Rajekevin DOUREPOULLE

I started out writing code because I wanted to understand how software actually works, not just how to make it run. That question shaped the rest of my career more than any single technology did. Early on at Thales, I worked full-stack — Java, Angular, PHP, and RPA automation — on solutions for the energy sector and public institutions, which is where I first had to deal with systems too large and too critical to just rewrite when something felt wrong.

That constraint — improve a system you can't fully rebuild — is what pushed me toward backend work specifically, and toward PHP/Symfony and Java in particular. Since joining AFD Technologies (part of Accenture), I've worked across multi-technology, regulated environments for clients like CNAM and ANFSI, where every change has to be qualified, coordinated, and justified before it reaches production. Handling that kind of pressure repeatedly is what shifted my focus over time from "does it work" to "will this still be maintainable, and by whom, in two years" — which is why architecture, test discipline, and code quality now sit at the center of how I approach any project, on the clock or on my own time.