Summary
Gaëtan Petit is a Senior Backend Developer based in Brussels with 13 years of experience building and modernizing web and SaaS platforms. He excels in PHP and Symfony, Elasticsearch and MySQL at scale, and has led migrations using the Strangler Fig pattern and strong test-driven practices. As a hands-on technical lead and Scrum Master, he blends architecture, mentoring and delivery—having driven video streaming, marketplace and influencer-marketing products. Comfortable across legacy modernization, high-volume indexing and API-driven design, he is known for turning complex legacy systems into maintainable, test-covered services. He began tinkering with HTML in the ’90s and brings that early curiosity to pragmatic engineering decisions and team empowerment.
13 years of coding experience
Master Informatique, Master Informatique at Université Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée
French, English