Senior Back-End Tech Lead

TL;DR

Adrian Tombu - Freelance back end Tech Lead (Rust, Typescript) - Remote only - 4 days week

I welcome you, dear visitor, into this bare but nevertheless interesting page which is a personnal tribute to the HTML of my youth.

Here you won't find any Google Fonts or jQuery. Even less of Node.js, PHP or Jekyll. This page is the quintessence of the Internet: an HTML page as we like.

And yes, that website is a troll to all of the templates and CMS I have used in my life

Who am I?

My name is Adrian Tombu, French-Belgian of profession (with a strong penchant for Abbey brown beer), born developer during the unforgettable year of 1986: Tchernobyl catastrophe, explosion of the Challenger shuttle live in front of millions of viewers, or the passage of the magnificent Halley's Comet (one revolution every 76 years, it's celebration time!). And if you're into great wine, you should know that the 1986 vintage was absolutely exceptionnal.

Born in Belgium, I moved several times when I finished high school (everything is on my LinkedIn profile which I use as a centralised CV), before settling up in... Puygaillard-de-Quercy, in the lost countryside of Occitania, France. This is a small village of 387 living (sort of) people, located about 1h hour from the historic capital of Languedoc: Toulouse!

What can I do?

In my life of freelance tech lead in Toulouse, I mostly work with stuff related to the back end:

• Rust, with embedded databases (RocksDB, libmdbx), cryptography and distributed systems.
• Node.js with Koa, Express, Next with a delicious layer of Typescript on top of it
• I also had the opportunity to play a bit with Go (Gin, Viper, Cobra, gRPC) and started learning Rust in late 2021
• In another life, I was also working with React and React Native for the Front End and mobile parts, but I'm not interested in working with that anymore
• Aside those barbarian terms, I'm also Opquast Expert in Web Quality. The least we can say is that the internetz do needs some good practices!
• For all of the other skills that I don't master, you can go and check the Greaaat freelance network of which I am a member. It's full of top notch people and you won't regret it!

You should know too that I exclusively work on remote mission (as a reminder, I live in the countryside, far away from civilization).

Let's work together!

You can contact me directly on my LinkedIn profile to discuss your project.

Disclaimer : I would be delighted to apply my skills on open source projects organized asynchronously (agile has killed me over the years, I need a new love).

Wanna chat?

You can find me through the following links, because the phone is so deprecated. Anyway, I don't have cellular network at my work place in the countryside!

• LinkedIn
• Github
• Blog
• Mastodon

Opensource contributions

During my time off, and as we don't have anything else to do in the countryside, I develop open-source projects that no one uses but where I put all my love into:

• Amazon Alternatives: a browser extension (Chrome & Firefox) that gives you alternatives to Amazon directly on the product pages
• Orion: a static blog generator made in Go, which I use for my blog.
• A monorepo of NPM packages: a VAT number verificator, a shuffle of arrays, an Alfred workflow for Travis, un Salesforce id converter, ...
• The present website: a few HTML pages updated by hand, a favicon and a stylesheet. Certified without any trackers!

The tools I use

• VSCode, Webstorm et Goland as code editor / IDE
• Dougs for the accounting
• Qonto for the business account
• Revolut as a backup account
• Alan for healthcare
• Comet to find nice development and data freelance missions

That's all folks! You can now go back to a sane activity...

#luv