The Journey — Baptiste Daujat's career as a map

Map of Middle-earth, with Frodo's route drawn from the Shire to Mordor

Journey stage

Hobbiton
BTS SIO, SLAM option (two-year higher technical diploma)
Next stage
Lycée Louis Pergaud · Besançon, France
2019 – 2021
Software solutions and business applications.
Rivendell
Previous stage
Professional bachelor's degree DAWIN — web development
Next stage
IUT de Bordeaux · Bordeaux, France
2021 – 2022
Web application development and digital innovation, as an apprenticeship within the Prochilab group.
Lothlórien
Previous stage
Web developer — apprenticeship
Next stage
Prochilab · Bordeaux, France
Sep 2021 – Sep 2022
- Built Symfony features on the e-commerce solution to improve the user experience.
- Optimised SQL queries to improve site performance.
- Wrote scripts and utilities improving the link between the e-commerce site and the ERP.
Mount Doom
Previous stage
Back-end web developer
Prochilab · Bordeaux and Lyon, France
Sep 2022 – present
- Worked across the group's two e-commerce platforms (Symfony 5 and 7), from the back-end to the front-end, to evolve customer journeys and business processes.
- Gathered the business needs, proposed the solutions and implemented them.
- Migrated the legacy search engine to Meilisearch: a clear gain in result relevance and in speed, from 3 seconds down to 300 milliseconds.
- Optimised SQL queries and introduced batch processing to handle substantial data volumes.
- Designed and built C# / .NET desktop applications on Windows Server to automate data exchange between the e-commerce platform and the ERP.
- Contributed to building the group's second e-commerce site: front-end, REST API exchanges (product catalogue, stock levels and prices) and acceptance testing.
- Wrote Dockerfiles and moved some projects to Docker, to simplify running them locally.

The detail of each stage, on the Career page