Nadir Kadem

I am a senior web developer and web addict, passionate about by web technologies. I enjoy my work, teamworking on cool projects and have plenty ideas. I'm currently interessed in React and functional programming. I'm always motivated.

Experience

Datadog - Senior Front End Engineer - 2016-present

• Worked on the creation of the APM (Application Performance Monitoring) tool and helped make it through GA.
• Worked on trace search (live APM traces) and helped make it through GA. The tool is an interface meant to slice and dice throught billions of traces.
• As part of the frontend guild, enforced good pratices and helped to create a design system.

Dailymotion - Lead Front End Engineer - 2006-2016

• Management/recruitment/training of a team of 13 developers

• Worked on the next dailymotion internal SDK (ES6) + added a simple relay implementation

• Introduced React in Dailymotion (created an universal POC), and pushed the company to switch

• Worked on the general release workflow and helped build our release system (we ship code to production several times a day)Dailymotion release dashboard

• Added the GateKeeper concept (live feature flag management interface) to Dailymotion. The GateKeeper is called hundreds of millions of times per day.

  

• Introduced the Dailymotion Toolkit to drastically improve speed of development and UX coherence all over the site

• Switched the site to TWIG (doubling page speed)

• New flash player (new architecture + switch to actionscript 3) with another developer

• HTML5 version of the site (html5 video player)

  

• HTML5 interface for Google TV/Chrome Webs Store and future set top boxes : Dailymotion Stream

  

Observimmo - Developer - 2003-2006

• Switch the site from php4 to php5 (object oriented)
• Developed new functionalities on the site, and real estate sites leechers
• Developed a ruby client to insert new real estate classified ads

Flipside (Vivendi Universal) - Developer - 2000-2003

• Developed the site back office in ASP
• Worked in a team of 10 developers on a Java multiplayer game (wordox) in Budapest, Hungary
• Developed/ported some casual games on mobile phone (Java MIDP)

Skills

Programming skills

• Javascript
• Typescript
• Python
• Ruby
• Java

Frameworks/libs

• Javascript: React, Redux, mobX, Angular
• CSS: SCSS, less, emotion, styled components, glamorous
• Animation: konva, react-motion, react-spring

Work environment

• System: Mac OSX, Linux
• Version control: git

Languages

• French: fluent
• English: fluent
• German: not so fluent
• Japanese: learning in progress

Hobbies

• Building simple things, just for fun, here are a few examples:

  • Stickaz, inventor and co-founder

    

  • React Image Responsive component

    

  • My github open source projects

  • Books (Asimov, Pratchett, Steinbeck, Zelazny, Yourcenar, Camus)

  • Music (i try to play guitar)