Nicolas Stévenart

Senior Freelance Full-stack Web Developer

I’ve been working as a web developer for 15+ years. I care about a job well done while being used to respect strict schedules and budgets. I usually get along pretty well with others and I can manage a small team to get the job done with as little drama as possible.

Experience

  • Freelance Web Developer @MicroMegas 2016 — today

    From end of 2016 until now, I’m working as a full-time freelancer. This allowed me to work with agencies on complex and interesting projects, for big brands and demanding clients. I've been working on solo projects as well as on missions reinforcing existing teams.

  • Senior Lead Developer @Noosphere Brand Strategy 2024 (4 months)

    Noosphere is one of the leading communication agencies in Luxembourg. I was on staff to reorganize and automatize hosting services for its 100+ clients.
    💪 Undocumented existing architecture to start from

    Technical stack

    LAMP sysadmin Angular Bash CSS Git Github HTML JavaScript jQuery Linux PHP PicoPHP SASS/SCSS Slim

  • Senior Web Developer @Satelia 2023 (6 months)

    Satelia is a french medtech scale-up, specialized in the remote monitoring of patients with chronic diseases. I joined an existing team to maintain a Symfony monolith and migrate it to a micro-services architecture in Go. Despite the interesting project and a good fit with the team, I've chosen to leave Bordeaux and come back to Luxembourg for personal reasons.
    💪 Strict security and regulatory imperatives

    Technical stack

    GitLab Vue.js Symfony Docker GitLab CI/CD Cypress PHPUnit CSS Git HTML JavaScript jQuery Linux PHP SASS/SCSS

  • CTO of an online shop @TheNailistaShop 2013 — 2017

    The shop started small but in just a few years became one of the leaders in its field in Europe. I remained the CTO until the closure of the site in 2017. The project was very interesting because it grew very fast and the website (code, design and features) had to evolve as quickly. Today the shop does not exist anymore but this project taught me a lot about e-commerce.
    💪 Solo-dev on the project.
    💬 Continuous synchronization with SEO and marketing needs.

    Technical stack

    GitLab SVN Laravel LAMP sysadmin Bash CSS Git HTML JavaScript Linux PHP SASS/SCSS

  • Lead Developer/Project Manager in a communication agency @z6creation (sold in 2017) 2009 — 2016

    Before freelancing I was working at z6creation, a web agency that has been sold since. My role was to lead the development team while still being the lead
    developer on challenging projects. This position taught me how to
    manage several projects at once and meet very short deadlines.
    💪 Proprietary CMS development
    💬 Project management
    👥 Team management (4 people)

    Technical stack

    SVN LAMP sysadmin Bash CSS HTML JavaScript jQuery Linux PHP SASS/SCSS

  • Web Developer in a music startup @Jamendo 2008 — 2009

    I joined the development team of the music streaming platform, where I was in charge of the integration with social networks (Fabebook, Twitter). At Jamendo, I learned how to optimize a site for it to scale well. I was working on the public part of the site, which had several millions monthly visitors. With a limited server infrastructure, writing efficient code was essential.
    💪 Millions of visitors monthly.

    Technical stack

    SVN Phalcon Python CSS HTML JavaScript jQuery Linux PHP

  • Junior Web Developer @BGL BNP Paribas 2006

    For my first experience as a junior web developer, I was part of the team responsible for the development of the Web Banking platform.

    Technical stack

    Java Struts Tomcat CSS HTML

Education

  • First year of master in computer science @University of Liège (Belgium) 2005 — 2006

  • Bachelor in computer science (3 years) @Haute École Robert Schuman (Belgium) 2002 — 2005

Technical stack

Over my career I have had the opportunity to work with many different languages and tools. Learning a new language and/or framework doesn't bother me: I have a good knowledge in OOP and I can learn relatively quickly.

Here a quick overview of the tech I've been in contact, ranked by my expertise level :

🌟 Expertise
LAMP sysadmin Bash PHP PicoPHP HTML CSS SASS/SCSS Cypress Linux
✅ Knowledge
Github GitLab Git SVN CVS Laravel Symfony Slim JavaScript GitLab CI/CD PHPUnit
👁️ Basic knowledge
Angular Vue.js Phalcon jQuery Python Java Docker Struts Tomcat

Open-source projects

Despite my busy professional life, I try to save some time for open source development:

PicoPHP
I am currently lead dev on this open source PHP CMS that I also use on many projects. This CMS is also used by a dozen of agencies, a few of them in Luxembourg.
picophp.micromegas.me
SoapMailer
In 2017, I've created this free emailing sending service (funded by donations) for non-advertising purposes. It uses the SOAP protocol for the communication between clients and the server. Even I've have not been adding features since it's creation, it is still used today.
mailer.stevenart.eu

Hobbies and Interests

I was born in 1983 in Belgium and I have lived in France for several years. I recently came back where I started my career: Luxembourg, where I'm currently living.

I'm married and have an awesome French bulldog named Lino.

I'm a fan of movies, video games and graphic novels. I love specialty coffee and renovating houses. I'm also one of those dangerous vegans you sometimes hear about on TV.