by a DSL and custom compiler.
    • Optimized a large-scale database (PETABYTES).
    • Completed the feedback loop from a workload analysis to optimize execution.
    • Adapted state-of-the-art vertical partitioning algorithms to nested databases.
    Technologies: Metaheuristics, Big Data, Java, Hadoop

Experience

  • Whena.re: Easy to Use Timezones
    https://whena.re

    This is a timezone viewer and sharing product. It makes it easy to see WHEN are the people in my remote team.

    It's built with Next.js, React, MobX, and a library I built to design "orbital data."

  • Clepsydra: Focused Chrome Extension
    https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/clepsydra/jlagbacmpphjengiipimojjibicekmbo

    This is another project part of my "full-stack for real" personal target. This one is a Chrome Extension that lets a user see their "life in blocks." I've found this is a fantastic piece of Software because it triggers a lot of various feelings and discussions from people seeing it or installing it.

    It's a Chrome Extension built with React and CRA.

    Landing: https://www.singulargarden.com/clepsydra/

  • Tickingfocus: Focus Desktop app
    https://www.singulargarden.com/tickingfocus/

    A product to help my coworkers with focus. It is a minimalist Pomodoro. To my knowledge, this is the only timer that always stays on the screen (following the method's creator recommendation). I designed it to be minimal and easy to use.

    It's part of my own "full-stack" training; I used this project to build and release my first Electron application. It's heavy, but this is MVP y-grade software: It took less than three days to create, release, and prove the concept.

    Built with React, MobX, and Electron.

  • Patch.txt

    This patch is a fix I contributed to the HAProxy Open Source project. It's live on Twitter, Airbnb, ScrapingHub, and more.

    My company provides a specialized storage API. Some requests would fail randomly with a cryptic Python exception. Nobody had any idea why. It happened for years, clients would complain but nobody found the source of the bug.

    In the first week on the job, I went from analyzing the upper layer of our stack (Java, Jython, HBase) down to the network TCP frames.

    I discovered a complex combination of
    - special HAProxy case,
    - most HTTP client (WGet, Ruby, etc.) behaving dangerously and against the RFC on retrying POST requests,
    - Python behaving actually correctly but our application was not ready for it.

    I specialize in Python/Java, but if I have to go down TCP frames and C code, I'll do it.

    The best? The patch REMOVES code.

  • Blockchain Learning
    https://www.lsenta.io

    I write about blockchain design and development as a way to share knowledge and do content marketing.

Skills

  • Languages

    TypeScript, JavaScript, ECMAScript (ES6), Python 3, Python, Common Lisp (CL), Java 8, Clojure, Java, GraphQL

  • Paradigms

    Test-driven Development (TDD), Functional Programming

  • Storage

    HBase, HDFS, Distributed Databases, Redis, CouchDB, Cloud Firestore, AWS DynamoDB, Google Cloud

  • Other

    Decentralized Systems, IPFS, Distributed Systems, Prototyping, OrbitDB, Big Data, Metaheuristics, Static Analysis, Decentralization, AWS

  • Frameworks

    Next.js, Hadoop, React Native, Angular, ClojureScript, Flask

  • Libraries/APIs

    React, REST APIs

  • Tools

    Apache ZooKeeper, IntelliJ, Git, GitHub, Sketch

  • Platforms

    Hyperledger Fabric, Blockchain, Firebase, Unix, MacOS, Docker, Hyperledger, Ethereum, Apache Kafka

  • Industry Expertise

    Marketing

Education

  • Master's Degree in Scientific Computation and Image Processing
    2008 - 2013
    EPITA - Paris, France

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