Francis Hilaire

France · PHP · Symfony

PHP / Symfony developer.
Sylius key contributor.

Specialising in payment methods, I contribute to e-commerce products and the evolution of the open-source Sylius ecosystem.

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Career

Building, evolving, sharing.

Since 2018

Head of Web · FLUX::

Designing and evolving the Sylius e-commerce shop, web infrastructure, accounting synchronisation, and sales reporting with Elasticsearch and Kibana. FLUX:: joined HARMAN Professional Solutions in 2023, within the Samsung group.

2009 — 2018

Web developer, then project manager · Force-Interactive

Growing from web development into project delivery for organisations and national brands.

2008 — 2009

Web intern · ADS-COM

First professional experience and discovery of Symfony in a PHP, ASP.NET and ColdFusion environment.

Education

IT degree · SUPINFO

Academic IT background, completed with a SUPINFO degree and TOEIC certification in 2010.

Expertise

From technical foundations to payment journeys.

PHP / SymfonyApplication architecture, integration and long-term systems.
SyliusCore platform contributions and e-commerce extensions.
PaymentsPayment methods, Stripe, Payment Request and gateway integrations.
E-commerce & APIsShops, data synchronisation and business integrations.
InfrastructureLinux environments, servers and web operations.
Software qualityTesting, code reviews and continuous improvement in open source.

Open source

Selected contributions.

Major contribution · Sylius

Payment Request

A foundational contribution to Sylius’ payment architecture: designing and implementing Payment Request to modernise payment flows and reduce historical reliance on Payum.

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Stripe

Sylius Payum Stripe Plugin

Sylius / Payum payment plugins and gateways around Stripe and Strong Customer Authentication.

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European VAT

Sylius EU VAT Plugin

An extension for adding and managing European VAT numbers in Sylius.

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Security

Sylius hCaptcha Plugin

A Sylius extension that adds hCaptcha fields to front-end forms, helping protect them from automated submissions.

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GitHub

Other projects

Explore all my public contributions, libraries and technical experiments.

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Let’s connect

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