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Rémi Garcia

Senior full-stack developer·18 years of experience

“I design, build and run web products end to end: from the data model to production, from architecture to AI features.”

Aix-en-Provence, France·Fully remote·Freelance (open to a permanent role in a small company)
remi@pragm.agency·+33 6 51 97 21 09·linkedin.com/in/remigarcia·github.com/remigarcia·gitlab.com/remigarcia

What I'm looking for

Products that genuinely serve the people who use them, in human-scale companies, carried end to end and close to business needs.

About

18 years of full-stack development (PHP/Symfony, TypeScript/React), from three-person teams to very high-traffic platforms. For the past year, AI has been at the core of my work.

Skills

Back-end
PHP 8 / Symfony 8 · API Platform · Node.js · PostgreSQL · MySQL / MariaDB · RabbitMQ / Symfony Messenger · Elasticsearch / Typesense · Redis
Front-end
React · TypeScript · React Native · Next.js
AI / LLM
Anthropic API (Claude) · RAG architectures (embeddings, vector search) · multi-agent orchestration · AI-assisted development (Claude Code) · self-hosting open-weight models
Infra / DevOps
Docker · CI/CD · AWS · Caddy · Linux administration · self-hosting · monitoring
Quality & method
unit / integration / e2e testing · static analysis · continuous integration · code review
Practices
software architecture (DDD, hexagonal) · data modeling · scoping & gathering business requirements · technical audits · application security · explaining tech to non-technical audiences

Experience

Lead full-stack developer · Purjus Communication

Jan 2026 – present

Freelance · Vauvenargues, France · web agency

Technical lead for the Retail Renault Group (RRG) account, from design to deployment.

Full-stack developer · See Tickets (Digitick)

May 2020 – Dec 2025

Freelance · fully remote · online ticketing

Very large-scale ticketing platform (Tour Eiffel, RMN, Olympique de Marseille, Château de Versailles, Musée d'Orsay…), working fully autonomously within a distributed team.

Lead full-stack developer · Purjus Communication

Sept 2017 – May 2020

Permanent contract · Vauvenargues, France · web agency

Technical lead and lead developer on projects for Retail Renault Group (retail-renault-group.fr, jobs.renaultretailgroup.com), Fleury Michon, datagora.fr (web and iOS/Android mobile app), and more. Flagship build: quartierdesjantes.com, developed from scratch with one front-end integrator (cross-source data imports, Elasticsearch search engine, strong business constraints).

PHP/Symfony developer · Himalaya 8868

2016 – 2017

Fixed-term contract · remote

Built and shipped management and administrative-assistance products for nonprofits: software architecture, development, CI, deployment and system administration.

Web developer · Allopneus

2015 – 2016

Permanent contract · France's leading online tire retailer

High-traffic e-commerce. Developed and improved the wheels section; designed an internal data hub, a single source of truth connecting all departments through APIs.

Full-stack developer · Digitick

2012 – 2015

Permanent contract · Marseille, France

Ticketing software: specifications and back-office modules, production incident management for major clients.

Developer · Habitat Trade / Easy-Devis

2008 – 2012

Permanent contract · first position

Four years of full-stack development in a small company.

Personal projects

awarefan · awarefan.com: music news aggregator for artist fans (crawling, NLP/AI, notifications). Designed and built solo, end to end: SvelteKit front end, Symfony API with DDD / hexagonal architecture, self-hosted open-weight LLM in production (vLLM, GPU).
Capylot · automation app connecting in-game events (race win, death in an FPS…) to real-world actions: turning on a smart bulb, displaying a GIF on a Twitch stream, etc. Electron front end, C#/.NET backend, Symfony API.
Sonaryx · identifies the song playing through the microphone (AudD recognition, Shazam-style) and scrobbles it to Last.fm. React/TypeScript, in-browser audio capture, Last.fm OAuth.

Education

BTS Informatique de Gestion (French two-year degree in software development), 2008.

Continuous self-training since: LLM architectures, the Symfony ecosystem, DevOps.

Languages

French (native) · English: fluent technical English (daily working language).