Who am I?

Cédric Delalande

Senior Ruby Developer with 15+ years experience building scalable web applications. Expert in team leadership, system architecture, and cloud migrations.

Creative, flexible and eclectic.

I believe clean, tested code is key to maintainability and performance. I believe in trust and ownership.

Ruby on Rails
Kubernetes
Team Leadership
AWS/GCP
CI/CD
Rust

Experience

Full Stack Developer

Happydemics - Full Remote

Full stack development for market research platform. Ruby on Rails backend development. React/TypeScript frontend development. Python development. AI prompt engineering and integration.

Senior Backend Developer

Perfect Memory - Full Remote

Ruby development for enterprise applications. Backend system optimization and maintenance. RDF Knowledge Graphs implementation. Zed IDE language extension development in Rust.

Open-source maintainer

Creator of the barley gem, a fast Ruby model serializer. Maintainer of the rails-i18n gem.

Lead Backend Developer

StockPro - Full Remote

Backend squad management (5 developers). Junior mentoring. Architectural decisions. Test suite upgrade (20 → 85% coverage). Technological debt management. Performance improvements. Heroku to AWS migration. Third-party API integration. Sorbet integration.

Full Stack Developer

Domalys

Ruby on Rails and Go development. Test suite creation (0 → 60% coverage). Heroku to Kubernetes (GKE) migration for international launch. Application and IoT monitoring. Process, data flow and technological standardisation. Cloud architecture, VPC and security. CI/CD.

Freelance Full Stack Developer

MoskitoHero - Self-employed

Ruby on Rails & PHP application development. Web and press graphic design. Customer care.

Education

Google Cloud Professional Cloud Security Engineer

Google Cloud

Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)

Cloud Native Computing Foundation

English Language and Civilisation Master

Université de Poitiers

Spoken Languages

French - native
English - fluent

Key Achievements

  • 15+ years Ruby expertise
  • Led team of 5 developers
  • Open source contributor
  • Multi-language developer

Interests

System architecture, performance optimization, language design, team mentoring