Romain Lafourcade
Front-End Architect at Razorfish France
Paris, Ile-de-France
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Top SchoolRomain Lafourcade is a Front-End Architect and technical leader based in Paris with 13 years of experience designing and delivering complex web platforms for major brands and enterprises. He combines a strong visual design background with deep front-end engineering—leading teams at Razorfish and Publicis.Sapient on large-scale projects using React, Vue, TypeScript, micro-frontends, CI/CD and cloud-native tooling. Romain has driven e-commerce and data-driven initiatives (Galeries Lafayette, Sanofi) and coached cross-functional teams through architecture, testing and release automation. He also contributes to developer-facing UI work in open source, having designed and refined the Vim color scheme "Apprentice," reflecting an attention to accessibility and polish that influences his product thinking. Colleagues know him for bridging creative design sensibilities with pragmatic engineering to deliver readable, maintainable front-end systems.
13 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bac Professionnel Communication Graphique Design graphique, Bac Professionnel Communication Graphique Design graphique at LP Corvisart, ParisCAP Dessin d'exécution en publicité, CAP Dessin d'exécution en publicité at LP Toulouse Lautrec, Bordeaux
English, espagnol (bases), verlan
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Github Skills (51)
text-editor10
autocomplete10
ide10
regex10
editor10
vi10
vim10
macos10
clipboard10
syntax-highlighting10
colors9
sublime-text9
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Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
romainl/Apprentice
Mar 2014 - May 2022
A dark, low-contrast, Vim colorscheme.
Role in this project:
UI Designer
UI DesignerContributions:3 releases, 157 commits, 28 PRs in 8 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Romain primarily contributed to the development of a Vim color scheme, Apprentice. Their work focused on defining and refining the visual appearance of various Vim elements, including highlighting groups for text, syntax elements, and UI components like the status line and tab line. They implemented changes to improve the color contrast and readability of the color scheme across different terminal emulators. This included adjustments to both GUI and terminal-based color settings.
vimvim-plugincolorschemeapprentice
romainl/romainl.github.io
Feb 2015 - Dec 2022
Contributions:19 pushes, 1 branch in 7 years 11 months
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