About Rémi
👋 Hi, my name is Remi Mercier (ray · me · mercy · 'ey
).
Without further ado, here are a few things you might want to know about me.
I…
- am a former stained glass maker specialized in conservation and restoration,
- drew infographics for grassroot organizations for two years,
- spearheaded inbound marketing for an open data startup for four years,
- developed harry.team and Strike it after attending the Wagon Ruby on Rails bootcamp,
- teached Ruby, Rails and much much more @Le Wagon Paris,
- live in Paris, tweet my coding sprees and headaches on Twitter,
- build wooden furniture on my balcony.
That’s it for now. Want to know more? Here’s what I’m doing right now and some kind of resume down there 👇.
What have I done these past few years?
Work things:
👉 Fullstack developer: Hosman, 2019-2020 I designed, coded, and shiped to production https://hosman.co, an app to streamline real estate transactions.
Some cool features:
- Replicate properties’ advert across ~40 real estate portals with one click.
- MVP-ish CRM to gather potential buyers’ details, etc…
Those save the sales team more than 5,000 hours per annum in terms of workload (as of 2020).
👉 Teacher: Le Wagon Paris, 2018 Helping out students coding their way through the first four weeks of the coding bootcamp:
- Ruby and programming basics
- OOP and MVC design pattern
- Database design and SQL
- Projects
Remi is a great Teaching Assistant! He is kind, patient, pedagogue and dedicated.Cécile - batch 200
Rémi is really nice. He'll not only helping code through your task, he'll explain the notions to you in your own way. One of my favourite Teaching Assistant.Grégoire - batch 220
Remi was a great tutor - always in good spirits and with lots of helpful tips!Esther - batch 220
Remi was one of the funniest, most motivating and most efficient Teaching Assistants I had.Louis - batch 177
👉 Lead Generation Manager: OpenDataSoft, 2014-2018 OpenDataSoft is a B2B SaaS that allows non-technical users to turn structured data into REST APIs and visualizations.
- Developed a lead generation pipeline from the ground up generating +600,000€ ARR.
- Coded opendatainception.io using an open source AngularJS widgets library and OpenDataSoft API to grow traffic acquisition. +100,000 unique visitors to date.
- Learnt technical workflow to maintain websites and projects: git, Github, code reviews, deployment, etc.
👉 Digital Marketing Consultant: RMMRCR, 2012-2014 Focused on strategies to create and leverage content across social media for grassroot organizations. Specialized in infographics explaining complex subjects such as the Common Agricultural Policy.
Education stuff:
👉 Fullstack Development Bootcamp (Batch #145): Le Wagon Paris, 2018 9-week intensive coding bootcamp learning HTML, CSS, Bootstrap, JavaScript ES2015, SQL, git, GitHub, Heroku and Ruby on Rails. Designed, Implemented and Shipped to production a clone of AirBnB and a Rails prototype of harry.team - an app to organize hassle-free bachelor(ette) parties.
👉 Master 2 Digital Project Management, 2016 Wrote a 140,000-character essay about the many ways APIs structure startup ventures.
Misc:
👉 Mentor: Rails Girls, 2018 Explaining RoR basics and helping out ~20 women to start building their ideas.
Toute la team de la journée ! Fierté ! pic.twitter.com/j8ot0djqa0
— RailsGirls Paris (@RailsGirlsParis) June 16, 2018