Thomas Belin
- JavaScript
- Reactive Programming
- Functional Programming
- Cycle.js
- React
About Me
The thing I love the most about front-end: I get to learn new ways of doing things all the time! That's how I learned Functional Programming and, more recently with the discovery of Cyclejs, Reactive Programming. It has completely changed the way I think about UI and, I believe, made me a better developer.
I love learning but I also love teaching. That is why I often give talks in conferences and teach JavaScript to students at the University.
Infos
- 30 years old
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Berlin
Berlin
Germany
Professional Status
Employed
Unavailable
Contact
Experience
- Gave a few talks to evangelize Cycle and Reactive Programming in conferences (dotJS, Devoxx France, CycleConf)
- Answered questions asked on our Gitter and StackOverflow https://gitter.im/cyclejs/cyclejs
- Pushed code to the main repo
- Contributed to API design discussions
Volunteer Work
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- In 2013, I rewrote the resume editor from scratch, replacing jQuery with Angular.
This allowed us to iterate faster on the different evolutions of our editor and to regain traction. - In 2017, we discovered we should focus on the PDF version of the resume.
Our front-end needed some deep changes, this was the time to transition from Angular to something else.
I led this iterative migration that slowly replaced Angular with Cycle.
Full-time
Nantes
(France)
- Designed features for the platform. I contributed to every part of the creation of a feature from its UX conception to its full stack concrete implementation (PHP, JavaScript, DB migration scripts, changelog updates ...)
- Ensured the quality of our codebase through code review, peer programming and formation of new developers
- Took care of the sanity of our GIT repository
- Often tweaked our Dockerfile and installation processes
JavaScript Lecturer @ l'IUT de Nantes
IUT de Nantes
October 2016
to November 2017
- I was in charge of 2 modules at the Université de Nantes :
★ Introduction to JavaScript (12h)
★ JavaScript for the Front-End (with React) (16h)
The first module focuses only on the language and all the internal mechanisms (prototypes, closures, functions, what is `this`...) + a brief introduction to functional programming in JavaScript.
In the second module, I teach them how to use the DOM API. Once they are familiar with it, I show them how a library (React) can simplify their life.
Their final assignment is to develop an interface for an HTTP API I developed (a twitter-like hosted on now.sh ) - I love how teaching to others helps me getting better at what I do and this experience was very rich in learning.
Nantes
(France)
- Designed the automated task that builds the website (based on Jekyll). It fetches the data for our 700+ movies from the TMDB API.
- Add a caching mechanism to avoid fetching all the movies at each build.
Skills
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Git
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VIM
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Kakoune
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Arch Linux
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Docker
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Javascript
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CycleJS
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Typescript
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RxJS
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React
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Redux
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PHP (Symfony2)
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NodeJS
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Ruby On Rails
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Haskell
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PureScript
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Rust
Education
Cryptography I
Coursera
March 2016
to May 2016
MOOC on cryptography. https://www.coursera.org/learn/crypto/home/welcome
Computer Science Engineering degree
Polytech'Nantes
September 2009
to July 2012
+ TOEIC (score 935/990)
