Valentin Hervieu

Welcome to my website!

I'm Valentin Hervieu from France and I'm 27 years old.

I work as a senior front-end engineer for Ricardo.ch in Sophia-Antipolis, France (Here's my résumé). I enjoy making software and you can check my GitHub profile if you want to see my projects.

I'm also available for freelancing and if you want to contact me, feel free to send me an email at valentin@hervi.eu.

Work experience

2011

March 2011 – June 2011

Frontware Co. Ltd.

Bangkok, Thailand

Software Development – Internship

Developed applications for Android mobile devices using Java and CSS3/jQuery. Also implemented new features and maintained existing websites using PHP and Javascript.

2012

August 2012 – February 2013

Siemens Corporate Research

Princeton, NJ, USA

Software Development – Internship

Developed mobile applications (natives and web) using Android and CSS3/jQuery.
Back-end implementation using .NET/C++.

2013

July 2013 – December 2013

USEC

Compiègne, France

Full-stack engineer

Created an Android app for tablets allowing disabled people to assess their workday. Developed an administration application using Symfony2 with a dual purpose: to present the results of each user in a structured layout and to customize the Android app for each user.

2014

February 2014 – July 2014

Amadeus

Sophia-Antipolis, France

Software Development - Internship

Within the Reservations service of Amadeus, I developed a product named Community Trip Organizer. It is a web application providing a platform for groups in order to organize trips in a collaborative way.

August 2014 – June 2017

Milanamos

Sophia-Antipolis, France

Full-stack engineer

In charge of the front-end part of a SAAS application, powered by AngularJS and Python. Milanamos provides traffic and revenue forecasting for the air transport industry (airlines and airports).

2017 ... 2019

July 2017 – Present

Ricardo.ch

Sophia-Antipolis, France

Senior Front-end Engineer

We are rebuilding an 18 y.o. ecommerce website using cool stuffs: React, SSR, Webpack, Node.js, MaterialUI...
Ensuring that everything runs smoothly using Prometheus, Grafana and Google Analytics.
Powered by our micro-services APIs.

Projects

react-easy-crop

A React component to crop images with easy interactions. I've started to implement this component at work for the new listing form of Ricardo.ch.
Then, I thought it was a cool project and I decided to continue working on it on my personal time and make it open-source in agreement with my employer.

AngularJS Slider

This is the most used slider directive for AngularJS 1.X with more than 1 million downloads on NPM.
I did not start this project, but I am the main contributor since July 2015. Since then I have added many features, full test coverage, a documentation website and handle all issues and pull requests.

Tunezap.com

This is a web app I built as a student to create songs playlists. The main features are:

Playback using Youtube APIs
Lyrics display
Similar songs radio
Playlist sharing