Michèle Legait
Senior Frontend Engineer at Riviera DEV - Sophia Antipolis - France
Valbonne, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France
Summary
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Top SchoolMichèle Legait is a Senior Frontend Engineer with over a decade of experience crafting accessible, user-focused web applications using TypeScript, React, and modern CSS. She has led front-end architecture and component libraries for complex, multi-tenant products—most notably overhauling an airline white-label booking engine with theming, plugins, Storybook, and WCAG 2.1 AA compliance. A pragmatic engineer and former Scrum Master, she blends hands-on coding with mentoring, code quality advocacy, and CI/CD testing practices (Jest, Cypress, Docker, Jenkins). Active in the Sophia Antipolis tech community, she organizes local developer events and communications, reflecting a strong commitment to knowledge-sharing beyond product work. Currently at Datadog, she continues to focus on scalable, maintainable front-end systems that prioritize UX and accessibility. Her background in enterprise and regulated domains gives her a rare combination of front-end polish and production-grade rigor.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Master professionnel, STIC ISI (Informatique et Science de l'ingénieur), Master professionnel, STIC ISI (Informatique et Science de l'ingénieur) at Polytech'Nice-SophiaMaster professionnel, STIC ISI (Informatique et Science de l'ingénieur), Master professionnel, STIC ISI (Informatique et Science de l'ingénieur) at Université de Nice-Sophia Antipolis
French, English
Github Skills (96)
storybook10
ui-components10
testing10
javascript10
html10
angular10
typescript10
vue10
svelte10
documentation10
react-native10
vite10
web-components10
webpack10
react10
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
mlegait/design-system-storybook-react
Jul 2019 - Apr 2022
This project is a POC. The goal is to see how Storybook can be used to build a Design System.
Contributions:15 commits, 4 PRs, 44 pushes in 2 years 9 months
storybook
mlegait/storybook-sandbox
Oct 2019 - Jul 2022
A sandbox to try things with Storybook
Contributions:15 PRs, 21 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 9 months
reactstorybooksandbox
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