Julien Levesy

Involved in the Traefik Enterprise team, I contributed to a large majority of the features embedded in the product. I proposed and implemented many improvements on it and impacted positively its reliability. For instance, I led various efforts like setting up an end to end testing framework or the systematic writing of unit tests. I am also very involved with the support team and regularly participate on client facing calls. Traefik Labs is my first experience in a truly distributed and multicultural company where clear communication and inclusion are a must, and I have to say that I’m loving this kind of environment.

Started first as Software developer, my previous experience with server management made me quickly get involved with the operations as well. I was put in charge of important subjects like moving our ecommerce websites to HTTPS, rewriting and extending several applications as developper and deploying a whole new monitoring system based on Datadog. I also had the opportunity to teach an intern during my time and I found it to be a rewarding experience.

As the first company employee, I was involved in a small distributed team between Lyon and San Francisco. We built from scratch multiple products centered around content marketing and native advertising and it finaly lead the Upfluence software to be one of the most powerful influencer search engine available. My position was fullstack developer and I worked on a complex applicative stack involving numerous microservices written in 4 major differents languages, golang included. This was also my first experience with production and gave me the opportunity to learn cutting edge subjects like containers, orchestration and distributed systems. I’m always proud to see that 3 years later, Upfluence is a successful company and some of my code is still running at its core

Worked as developer on a complex application built to refund clients in case of bank bankruptcy. It involved complex business rules and beeing able to handle an important amount of open cases. This was my first experience as web developer, in a large team and in a large company. I gave various talks about test driven development, like this presentation as I understood how important it is on projects of this scale.

First experience as software engineer, I had two primary missions in that position. First was to build middleware and user interface application for a “second screen” set top box system, using DLNA, linux and web technologies. Second was to build a multiplatform desktop application dedicated to control Awox Striim series devices. It features a DLNA control point, and also custom features like devices zoning and lighting control over network.