Thomas Lemaire is a developer based out of Brussels, Belgium. He likes to work with web technologies, mostly open source. He finds great interrest in improving site usability to allow people to improve their efficiency, productivity and ... pleasure in using the web. His strong experience allows him to do everything that is related to a website: analysis, design, integration, development, hosting, architecting, consultancy...

He enjoys creating detail-oriented artwork combining design and killing features.
Since 2002 he has designed a wide range of sites starting from pure PHP sites to content management based sites with rich front end.

After working with several CMS (Mambo, Typo3, Wordpress) he has focused almost exclusively on Drupal development as full time freelancer from 2009.
His approach is flexible, practical, and straightforward.

Drupal skills

I am the maintainer of the OpenTastings distribution and the modules Youtube uploader, Taxonomy Proportion, Views COntent SCroll from EVerywhere and a few more.

beyond the basics (API, modules and theming), I have an extensive experience with

  • multisite (boa, aegir, domain module, table sharing, ...)
  • installation profile / distributions
  • configuration in code (features, ctools, drush, git, ...)
  • views and panels
  • performance (varnish, server & frontend optimization, caching, scaling,...)
  • multilingual

Other skills

  • front end development (html / css / jquery / responsive websites / angularJs)
  • design  (web / print)
  • flash AS3
  • server setup (Lamp)
  • other cms (Typo3 , Wordpress) and frameworks (Zend, code igniter)
  • OOP / design patterns