Four ninjas,
passionate,
conscientious,
with
values
Agnès Crépet
Agnès strives to make tech more inclusive, fair, and sustainable, rather than presenting it as the solution to everything.
She has worked primarily for Fairphone since 2018 as Head of Software Engineering. Fairphone is a European company that designs and manufactures modular and sustainable smartphones, with a focus on repairability, longevity, and more ethical sourcing and manufacturing practices.
She is also a member of the boards of Mouton Numérique, a technocritical collective on the challenges technology poses to our societies, and of Commown, the first sustainable electronics rental cooperative that has chosen the functionality economy as opposed to the linear sales model.
She also co-founded MiXiT, an annual tech event organized in France since 2011, which brings together nearly 1,000 participants and works for more diversity and ethics in tech.In the past, she co-directed Duchess France, an association that makes women in IT more visible.
Cédric Exbrayat
Cédric is, above all, a passionate person who started coding shortly after learning to read. After starting his career as a Java backend developer, he fell in love with the world of JavaScript and its frameworks.
He is now a contributor to several open-source projects. He is notably part of the teams building the Angular and Vue frameworks, and is one of the world's top contributors in these ecosystems. By the way, he has written an ebook and an online training course on each.
He also loves teaching these technologies, and regularly conducts training courses remotely or on-site.
Cyril Lacôte
Cyril spent 10 years as a contractor for consulting companies, working as a Java developer and trainer. He was told there that programming was dirty and that he should think about doing a real job.
He then became Software Engineer at Google London, furtively. His job, closer to pre-sales than development, was not his cup of tea, so he rapidly left.
After a world tour during this improvised sabbatical, he cofounded Ninja Squad, and spent 6 years there. He had two kids.
Since relocating to Amsterdam with the family, he's now working as developer for Adyen.
Besides software development, he has long been a frustrated artist. Then he accepted to be a better spectator than actor. Some would say it's maturity, others would say he just became an old fart. Now he simply enjoys guzzling movies and series, and being the soccer mum of his kids.
Cyril likes: hens, circumflex accents, cantaloupe, and going to bed late. Cyril doesn't like: being predictable, grapefruit, people who like nothing, and having to wake up early.
Jean-Baptiste Nizet
Jean-Baptiste is usually referred to as JB. He doesn't drink coffee which makes him a special developer.
JB likes simple but well-executed solutions, seeing the automated tests progress bar reach completion, documenting his code.
He doesn't like Maven, nor meetings that last too long.
But life isn't all about work. JB also enjoys scuba-diving, which he practices less these days, and hiking, which he practices assiduously.
Our values
We love development but we are also aware that digital technology can have devastating effects.
We will not push a technical solution if we think we can do without it.
We also do not wish to work on projects that destroy the planet and its inhabitants (petrochemicals, weapons...).
We love human-scale projects that bring social and human value and not just financial value.
We respect users and their privacy.
We think that accessibility is important.
We believe in open-source and we are part of this approach of sharing and exchange, each in our own way.