Hallo Img.ly, ich bin Mikael!

I’ll revert right back to English, as I don’t speak German! 😬

I just ran into your job listings here and here, and thought I’d drop you a line through this page.

So who’s this guy?

My name is Mikaël Gramont, I’m an experienced Web Developer. Lists are easy to scan, so a few things about me:

• been a professional Web Dev since 2007.
• I’ve done a bunch of Back-end but like the Front-end best
• spent a few years in Silicon Valley working for Google
• currently reside in France
• love the Web platform, and care about performance, a11y and progressive enhancement

Why’s he interested in Img.ly?

I’ve always liked to work with images. When I was a kid, I loved to play with graphics programs (Paint Shop Pro 3!), 3D suites (3D Studio… before it was Max), and games, so I’m naturally drawn to your PhotoEditorSDK project!

In fact, regardless of the outcome of our conversations, I might try and integrate it into my Surfing Dirt project (see below)!

Personal projects portfolio

Check out some of my personal projects that could convey my interests:

• Surfing Dirt - 2019/2020 - React / Node / GraphQL

  A personal project which I wrote about extensively in a dedicated post.
  TLDR; a modern REST/GraphQL/React social network app.

  The live site is at https://www.surfingdirt.com/.

• Canvas experiment - 2018 - Vanilla JS / canvas

  Just messing about with canvas, more details in a dedicated post

• My vector self - 2016 - Affinity Designer

  With the goal of making business cards, I set out to draw a vector version of myself:

  

• Draw me a kicker - 2015 - Polymer JS / three.js

  This was a fun one. A PolymerJS and Three.js powered app to generate custom ramp designs for action sports.

  Check out the live site and the full blog post.

• Manikin - 2015 - Vanilla JS / canvas

  A JS/canvas port of a toy I wrote back when I was 16. More info here and here.

• Gangnam Style easter egg- 2014 - Closure

  This wasn't a personal project, but more of a thing a couple of YouTube colleagues and I built outside of work.

  An easter egg we wrote and put on the YouTube video page when Gangnam Style reached 2 billion views.
  Ziling Zhao and I worked on integrating the code into the page, did the canvas and custom JS, and added character animations provided by Taeho Ko.
  

  Thx @YouTube for giving me this by my counter!! This means 2billion in Korean. :-) 유튜브 조회수 옆 저를 클릭해보세요 ^__^ pic.twitter.com/HljSEEFBPW

  — PSY (@psy_oppa) May 31, 2014

• Jim - 1996 - The Games Factory

  This was a platform game I created in high school with a program called The Games Factory.
  I did all the graphics by hand, using the Manikin program which I ported to JS (see above).

My full résumé

Those above projects are things I did of my own volition. For a more complete picture of my background, please check out my résumé or LinkedIn.

Code samples

You can find code samples on my résumé page.

That’s it

So there you have it, I hope to hear from you soon!