Firas, François Abed El Nabi
Open to Tech Lead & senior engineering roles
I model business domains the way I used to model materials — decompose the messy thing until the structure shows, then build something that survives contact with reality.
PhD in computational material science, retrained as a Java developer, 10 years building software and most of that in the enterprise. Today I lead a team of five and own the architecture rather than only implementing it.
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Selected work
- 001Independent A Multi-Tenant Practice SaaS for Solo Practitioners and Medical Teams
A practice-management SaaS I build, deploy and run myself on a VPS. Every customer is a tenant, and one organisational model has to fit both a one-person practice and a medical group — without making the small customer pay for the large one's structure.
- 002Adobis A Hexagonal Reference Architecture for New Services
Moved new services off an inherited Java monolith onto DDD and Hexagonal boundaries — writing the reference implementation and driving adoption through pairing sessions.
- 003Independent A Component Library as an Angular Workspace
An independently built Material-style UI kit — 35 components, 265 stories — where each component is its own Angular library and every style resolves through a three-tier token system rather than a hardcoded value.
- 004Adobis Nx Micro-Frontend Architecture
Restructured the front end into an Nx monorepo of five applications on Ports and Adapters, so micro-frontends build and release independently.
- 005Independent A Read-Only Reader for Notes and Code
A read-only reader for a notes vault or a code repository — wikilinks, backlinks, search, and a faithful reimplementation of git's layered ignore semantics, pruning behaviour included.
- 006Independent A Job Execution Platform on Spark and Kafka
Jobs submitted through a BFF, queued on Kafka, executed by a long-running Spark application and streamed back over SSE under one trace id — with the domain-specific surface narrowed to four extension points.
- 007Capgemini Schneider Electric — Wiser Energy
Energy and photovoltaic monitoring across EMEA, plus BLE control of lights and shutters from a web app on Android and iOS — where a device is only ever probably in a state.
- 008VISEO SPARK — Spatial Augmented Reality
An EU research project projecting 3D designs onto printed models in real time, with ActiveMQ holding a Java web stack and a C# projection loop apart.
Career
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Independent Engineering & Self-Hosting
Personal projects — Remote
Building and self-hosting my own systems — a healthcare scheduling platform, a Spark/Kafka job execution engine, a knowledge-vault reader, and two different answers to multi-tenancy — alongside AI-assisted developer tooling. Where the architectural decisions are mine end to end, and the reasoning is written down next to the code.
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Adobis Group
Tech Lead & Full-Stack Developer — Grenoble, France
Leading a team of 5 on DataChain®, a European sovereign data platform. Four years moving new services off an inherited Java monolith onto DDD and Hexagonal boundaries, and building the tooling the platform's business users work in daily — a visual composer for automation workflows and an IDE-style editor for the formulas Spark evaluates over their data. In production at Boehringer, the State of Geneva and Ayming.
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Capgemini-Sogeti High Tech
Full-Stack Consultant — Grenoble, France
Consulting for Schneider Electric (Wiser Energy — IoT, solar monitoring, home automation) and EATON (IPM2 — data centre UPS monitoring).
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VISEO Technologies
Full-Stack Consultant — Grenoble, France
Full-stack developer on SPARK with Politecnico di Milano — an EU research project on Spatial Augmented Reality with real-time 3D projection.
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Education
MSc, Particle Physics — Université Grenoble Alpes, 2009–2012
PhD, Computational Material Science — Université de Poitiers / Institut PPRIME, 2012–2016 · read the thesis (PDF, 17.5 MB)
Java Software Developer Bootcamp — M2I, 2016–2017
Skills
Languages
French NativeEnglish FluentArabic NativeGerman Intermediate