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David Basset

Forward Deployed Engineer | Senior | Node.js

€650/day
Nantes, FR
8-15 years

Average response time: 1 hour

About David

The one you truly need.

I help startups, SMBs, and product teams turn ambitious ideas into production-ready AI products, intelligent automations, and scalable software that deliver business value in weeks, not months.

I specialize in fast-paced AI prototyping and building end-to-end MVPs from scratch, bridging the gap between business challenges and production grade technology.

I work across the entire product lifecycle:

🌟 AI agents, Generative AI applications, and intelligent workflows

🌟 End-to-end SaaS products and web applications

🌟 Backend systems, APIs, and enterprise integrations

🌟 Legacy application modernization

🌟 Technical architecture and product strategy

I also help engineering teams accelerate software delivery by adopting AI-powered development workflows, including Spec-Driven Development (SDD), AI coding assistants, automated testing and documentation, specialized AI agents, and MCP server integrations.

• Forward Deployed Engineering (FDE)

• AI Agents & Multi-Agent Systems

• Generative AI & LLM Orchestration

• Spec Driven Development

• API Design & Integration

• Workflow Automation

• SaaS Product Development

• Cloud Architecture

• Technical Leadership

I spent more than a year at Shopopop building strategic features for their crowdsourced delivery platform, including biometric identity verification, delivery batching, and return workflows.

• Designed and built an end-to-end budgeting simulator covering the full range of Tibco's service offerings.

• Modernized an authentication platform using Keycloak, MFA/2FA, and MCP server integration.

• Developed customer journeys and e-commerce funnels for OVHcloud.

I can join projects independently or strengthen an existing engineering team.

If you're looking for someone who can translate business needs into AI-powered products, rapidly build MVPs, integrate with your existing infrastructure, and ship production-ready solutions, let's connect.
  • French

    Native or bilingual

  • English

    Fluent

Can work on-site
Nantes (up to 50km)

Experience

  • Shopopop
    Senior fullstack engineer | Forward Deployed Engineer
    LOGISTICS AND SUPPLY CHAIN
    July 2025 - Today (1 year and 1 month)
    Nantes, France
    Shopopop is a leading French collaborative delivery platform that connects retailers, customers, and independent drivers to enable last-mile deliveries through existing journeys.

    As part of the Mobile team, working alongside two backend engineers and four iOS/Android developers, I am responsible for the design, development, and evolution of the backend services powering the mobile application.

    The platform relies on a distributed microservices architecture covering:

    • Payments (Stripe)

    • Identity Verification & Compliance (Onfido)

    • Customer Communication & Marketing (Braze, Segment)

    • Delivery Operations (core business domain)

    • Mobile application services and workflows



    Key Responsibilities

    • Designing and architecting new product features and backend services

    • Developing and maintaining mission-critical microservices

    • Managing production environments and ensuring service reliability

    • Collaborating closely with product, mobile, and business teams



    Selected Achievements

    🚀 Led the migration of the payment infrastructure from MangoPay to Stripe, modernizing payment operations and improving maintainability.

    🚀 Re-architected the authentication system using Keycloak, including the implementation of Two-Factor Authentication (2FA) and enhanced security workflows.

    🚀 Implemented advanced identity re-verification processes using biometric verification and liveness detection technologies.

    🚀 Designed and delivered a new operational workflow enabling drivers to return undelivered orders directly to partner stores when recipients are unavailable.

    🚀 Developed and maintained backend services supporting key mobile application features used daily by thousands of users.

    🚀 Built an internal MCP (Model Context Protocol) server that enables non-technical teams and AI agents to access and interact with internal APIs more efficiently, improving knowledge accessibility and reducing dependency on engineering teams.
    Node.js PostgreSQL Backend Service Development
  • Indépendant
    Forward Deployed Engineer | Senior Fullstack Engineer
    SOFTWARE PUBLISHING
    July 2024 - Today (2 years and 1 month)
    France
    For over 6 years, I've been helping startups, scale-ups, and enterprise product teams design, build, and ship ambitious digital products under tight deadlines.

    Today, my focus is on **Forward Deployed Engineering**: partnering directly with business and product teams to rapidly transform ideas into production-ready AI applications, intelligent automations, and scalable software.

    I combine product thinking with hands-on engineering, delivering everything from rapid prototypes and MVPs to production systems that integrate seamlessly into existing infrastructures.

    My expertise includes:

    • AI agents, Generative AI applications, and LLM orchestration

    • Backend development with Python and Node.js

    • API design and enterprise integrations

    • Workflow and business process automation

    • Modern web applications with React and Vue.js

    • Technical architecture, system modernization, and cloud-native solutions

    ### Recent projects



    •Shopopop— Developed strategic backend services and product features, including biometric identity verification, delivery batching, and returns management.

    •Payment Platform Migration— Led the migration from Mangopay to Stripe with zero business disruption.

    •TIBCO— Designed and built a complex end-to-end budgeting and simulation platform.

    •Xrator— Contributed to the development of a cybersecurity platform and its backend architecture.

    •OVHcloud— Built customer journeys and e-commerce checkout experiences.
    Vue.js React.js TailwindCSS NestJs SQL
  • TIBCO
    Senior Fullstack Engineer
    LOGISTICS AND SUPPLY CHAIN
    July 2024 - July 2025 (1 year)
    Saint-Aignan-Grandlieu, France
    As part of a strategic project for BPCE, in collaboration with TIBCO, we transformed a complex Excel-based budgeting simulator into a modern web application.
    The original solution consisted of more than 20 interconnected spreadsheets containing critical business rules used to calculate service costs. The tool had become difficult to maintain, evolve, and scale.
    My Role
    Working within a team of two developers, I contributed throughout the entire project lifecycle, from business analysis to implementation and delivery.
    Key Responsibilities
    • Reverse-engineered complex business rules from the existing Excel solution.
    • Modeled and implemented configurable calculation engines and business workflows.
    • Developed the web application frontend using Vue.js.
    • Designed a scalable and maintainable frontend architecture.
    Technical Achievements
    🚀 Migrated the application from Vue 2 to Vue 3 (Composition API).
    🚀 Migrated the build system from Webpack to Vite.
    🚀 Introduced TypeScript and Pinia to improve maintainability and developer experience.
    🚀 Implemented highly configurable business rules capable of handling complex budgeting scenarios.
    Outcomes
    🚀 Transformed a spreadsheet-based process into a scalable web application.
    🚀 Improved maintainability, performance, and user experience.
    🚀 Enabled end users to estimate and manage budgets independently.
    Tech Stack: Vue.js, TypeScript, JavaScript, Node.js, Pinia, Vite, Webpack
    SQL Vue.js React.js TailwindCSS NestJs

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Education

  • Autodidacte
    Autodidacte
    2019
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