About Me

In short

👋🏻 Hi, I'm Loic Blanchard, a Staff Software Engineer based in Singapore with over 5 years of experience in building scalable software solutions. My expertise lies in designing and leading the development of high-quality software systems, primarily using the Functional Programming language Clojure and its ecosystem. I am currently leading the engineering team at Flybot Pte Ltd.

My journey

After I got my Master in CS at 🇫🇷 CPE Lyon, I started my career as a software engineer with at 🇸🇬 Flybot Pte Ltd developing pure Game backend API solutions using the Functional Programming paradigm with Clojure. I then worked on porting our Clojure logic to the CLR using the Magic Compiler that generates .NET assemblies from Clojure code and which is compatible with Unity, the frontend used for our games.

I also created the company's website using a Clojure(Script) full-stack, leveraging some of our CEO's open-source libraries to showcase our custom web stack. I also experimented with mobile app development demonstrating that we could reuse most of the ClojureScript frontend state management (Re-Frame) from the web app.

I then worked on a event-driven multi-recommender system to send personal challenges to our players. It uses Kafka for event streaming, Datomic for storage, Prometheus/Grafana for monitoring, and it is containerized. The CI/CD is done in Gitlab. The apps are deployed in AWS EKS.

Finally, I am currently working on a data aggregator using Red Planet Labs's RAMA platform which simplifies building distributed systems by providing a high-level, declarative framework that abstracts away the complexities of managing state, concurrency, and communication.

Responsibilities:

• Leading software architecture design and project management, reporting directly to the CEO.
• Conducting technical interviews and onboarding new engineers.
• Developing scalable and robust backend systems using Clojure, Kafka, and Datomic.
• Designing mobile and web applications that share logic using ClojureScript, Re-frame, Reagent (React) and Reagent React Native.
• Building Containerized applications to enhance our gaming platforms.
• Porting Clojure backend logic to .NET to allow Clojure backend APIs to be used in Unity.

Skills

ICTS

• Back-End: Clojure, Java, C#
• Front-End: ClojureScript, HTML, CSS, JS, Reagent (React), Re-frame, figwheel-main
• Database: PostgreSQL, Datomic, Datalevin
• Mobile: Reagent React Native, figwheel-main
• Cloud: AWS, Vercel, Netlify
• Containers: Docker, k8s, AWS EKS
• Event Streaming: Kafka
• Project Management: GitHub, Gitlab, Bitbucket, Trello, Jira, Slack, Jenkins

Certifications

• AWS: Solutions Architect - Associate