Nicolas Dinquel
Lead Full-stack Developer
- nicolas.dinquel+cv@gmail.com
- linkedin.com/in/dinquel
- nicolas.dinquel.fr
Profile
An Epitech graduate, I have been designing and evolving web applications for over ten years, in Python, TypeScript and PHP: Django and Angular, and now NestJS and Vue.js too.
As lead developer at Yupeek, I work across all of the Menway group's products, from back-end to user interface.
I enjoy designing an API as much as polishing an interface, and I take real pleasure in modernising existing code: framework migrations, tests, paying down technical debt.
Experience
2016 — present
Lead Full-stack Developer @ Yupeek
Menway group, Metz, after internships in 2012 and 2014
I build and maintain the group's job and recruitment platforms, from the Django back-end to the Angular apps, all the way to tooling and deployment.
Products
- ReservoirJobs job board, formerly Yupeek (Django, Angular SSR)
- ReservoirJobs for apprenticeship schools: multi-campus job board connected to their management tools
- Resume database: resume search powered by Elasticsearch
- Internal REST API shared across products
- Recrut: job ad distribution (Django REST, Angular)
- WordPress plugin to search and apply for job offers
Modernisation
- AngularJS → Angular, then Angular 15 → 20 (signals, SSR)
- Django 2 → 4, jQuery → ES6, Webpack setup
- The group's internal ERP (PHP 8.3, ExtJS): unit tests and legacy code refactoring
- Front-end performance optimisation
DevOps & AI
- Multi-stage Docker images, GitLab CI
- Elasticsearch indexing, Celery background tasks
- AI-assisted development (Claude Code, AGENTS.md, skills)
Sep 2015 — Feb 2016
Front-end Developer @ Etix Everywhere
internship in Luxembourg
Front-end of a centralised technical management solution for data centres.
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Etix Everywhere is one of Europe's data centre operators. I designed and built the front-end of a centralised technical management tool there, my first project with AngularJS.
Education
2019
UX Design course @ GOBELINS Paris
72 hours
UX methodology from needs analysis to design, ergonomics and prototyping.
2011 — 2016
Information Technology Expert @ Epitech
Nancy, Paris
Five-year computer science school built around projects, with an internship every year.
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The first two years focus on the C language, including rewriting its standard library from scratch: a solid grounding in low-level development.
2014 — 2015
Year abroad @ Keimyung University
Daegu, South Korea
Fourth year of Epitech abroad and start of the final-year project.
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The final-year project is carried out with a team spread across several countries: a first experience of remote, asynchronous collaboration.
Skills
- back-end
- front-end
- data
- tools
- languages
- French — native
- English — fluent
Side projects
- gitea
- Self-hosted Git forge behind an nginx reverse proxy.
- docker
- Several containerised services, kept up to date by a home-made script.
- home-assistant
- Home automation, including monitoring a 3D printer.
- nicolas.dinquel.fr
- This site: Angular 22, statically prerendered, bilingual, served by nginx in Docker.