Category: Contracted projects

2026 · Client project

7etresoi.fr — Legacy WordPress to Static Edge

A ten-year-old French wellness site had outgrown its shared hosting: slow pages, an ageing plugin stack, and no consistent design system.

I rebuilt it as a split architecture — WordPress for editing, Cloudflare Pages for visitors. The editorial experience stayed familiar; everything the public touches became static files served from the edge, with serverless functions handling the parts that need to stay dynamic.

Page loads went from over 800ms to under 50ms. The site is WCAG AA accessible, runs cookieless analytics with no third-party trackers, and keeps form data within EU jurisdiction. Content updates go live without a rebuild.

2019 — Present · Saturday Drive

Saturday Drive — Product Engineering & Platform Architecture

I joined Saturday Drive as a core engineer on Ninja Forms, a WordPress form builder with millions of active installations, and its catalogue of commercial add-ons.

Alongside feature work across PHP, JavaScript and REST APIs, I owned the delivery infrastructure for the whole product line — automated test suites and an automated release pipeline covering the core plugin and every add-on, including publication to the WordPress.org repository. Shipping stopped being an event and became routine.

Since 2025 my focus has moved to architecture on a greenfield edge-first platform: a standalone distributed system rather than a plugin. TypeScript end to end on Cloudflare Workers, serverless Postgres with a typed ORM, a modular monorepo, schema-first contracts as the single source of truth, and a CI pipeline that runs every suite across multiple runtimes before anything merges.

It’s a small team, so the two threads overlap — I still know the plugin ecosystem well and step back into it when it needs me.

2017 — 2019 · CalderaWP

Caldera Forms — Plugin Development & Add-on Ecosystem

I joined CalderaWP as a developer working on Caldera Forms, a popular open source WordPress form builder plugin, and its growing ecosystem of add-ons.

My work included building new features for the core plugin, developing and maintaining add-ons (payment gateways, CRM integrations, conditional logic), fixing bugs across the codebase, and handling support escalations that required code-level investigation.

CalderaWP was later acquired by Saturday Drive, where I continued working on form builder technology with Ninja Forms.

2016 — 2017 · LAFAB / Groupe Forum

LAFAB — Web Agency Development

I worked as a web developer at LAFAB / Groupe Forum, a website creation agency based in Saint-Raphaël, France.

The work covered a broad range of projects: building custom WordPress themes and plugins for agency clients, setting up WooCommerce stores, and developing web applications with Symfony 3. I also handled ongoing maintenance and integration of online payment solutions.

This was my first agency role — fast-paced, client-facing, and a solid foundation for the plugin-focused work that followed at CalderaWP.

2013 · Freelance

OwnCloud — Private Cloud & Collaboration

I deployed and configured OwnCloud instances on private and dedicated servers for businesses that needed cloud storage and collaboration tools without relying on third-party platforms.

Each setup was tailored to the client’s infrastructure — dedicated, shared, or virtual servers. Beyond file storage, I built out project management and collaboration features using OwnCloud’s app ecosystem. The priority was always the same: full data sovereignty, no external dependencies.

2012 · Freelance

PHPList — Self-Hosted Email Campaigns

I set up and customized PHPList installations on dedicated servers for clients who needed full control over their email marketing — no third-party services, all data kept in-house.

The work involved server-side configuration for bulk email delivery, building custom frontend templates for subscription and unsubscription flows, and integrating the system with existing client infrastructure. Everything ran on the client’s own servers — privacy and data ownership were the driving requirements.