Four ninjas,
passionate and
conscientious,
with good
coffee
Agnès Crépet
Agnès strives to make tech more inclusive, fair, and sustainable, rather than presenting it as the solution to everything.
She has worked primarily for Fairphone since 2018 as Head of Software Engineering. Fairphone is a European company that designs and manufactures modular and sustainable smartphones, with a focus on repairability, longevity, and more ethical sourcing and manufacturing practices.
She is also a member of the boards of Mouton Numérique, a technocritical collective on the challenges technology poses to our societies, and of Commown, the first sustainable electronics rental cooperative that has chosen the functionality economy as opposed to the linear sales model.
She also co-founded MiXiT, an annual tech event organized in France since 2011, which brings together nearly 1,000 participants and works for more diversity and ethics in tech.In the past, she co-directed Duchess France, an association that makes women in IT more visible.
Cédric Exbrayat
Cédric is above all a passionate person, who started coding shortly after reading. After starting his career as a Java backend developer, he fell in love with the world of JavaScript, its frameworks, and its cohort of projects, both hyped and ephemeral.
He is now a contributor to several open-source projects. He is notably part of the teams building the Angular and Vue frameworks, and is one of the world's top contributors in these ecosystems. By the way, he has written an ebook and an online training course on each.
He also loves teaching these technologies, and regularly gives training courses remotely or on-site.
Cyril Lacôte
After 10 years of working in IT services companies, as a Java developer and trainer, Cyril believed that software should be the pride of the agency and its core business.
But he was made to understand that technology was dirty and degrading, and that he needed to move towards a real career, that is, working with Excel and PowerPoint.
A second unfortunate experience as a Software Engineer at Google in London led him to a mission closer to pre-sales than technical. Unsurprisingly, this job wasn't his dream.
So much for free food and unlimited training, he quit immediately. But he realized the value placed on experienced developers outside of France.
In a project, he's the type to invest himself body and soul. He appreciates nothing more than moments of exchange and sharing skills; learning and helping others learn.
Recently, his founding favorites were dependency injection (Spring/Guice/CDI), Guava, and Fest-Assert.
Outside of development, he furtively dabbled in acting, directing, and writing. Then he finally accepted that he was a much better spectator than a writer. Some would call it maturity, others would say he'd simply become an old fart.
He now binges on movies, TV series, and reading. He's adopted Churchill's lifestyle: « no sport ».
He likes chickens (preferably bantams), circumflex accents, fire, and melon. He dislikes being predictable, Brussels sprouts, and people who don't like a lot of things.
Jean-Baptiste Nizet
Jean-Baptiste is usually referred to as JB. He doesn't drink coffee which makes it a special developer.
JB likes simple but well-executed solutions, seeing the automated tests progress bar reach completion, documenting his code.
He doesn't like Maven, nor meetings that last too long.
But life isn't all about work. JB also enjoys scuba-diving, which he practices less these days, and hiking, which he practices assiduously.