Seventeen expertises to secure your IT.
Seventeen areas of expertise to build, modernize, secure and operate your PHP applications: from custom development to GDPR compliance, covering e-commerce, Shopify, ERP integrations, AI and tech leadership.
Custom PHP development
Business applications, SaaS, back-offices and APIs on Symfony, Laravel and API Platform.
See our full expertiseOur teams design and build robust, typed, tested PHP applications. DDD architecture, PHPUnit and Behat tests, native CI/CD from the first commit. From multi-tenant B2B platforms to internal back-offices and REST/GraphQL APIs, we deliver code that remains maintainable for ten years.
- →Upstream functional and technical scoping workshop
- →DDD architecture with clearly separated bounded contexts
- →Mandatory PHPUnit unit tests and Behat functional tests
- →Short pull requests reviewed within 24h, merge to main
- →GitHub Actions or GitLab CI operational from week 1
- ✓Symfony or Laravel application continuously delivered
- ✓Test coverage above 70% on the domain layer
- ✓Technical documentation (ADR, C4 diagrams, OpenAPI)
- ✓Reproducible CI/CD pipeline, staging + prod environments
- ✓Handover support and internal team training
- ·Launching a business platform or B2B SaaS
- ·Rebuilding an aging back-office
- ·Building an internal or public API
Advanced APIs & API Platform
Production-grade REST and GraphQL API design: auto-generated OpenAPI, JWT, Mercure SSE, pagination, rate limiting.
We make API Platform (Symfony framework) our signature: OpenAPI 3.1 generated automatically, REST, GraphQL and real-time Mercure support from a single resource definition. Typical use cases: headless CMS, mobile applications, multi-tenant SaaS platforms and partner ecosystems. Target P95 latency under 100 ms, documentation always in sync with code, endpoint contracts frozen through semantic versioning.
- →Resource and operation modeling, REST and GraphQL compliant
- →JWT and OAuth2 security, fine-grained scopes per operation
- →Symfony Validator validation and serialization groups
- →Automated contract tests (Hurl, Dredd, Postman/Newman)
- →Swagger UI and ReDoc documentation published on every release
- ✓OpenAPI 3.1 specification continuously versioned
- ✓API deployed with latency, error and quota monitoring
- ✓End-to-end test suite integrated into CI
- ✓Optional generated client SDK (TypeScript, PHP)
- ✓Rate limiter and multi-tenant quota management
- ·Need for a public API consumed by partners
- ·React or Vue front-end rebuild requiring an API-first backend
- ·Existing API that is slow, undocumented or unversioned
E-commerce & headless commerce
E-commerce platforms on Sylius, Adobe Commerce, PrestaShop or headless commerce with API-first approach.
We design robust e-commerce platforms covering catalog, cart, payment (Stripe, PayPal, Lyra), logistics connectors, B2B and B2C marketplaces, and multi-currency multi-site internationalization. Sylius is the natural pick for Symfony-native stacks with demanding catalogs; Adobe Commerce targets enterprise; PrestaShop remains relevant for French SMBs. On headless, we pair Shopify Hydrogen or Medusa.js with a Next.js front-end to decouple experience from commerce. PCI-DSS, e-commerce SEO and Core Web Vitals are built in from day one.
- →Catalog, checkout tunnel and logistics flow diagnosis
- →Multi-channel architecture and multi-currency internationalization
- →ERP, PIM and OMS integration via APIs and events
- →Black Friday load tests with realistic scenarios
- →End-to-end e-commerce SEO and Core Web Vitals optimization
- ✓PCI-DSS and GDPR compliant platform
- ✓Optimized checkout funnel with documented target conversion rate
- ✓Catalog fully manageable by your business teams
- ✓Operations dashboard: sales, stock, conversions, abandoned carts
- ✓Administrator and developer documentation delivered
- ·Black Friday traffic peak not handled by the current platform
- ·Need for a multi-country and multi-currency platform
- ·Migration from Magento 1 or PrestaShop 1.6 to a modern stack
Shopify & SaaS e-commerce
Shopify development, store creation, Liquid theme design and private apps for B2C and B2B merchants.
Certified Shopify Partner. Shopify store creation (Basic, Advanced, Plus), custom Liquid theme design and customization, private and public app development, headless integrations with Hydrogen + Remix, migration from Magento, WooCommerce or PrestaShop to Shopify Plus for fast-growing brands.
- →Purchase funnel framing and business specifics
- →Shopify plan selection (Basic, Advanced or Plus)
- →Liquid theme design aligned with the brand guidelines
- →Private app development for business logic
- →ERP, CRM and OMS integration via Shopify Admin API (REST + GraphQL)
- ✓Deployed and configured Shopify store
- ✓Custom Liquid theme, responsive and optimized
- ✓Documented and versioned private apps
- ✓Third-party integrations (Stripe, Klaviyo, Shippo, Mirakl)
- ✓Merchant team training and handover
- ·Magento, WooCommerce or PrestaShop migration to Shopify
- ·Need for a differentiating custom theme (beyond public templates)
- ·Shopify Plus ERP or OMS integration for multi-market B2B
Drupal & enterprise CMS
Drupal 10 and 11 development and maintenance for institutions, media, public administrations and complex content publishers.
Drupal remains the reference CMS for complex content, multi-site architectures, advanced editorial workflows and accessibility compliance (RGAA, WCAG). Strong positioning in France across public sector, media and higher-education research. Our teams work on core, contrib modules, custom modules and headless decoupling with the Next.js Drupal starter. Drupal Commerce integration when the catalog stays editorial-driven.
- →Architecture audit: custom vs contrib modules, debt, dependencies
- →BigPipe, render cache and Drupal internal cache optimization
- →Drupal 7 to Drupal 10 or 11 migration with the Migrate API
- →Security review via the Security Review module and SA-CORE tracking
- →RGAA accessibility compliance with automated and manual audits
- ✓Drupal site deployed with configuration pipeline (CMI)
- ✓Custom modules documented, tested and published internally
- ✓Quoted and sequenced D7 to D10/11 migration plan
- ✓RGAA accessibility audit with remediation plan
- ✓Training for editorial teams and administrators
- ·Drupal 7 to Drupal 10 or 11 migration (D7 end-of-life passed)
- ·Need for multi-site with centralized editorial governance
- ·Institutional site rebuild with RGAA compliance obligation
Migration & modernization
PHP versions (5.x → 8.3), framework to framework, legacy to modern, with zero downtime.
See our full expertiseWe handle complex PHP version upgrades (5.x → 8.3) and framework migrations (Zend → Symfony, Symfony 2 → 7, major Laravel, Yii → Symfony). Strangler-pattern approach, module by module, behind a façade that protects traffic. Rector automation, PHPStan regression lockdown, progressive switchover. No big-bang, no downtime.
- →Initial audit: inventory of modules, dependencies, coupling points
- →Application façade and feature flags setup
- →Rector + PHPStan max level to automate and lock down
- →Module-by-module migration with Behat regression tests
- →Progressive traffic switchover, instant rollback available at any time
- ✓Versioned migration plan quoted per batch
- ✓Automated regression test suite
- ✓Documented rollback strategy, tested in pre-prod
- ✓Reusable Rector scripts for your team
- ✓Closure report: before/after metrics (PHPStan, coverage, debt)
- ·End of life for a PHP version or framework
- ·Technical debt slowing down releases
- ·Acquisition or merger with IT rebuild
Application maintenance (ADM)
Third-party application maintenance on your critical PHP applications: corrective, evolutionary, preventive, with tailored SLA.
Our application maintenance service is a long-term commitment (12 to 36 months) with a formal SLA on response and resolution times, applied to legacy and modernized code alike. ITIL-light methodology, unified ticketing, monthly dashboard covering tickets, shipped evolutions and reduced debt. A cost-effective alternative to internal hiring for SMBs and mid-caps whose application is strategic but whose volume does not justify a full-time dedicated team. Contractual reversibility documented from kickoff.
- →Codebase onboarding: 4-week mapping, initial runbooks
- →Service catalog definition and contractual scope
- →Ticketing setup (Jira or GitHub Issues) and SLA
- →Incident runbook with recovery and escalation procedures
- →Monthly reporting and quarterly steering review
- ✓Documented and signed service catalog
- ✓Incident runbooks and recovery procedures
- ✓Monthly reporting: tickets, SLA, evolutions, debt
- ✓Technical debt reduction measured quarter after quarter
- ✓Annual evolution plan aligned with business roadmap
- ·Original developer gone, orphaned application with no backup
- ·Recurring production incidents never resolved for good
- ·Internal budget too tight to staff a dedicated team
ERP & enterprise systems integrations
Robust connectors to SAP, Sage, Salesforce, Dynamics, Odoo, Cegid — real-time or batch synchronization.
We build bi-directional integrations between ERPs and PHP applications, via REST or SOAP APIs, EDI, or ESBs (MuleSoft, Symfony Messenger, Apache Kafka). Explicit error handling, idempotency, incident recovery, full audit trail. Typical use cases: e-commerce to SAP for stock and orders, CRM to ERP for customer accounts, PIM to front-end for product catalog. Every flow is documented, monitored and end-to-end testable.
- →Mapping of flows, formats and source and target systems
- →Pattern selection: synchronous, batch or event-driven
- →Idempotent design with business keys and event log
- →Dedicated monitoring with alerting on lag and failure rate
- →End-to-end tests with representative datasets
- ✓Documented integration blueprint, sequence diagrams per flow
- ✓Connector(s) delivered, versioned and tested
- ✓Monitoring dashboard and exchange history
- ✓Troubleshooting runbook per flow type
- ✓Incident recovery plan with replay procedure
- ·Data out of sync between ERP and e-commerce
- ·Merger or acquisition project with two systems to reconcile
- ·ERP migration (Sage to Dynamics 365, for example)
Technical audits
Code, architecture, performance and security audits. Prioritized, actionable deliverables.
See our full expertiseWe conduct thorough technical audits on your PHP applications: code, architecture, performance, security. Static analysis (PHPStan, Psalm, Rector), manual architecture review, real profiling, vulnerability scanning. A decision-oriented deliverable with identified quick wins, quantified technical debt and prioritized critical risks. Useful before an acquisition, a fundraising round or a major refactor.
- →Full static analysis (PHPStan, Psalm, Rector, Deptrac)
- →Manual architecture review and layer separation check
- →Real profiling in a representative environment (Blackfire, Tideways)
- →Dependency and CVE scan, OWASP Top 10 review
- →Debrief workshop with prioritized remediation plan
- ✓Prioritized report: critical risks / quick wins / structural debt
- ✓Remediation roadmap priced at 3, 6 and 12 months
- ✓Quantitative scorecard (PHPStan, coverage, complexity, duplication)
- ✓Executive presentation for the ExCom or board
- ✓Handover workshop with your architects or CTO
- ·Technical due diligence before acquisition or fundraising
- ·Perceived but unquantified technical debt
- ·Production incident, need for an outside perspective
Cybersecurity
OWASP Top 10, application pentest, server hardening, secrets management, GDPR and ISO 27001 compliance.
See our full expertiseOur cybersecurity experts apply OWASP, ANSSI and ISO 27001 standards to your PHP applications. Grey-box application pentest, security-oriented code review, server hardening (SELinux, fail2ban, TLS 1.3), secrets management via Vault or AWS Secrets Manager. Remediation plan prioritized by CVSS criticality, support through to compliance.
- →Threat modeling (STRIDE) on critical flows
- →Grey-box application pentest based on the OWASP Testing Guide
- →Targeted code review: authentication, authorization, I/O
- →Server hardening and ANSSI / ISO 27001 compliance
- →CVSS-prioritized remediation plan with validated patches
- ✓Pentest report with reproducible proof-of-concepts
- ✓OWASP Top 10 checklist ticked or argued item by item
- ✓Hardened server configuration (Nginx, PHP-FPM, firewall)
- ✓Secrets management and rotation policy
- ✓GDPR processing register and DPIA when applicable
- ·Customer or partner request for a security audit
- ·Preparing ISO 27001 or SOC 2 certification
- ·Suspicious incident, potential data leak
GDPR compliance & fractional DPO
GDPR compliance for PHP applications and fractional DPO support: mapping, DPIA, register, training.
A natural extension of our cybersecurity expertise, we handle processing mapping, record of processing activities (Article 30) drafting and upkeep, DPIAs for sensitive processing, sub-processor contract review, data subject rights management, team training and annual audits. One-off initial compliance missions or recurring fractional DPO engagements, matched to the size and maturity of the organization.
- →Initial audit: processing mapping and gap identification
- →Remediation plan prioritized by risk and legal requirement
- →Record of processing and DPIAs for sensitive processing
- →Drafting of policies: privacy, cookies, sub-processing
- →Team training and permanent advisory role on evolutions
- ✓Up-to-date record of processing, Article 30 compliant
- ✓DPIAs for sensitive processing, validated by the DPO
- ✓Public privacy policy and internal policy
- ✓Sub-processor agreements compliant with Article 28
- ✓Annual compliance maintenance plan with periodic reviews
- ·CNIL formal notice or announced inspection
- ·Launch of a new product involving sensitive data
- ·No DPO in place while the activity legally requires one (Article 37)
Performance & scalability
Profiling, multi-layer caching, database tuning, HTTP/2, CDN, load balancing.
We identify bottlenecks through real profiling (Blackfire, Tideways) on a representative load environment. Multi-layer caching (OPcache, Redis, Varnish, CDN), PostgreSQL and MySQL tuning, Doctrine N+1 query optimization, HTTP/2 and HTTP/3 activation, load balancing. Quantified, measured targets, contractually committed.
- →Real production profiling via Blackfire or Tideways
- →Reproducible load tests (k6, Locust, JMeter)
- →Database tuning: indexes, execution plans, partitioning
- →Multi-layer caching: OPcache, Redis, Varnish, CDN
- →Load balancing, HTTP/2 / HTTP/3, Brotli compression
- ✓Before/after profiling report with p50, p95, p99 metrics
- ✓Reusable load test scripts integrated in CI
- ✓Documented caching and CDN configuration
- ✓Scaling plan up to 10x current traffic
- ✓Grafana or Datadog dashboards on critical SLIs
- ·Noticeable degradation of response times
- ·Preparing for a traffic peak (Black Friday, campaign)
- ·User or data volume growth
DevOps & infrastructure
CI/CD, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, Ansible, monitoring with Prometheus, Grafana and Datadog.
We industrialize your deliveries through automation: reproducible CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI), Docker containerization, Kubernetes orchestration, Infrastructure as Code via Terraform and Ansible. Monitoring and alerting via Prometheus, Grafana and Datadog. Goal: reduce lead time, eliminate manual deploys, make infrastructure auditable.
- →Multi-stage CI/CD pipelines (build, test, scan, deploy)
- →Optimized multi-stage Docker images, non-root by default
- →Versioned Infrastructure as Code (reusable Terraform modules)
- →Golden signals monitoring: latency, traffic, errors, saturation
- →Systematic runbooks and post-mortems after incidents
- ✓Operational CI/CD pipelines across all environments
- ✓Documented Terraform modules with usage examples
- ✓Idempotent Ansible playbooks for server configuration
- ✓Kubernetes cluster with Helm charts and scaling policy
- ✓Complete observability stack (logs, metrics, traces)
- ·Manual, slow or risky deploys
- ·Need for a reproducible environment for new developers
- ·Preparing SOC 2 or ISO 27001 certification
Managed cloud hosting
LAMP/LEMP managed hosting, AWS, GCP, Azure, OVHcloud, 24/7 monitoring, encrypted backups.
We host and manage your critical PHP applications on AWS, GCP, Azure or OVHcloud. Hardened LAMP and LEMP stacks, 24/7 monitoring, encrypted backups with quarterly restore tests, security patches applied in maintenance windows, DRP ready. SLA contracts at 99.5%, 99.9% or 99.95% depending on criticality.
- →Multi-AZ target architecture, prod / staging / dev separation
- →Encrypted backups, 30-day retention, quarterly restore tests
- →24/7 monitoring with on-call on committed SLAs
- →Monthly patch management, announced maintenance window
- →Documented disaster recovery plan, tested annually
- ✓Managed hosting with contractual SLA
- ✓Customer dashboard: availability, incidents, usage
- ✓Monthly report: incidents, applied patches, backups
- ✓Documented DRP, quantified RTO and RPO
- ✓Time-and-materials support on critical incidents
- ·Critical application without professional managed hosting
- ·Cloud migration or provider consolidation
- ·Need for a formal SLA with penalties
Software architecture
Stack selection, design patterns, DDD, microservices, event-driven, CQRS, scaling plan.
We support architectural decision-making: stack selection, design patterns, modular monolith vs microservices, event-driven, CQRS, Event Sourcing. Data schemas, bounded contexts, scaling plan. Every decision is logged in a versioned ADR (Architectural Decision Record), so your team understands the why as much as the how.
- →Event Storming workshops to map the domain
- →Stack selection documented (ADR) with discarded alternatives
- →C4 diagrams (context, containers, components, code)
- →Scaling plan quantified by tier (x2, x5, x10)
- →Continuous architecture review during the project
- ✓Complete technical architecture document
- ✓Versioned ADR registry
- ✓C4 diagrams and sequence diagrams
- ✓Scaling plan with tipping points
- ✓Coding charter and layer separation rules
- ·Launching a new strategic product
- ·Growth exceeding monolith capacity
- ·Need to rework architecture without rewriting everything
Artificial intelligence
LLM integration (Claude, GPT, Mistral), RAG on business data, autonomous agents, fine-tuning, MLOps.
See our full expertiseWe integrate generative AI into your business applications without hype-chasing: LLMs (Claude, GPT, Mistral), RAG on internal corpora with vector DBs (Qdrant, Pinecone, pgvector), orchestrated autonomous agents, targeted fine-tuning when relevant. Full MLOps pipelines: evaluation, observability, guardrails and controlled costs. AI must solve a problem, not create one.
- →Use case framing with measurable success criteria
- →Model selection by latency, cost and quality (upfront eval)
- →RAG pipeline: ingestion, embeddings, indexing, re-ranking
- →Guardrails: prompt injection, PII, hallucinations, moderation
- →Observability: costs, latencies, quality, drift
- ✓POC evaluated on a representative dataset
- ✓Production RAG pipeline or agent with monitoring
- ✓Cost dashboard per use case and per customer
- ✓Versioned prompt engineering documentation
- ✓Evolution plan: fine-tuning, alternative models, cost optimization
- ·Need for semantic search on internal data
- ·Automating a cognitively heavy task
- ·Competitive edge to build on generative AI
Tech Leadership
CTO as a Service, fractional Lead Tech, code review, mentoring, technical hiring.
We provide a senior fractional CTO or Lead Tech to structure your engineering: technical choices, engineering process, continuous code review, team mentoring, technical hiring, product scoping. Useful for early-stage startups, scale-ups with 10 to 40 developers, or IT services companies building an expertise center.
- →Initial diagnosis of the team, code and process
- →Rituals setup: stand-up, code review, retro
- →Continuous code review on sensitive pull requests
- →One-on-one mentoring for high-potential profiles
- →Hiring participation: technical tests, interviews, onboarding
- ✓Quarterly engineering roadmap
- ✓Coding charter and pull request guide
- ✓Documented hiring process with technical tests
- ✓Monthly ExCom report on tech and team health
- ✓Individual upskilling plan per profile
- ·Post-seed startup without a full-time CTO
- ·Scale-up with a doubling team and breaking processes
- ·IT services company launching a senior expertise hub
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