Yoan Blanc — Freelance front-end engineer

Fahys 15
2000 Neuchâtel
Switzerland


email:
skype: yoan.blanc
phone: +41 32 710 13 18

About

I’m a 25 years old web developer, passionate by the web since I first touched it when Netscape was still Netscape and Google just a born baby.

Eager to learn and curious, I have my playground where I try to explore and follow the wave, ideas and concepts.

Employments

doSimple — Freelancer

December 2009 to Present, Neuchâtel, Switzerland

Hire me!

Eboutic.ch — Developer

June 2009 to November 2009, Lausanne, Switzerland

Contacts import from various providers, migration to Rails 2.3 (from 1.2), applied the new layout using HTML 5, migration from Trac + Subversion to a Kanban board + Mercurial,… and everything that had to be done.

Opera Software ASA — Client side JavaScript Developer

October 2008 to March 2009, Oslo, Norway

Widget-related pure JavaScript development in the Web Applications team. I introduced some agile practices like TDD.

Crealogix AG — Web Developer (contractor)

July 2008 to September 2008, Zürich, Switzerland

Two differents projects: PHP-based (Jelix) marketing website (a viral tell-a-friend), reusable REST-JSON, JSON-RPC architecture; WAI-WCAG AA+ valid banking website enhancement (with ARIA inside).

Yahoo! Europe — Front end engineer

April 2007 to March 2008, Paris, France

Web Developer on the Sports portal, using an in-house Perlish CMS.

Électron Libre — Web Application Developer

August 2006 to March 2007, Lausanne, Switzerland

Web application developer and consultant for in-house and external projects.

doSimple — coFounder

2005 to 2007, La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland

doSimple was a simple CMS (doContent) sold to local business, clubs, restaurant, and of course some ad hoc web development and technical articles.

Education

HE-ARC

2002 to 2006, Le Locle, Switzerland

Bachelor in Computer Science, option Software engineering. Worked on projects involving: wxPython/VTK, GTK# and Swing/Jena.

CIFOM-ET

1998 to 2002, Le Locle, Switzerland

CFC of Médiamaticien a computer-related formation with multimedia skills.

Miscellaneous

Languages

  • French, mother tongue;
  • English, fluent;
  • German, average, needs some practice.

Computer related

  • Front end: JavaScript, HTML, CSS, ARIA;
  • User experience: Accessibility, Microformats, Ajax/Comet;
  • Back end: XSLT, CouchDB, MySQL, SQLite, Semantic web;
  • Programming languages: JavaScript, Python, PHP, Ruby, Perl and bits of Erlang.

Interests

  • Ski, Roller blading;
  • Music;
  • Photography
  • and Cooking.