RoleFreelance Tech Lead · Software Architect

BasedAnnecy, FR · Remote friendly

Since2009 · 15+ years shipping

StatusOpen for missions

Buildingrobust software,scalable products,& teams that ship.

I'm Vincent Composieux — a freelance Tech Lead and Software Architect. I help teams turn tangled backends into calm, observable systems: Go, Symfony, Kubernetes, event-driven workflows. Currently: rebuilding video delivery at TF1.

CurrentTF1 · Video Team →

Writing25 posts · EN / FR

Speaking5 conf talks

OSS7 open-source works

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What I'm up to right now

A now
page, not a dead portfolio.

Currently shipping

Video delivery, in Go

TF1 · Video team · Temporal workflows, DASH/HLS, OTT + IPTV. Tech lead since 2023.

Annecy · France

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Based in the French Alps, working remotely with teams across Europe. Available for freelance missions — backend, architecture, or fractional CTO roles.

45.8992° N6.1296° E

By the numbers

Years shipping17+

Essays published25

Conference talks5

Open-source works7

TF1 · Video platform in Go · ongoingOpen for new missions · 2026Writing in EN / FR · weekly-ishOSS maintainer · gocache, authz, mondaySpeaking · conferences across EuropeAnnecy · remote friendly · works in EN / FRTF1 · Video platform in Go · ongoingOpen for new missions · 2026Writing in EN / FR · weekly-ishOSS maintainer · gocache, authz, mondaySpeaking · conferences across EuropeAnnecy · remote friendly · works in EN / FR

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7 missions · 1 craft · 15+ years

Selected missions.

01Archyl.com - FounderFounder ~ Architecture Intelligence PlatformDec 2025 - Present↗

Go · TypeScript · Next.js

02TF1 - FreelanceTech lead ~ Architect (Video Team)Feb 2023 - Present↗

Go · Temporal.io · AWS MediaConvert

03Crédit Agricole - FreelanceTech lead ~ Cloud Architect2022 - 2023↗

Go · Terraform · Kubernetes

04TF1 - FreelanceTech lead ~ Architect (Backend Team)2018 - 2022↗

Go · GraphQL · gRPC

05France Télévisions - Eleven LabsArchitect - France.tv2018 - 2018↗

PHP · Symfony · Elasticsearch

06ETS GlobalTech lead ~ Architect2017 - 2018↗

PHP · Symfony · Elasticsearch

07CNAMTS - Digital factoryTech lead2016 - 2017↗

PHP · Symfony · Elasticsearch

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§ 03

Drag to explore · tools I reach for daily

A toolkit,
not a buzzword cloud.

PHP

Rust

TypeScript

Symfony

React · Next.js

Temporal.io

gRPC · Protobuf

GraphQL

Kafka

Kubernetes

Terraform

AWS

GCP

ArgoCD · GitOps

Prometheus

Grafana

OpenTelemetry

Redis

Elasticsearch

drag any tag · release to float back · 20 tools in rotation

§ 04

EN · FR · essays · weekly-ish

Writing, not content.

Latest · Jan 17, 2026

Introducing Archyl: AI-powered architecture documentation for modern teams

I built Archyl, an AI-powered architecture documentation platform that helps organizations visualize and understand their entire software ecosystem using the C4 model.

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Essays

Talks

20+

Feb 08, 2025

Optimizing build times with Bazel and Buildfarm

Optimizing build times is crucial for maintaining a fast and efficient development pace in continuous integration pipelines.

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Mar 09, 2024

LLM with Ollama and similarity search with Qdrant, vector database

I have been interested in vector databases. Unlike a relational database, where data is organized into tables with rows and columns, in a vector database, data is represented as vectors in a high-dimensional space.

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