Hi, I’m Stéphane Akkaoui.

I’m a software engineer, technical consultant and entrepreneur in Paris. I’ve been building web applications with Ruby on Rails since 2006. Today, through Forever Bije, I help companies as a consultant or part-time CTO, and I design, build and host their applications.

What I do

CTO and technical consulting: technical strategy and architecture choices, roadmaps and estimates, building and leading development teams, and audits of existing code and infrastructure.
Product development: web applications and APIs, mostly in Ruby on Rails, from the first prototype to long-term maintenance.
Infrastructure: self-hosted Linux servers, Dokku, CI/CD, monitoring and backups, so that applications keep running, patched and boring.
Upgrades and migrations: bringing old applications to current versions and new hosts without losing data.

Ventures

Commodat: a non-commercial platform for lending homes and vehicles to family and friends, with a shared calendar and messaging.
Channels Me: a service to publish and manage WhatsApp channels, with an API.

Also Chalandiz, a digital retail agency for shopping centres and brands.

Activity

3,833 contributions over the last 12 months: 3,386 on Forever Bije’s GitLab and 447 on GitHub, most of them in private client projects. Updated daily.

Open source

facturx: Ruby scripts that generate Factur-X XML and embed it into PDF invoices.
chaussettes: a minimal macOS terminal app to manage SSH SOCKS proxy tunnels.
ziltoid: a cron-based monitoring system.
levenshtein_comparator: a Ruby string comparator based on the Damerau–Levenshtein distance.
yaps (2009): Prototype and Scriptaculous ported to Facebook’s FBML applications.
Yapopup (2009): popups for Facebook FBML applications, built on yaps.

Before

I started out on financial software for an investment bank at Informatique CDC, then on Ruby on Rails products at Pierlis and Dimelo. In 2008 I co-founded Sociabliz, a social marketing agency that built Facebook applications for brands. After it was acquired by Acticall (now Foundever), I was CTO and COO of the subsidiary TSC, and R&D manager. An entrepreneur at heart, I have also been part of Nanotrust, Vymlife, GoodTerms, Moonshot Analytics and Envouthé. I studied software engineering at INSIA.