About Thibault
Me
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Senior engineer with a track record of building foundational systems and driving technical direction. Comfortable at architecture level and with stakeholders, but motivated by craft, solving hard problems with clean, maintainable code. Advocates for lean principles, intentional AI adoption, and human-first engineering.
What you get
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You choose to put your trust with me and I promise you:
⭐️ Each client and context is different. My work will suit your needs.
🛡️ Fast, readable, documented code.
📚 Unit tests and external documentation if you want them.
🎙️ Follow ups and regular communication in English (or French). No jargon.
My services
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Here are some of the things I can do for you:
🗺️ Solution design: I break down problems into a plan actionable by more junior developers.
👨💻 Full-stack Development: From your idea to the release.
👷♂️ Refactoring: I fix bugs, improve speed or migrate your apps to new languages.
👔 Hiring: I have done enough hiring to help you assess mindset and skillset of candidates.
Want to know more about me?
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German
Basic
Japanese
Basic
French
Native or bilingual
English
Native or bilingual
Remote only
Primarily works remotely
Experience
- TreeferaEngineering Chapter LeadENVIRONMENTALMarch 2025 - Today (1 year and 3 months)United KingdomDe facto Head of Engineering across geospatial data, satellite imagery, and forest compliance• Promoted from Founding Engineer to Chapter Lead within a year; now operating as de facto Head of Engineering across a 15-person team.• Hired half of the current engineering team; wrote job descriptions, conducted interviews, and developed a strong instinct for engineering quality.• Advocates for intentional AI adoption: using AI as a precision tool rather than a default, maintaining human judgment at the centre of engineering decisions, and pushing back when hype drives process over outcomes.
- TreeferaFounding EngineerENVIRONMENTALApril 2024 - March 2025 (11 months)United KingdomSecond Engineer; established the technical foundations the platform still runs on• Joined with most infrastructure running locally; brought the MVP to the cloud, introduced CI/CD, stabilised the Terraform setup, and added observability through Slack notifications and webhooks.• Designed and built a DAG-based geospatial processing engine enabling engineers to define satellite imagery pipelines declaratively in JSON, reducing new analysis development from one week to under 30 minutes for non-ML workflows.• Designed a geospatial server combining S3-organised datasets with dynamic connectors (Copernicus, FIRMS, earthaccess) to retrieve, clip and standardise geospatial data for any polygon, decoupling the what from the how, enabling parallelised signal acquisition where async support is otherwise limited.• Self-taught in geospatial engineering; contributed to low-level vector and raster libraries (reprojections, warping, clipping) and developed novel satellite imagery processing pipelines.• Worked directly with the legal team to translate EUDR compliance requirements into data analyses supporting client submissions.
- Entertainment PartnersLead DeveloperApril 2023 - December 2023 (8 months)United KingdomMaintenance and feature development on legacy timesheet and invoicing tooling for film production• Designed a declarative, decorator-based plugin system in Python to support flexible attribute serialisation to the frontend.
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Education
- Certification Microsoft ProfessionnelMicrosoft2011Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5, ASP.NET Application Development
- Diplôme d'Ingénieur, Spécialité InformatiquePolytech Tours2014Obtenu avec les honneurs, élève méritant.