# Lorris Saint-Genez

> Software Engineer @ Algolia

Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/lorris

Github : https://github.com/LorrisSaintGenez

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer - Growth @ Algolia
Jan 2024 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area

### Software Engineer & Tech Lead @ Algolia
Jan 2020 – Jan 2024 | San Francisco, Californie, États-Unis
- Led company website redesign project, creating page templates to reduce friction and implementation time.
- Streamlined web content management by integrating a CMS, cutting down deployment and updates from days to hours.
- Led the successful migration of our blog to Next.js from Gatsby, enhancing user experience and boosting SEO.
- Upgraded search functionality on client projects, noticeably improving search speed and user engagement.
- Drove web optimization, resulting in smoother site navigation, better search rankings, and overall improved performance.
- Managed UI/UX redesigns, delivering user-friendly, cross-browser interfaces that uplifted the website's look and feel.
- Coordinated key web development initiatives, ensuring they matched our product and design strategy.
- Refined the CI pipeline for better code quality and faster deployments, reducing the time to roll out new features.

### Junior Software Engineer @ Algolia
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | Région de Paris, France
- Headed the complete development of the Search Grader tool, collaborating closely with stakeholders and engineering teams. Delivered a flawless release that boosted lead generation by 29%. Also, reintroduced the 'gimme' feature to improve utility for the Sales team and customers, based on its strategic recommendations.
- Orchestrated the transition of the Blog and React components library to TypeScript, to improve code safety and consistency.
- Implemented tree-shaking on the React components library, successfully optimizing code efficiency and performance. Overcame technical challenges to deploy a solution that optimized bundle sizes without requiring direct imports.

### Web Developer @ Porch
Jan 2018 – Jan 2019
Working at SERVIZ.com, Inc entity

- Enhance new technician onboarding through the development of tools to improve hiring
quality

### Junior Developer Intern @ SERVIZ
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Sherman Oaks, California
Develop new tools, enhance existing applications.

- Implement integration of new partnerships.

- Enhance the existing cancellation process through all Web platforms.

- SEO improvements (Structured Data & Meta tags).

- Enhance and develop internal tools.

- Develop a job posting tools.

- Participate in document and code reviews

### Full-Stack Web Developer Intern @ Société Générale
Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | Val de Fontenay
Developed a web application connecting multiple bank internal services.

- Implemented fast-and-easy work environment renewal, personal information access and material delivery schedule.

- Checked code to meet the standards and compatibility with browsers (IE11, recent Chrome and Firefox versions).

- Enhanced internal API, participated in code reviews and code coverage tests (greater than 80%).

- Delivered the minimum viable product in less than three months.


## Education
### Master of Science - MSc. in Computer Science - Web/Mobile Development
EPITA: Ecole d'Ingénieurs en Informatique

### Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) in Computer Science
Griffith College Dublin


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/lorris-saint-genez

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Last updated: 2026-03-29