Hello, NYT!

This is a page I put together to introduce myself and present some projects that you might find relevant.

So who is this guy?

My name is Mikaël Gramont, I'm an experienced Web Developer.

Background

In the industry since 2007
Confortable on very small and really large scale projects
Love the Web Platform
Performance, a11y and progressive enhancement
Currently residing and freelancing in France 🇫🇷

Experience

Timeline details

Company	Location	Role	From	Until
Gibmedia	Toulouse, France	Web Developer	1/15/2007	6/15/2010
Carsala	Berkeley, CA	Fullstack Developer	6/15/2010	9/14/2010
GridNet	San Francisco, CA	Senior Front-End Engineer	9/15/2010	10/7/2011
YouTube	San Bruno, CA	Senior UX Engineer	10/10/2011	7/15/2016
Google A&C	Paris, France	Senior UX Engineer	7/15/2016	9/30/2017
On a break	Biarritz, France		10/1/2017	2/16/2018
OnRewind	Bidart, France	Senior Front-End Engineer	2/19/2018	7/20/2019
	Arbonne, France	Freelancer	7/25/2019	5/25/2020

On the technical side

Current go-to toolbox

Languages & tools come and go, but listing them helps form a mental picture of a candidate.

I've also picked up and done some work in C, Java, Python and Ruby, PostgreSQL and others.

Want to invest in

WebGL/WebXR
trimming fat from the Front-end!
the distributed Web
data visualisation

On the personal side

Values

pragmatism, not dogma
communication, not rot
bottom-up, not top-down
collective progress, not fingerpointing

Aspirations

To serve a purpose
To continue to learn
To share and help

Hand-picked projects

Some of my personal and professional work:

Surfing Dirt
2019/2020

[Link]
A social network built in React / GraphQL / Node / PHP

I wrote a detailed blog post on the project.

Interesting bits

the translation process

tracing

no-JS

Code samples

React: comment list ([Github repo])

GraphQL: translation resolver ([Github repo])

REST API: JWT model ([Github repo])
Google Arts & Culture
2017

[Link]
The user favorites page - built in Java / Google Closure

The page for users to list their favorite paintings, and to create personal galleries.

What the page looks like

Interesting bits

hybrid app

excruciatingly slow progress

Code samples

Sorry, this is not my code to share 😢
Draw Me a Kicker
2015

[Link]
A 3D editor built in Polymer / three.js

A tool I built to help people design their own ramps.

VR works, if you have a Cardboard viewer

Interesting bits

Web Components via Polymer (v1.0 was just released)

Dynamic 3D shape generation

Served as my project for a design course

Code samples
React: comment list ([Github repo])
YouTube - Gangnam Style easter egg
2014

[Link]
A celebration of Gangnam Style's 2 billion views - canvas

The page for users to list their favorite paintings, and to create personal galleries.

That was exciting!

Interesting bits

high-risk, low-reward project

collaboration with another developer and a designer

down-sampling of rendered text to generate sprite positions

Code samples

That code is long gone - and not mine 😢

Thanks for your time!

For more info, check out my full résumé page here.