Kevin Balicot
Chief Technology Officer at Akawaka
Greater Lyon Area France
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Top SchoolKevin Balicot is a seasoned technology leader and CTO based in Greater Lyon with 11 years of hands-on experience designing and delivering custom web projects. He founded and leads Akawaka, an agency specializing in PHP, Symfony, Sylius and DDD-driven architectures, engaging clients both on time-and-materials and fixed-price contracts. Kevin progressed from PHP/MySQL developer roles to technical leadership, bringing practical expertise in back-end systems, e-commerce platforms and long-lived product delivery. He combines day-to-day coding experience with team leadership, having served as lead developer across multiple agencies before taking the CTO role. Though primarily focused on client work rather than open-source fame, his pragmatic approach to architecture and process helps translate complex requirements into maintainable, production-ready systems. Fluent in French and rooted in the Lyon tech scene, he’s open to collaborations through akawaka.fr rather than traditional recruitment.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Licence Pro (METINET) Métiers du web, Licence Pro (METINET) Métiers du web at IUT Lyon 1 - Bourg en BresseDUT Informatique, DUT Informatique at Université Claude Bernard (Lyon I)
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Github Skills (38)
seo9
css9
svg8
rich-editor8
nodejs8
html-element7
javascript7
sylius7
angular6
ecmascript6
price6
bootstrap6
des5
backpack5
discord5
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
kevinbalicot/yion-body-parser
Dec 2016 - Oct 2023
Contributions:20 pushes, 1 branch, 8 tags in 6 years 10 months
kevinbalicot/yion
Apr 2017 - Jul 2021
The most yionly node framework
Contributions:32 commits, 1 PR, 83 pushes in 4 years 3 months
frameworkjavascriptnodejstiny
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