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Alexandre Berthon

Product Manager turned Rails developer

Education

MSc in Management

ESSEC Business School
2015 - 2018

MSc in Engineering

Arts et Métiers Engineering School
2012 - 2015

Languages

  • French (Native)
  • English (Fluent)
  • Italian (Proficient)

Hobbies

  • Tennis, Padel, Basketball
  • Sci-fi 🚀🪐

Career Profile

Ruby on Rails developer based in Paris, France. I used to be a Product Manager on B2C and B2B apps (5 years), allowing me to bring product vision & strategy in my dev work.

Experiences

Founder/Developer

Since June 2023
TrainStory
Paris, FR

Creator of TrainStory, a trip planner for rail-based journeys through Europe. Stack:

  • Ruby on Rails
  • PostgreSQL
  • Redis
  • Hotwire: Turbo/Stimulus

Fullstack developer bootcamp

April 2023 - June 2023
Le Wagon
Paris, FR

9-week intensive coding bootcamp learning HTML, CSS, Bootstrap, JavaScript ES6, SQL, git, GitHub, Heroku and Ruby on Rails. Designed, implemented and shipped to production a clone of AirBnB and a Rails prototype of Zenloop.

Chief Product Officer

May 2018 - February 2023
Coorganiz/Calizy (B2C app/SAAS provider)
London, UK & Paris, FR

Working with a team scattered across Europe on 2 different projects:

  • Coorganiz (B2C app, iOS/Android/web), an app that helps the organization of small communities
  • Calizy (B2B app, iOS/Android/web), a SAAS product that facilitates appointment booking for companies

Activities:

  • discussing: collect and challenge users/clients wants/needs
  • reframing: find the generic feature(s) hidden behind the specific, complex needs
  • planning: maintain the product roadmap, prioritize future developments
  • designing: specifications writing, with UI conception
  • managing: support the development teams during their coding sprints
  • QA: test the new features

Skills & Proficiency

Ruby on Rails

Hotwire (Turbo, Stimulus)

React, Next.js

HTML, CSS

R

Python

Sketch, Photoshop