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Codebase is one person.

Hello, I’m Sylvain Briat. Nice to meet you.

A studio at human scale, AI-leveraged. I carry a product from idea to production, where it used to take a whole team.

Portrait of Sylvain Briat, founder of Codebase.

01 — End-to-end builder

One person, the whole chain.

My real strength isn’t a point-in-time skill: it’s the ability to understand your business and hold the thread from start to finish. AI provides the execution reach; the decisions stay on my side.

  1. 01

    Understand the business

    Grasp the context and the real problem, before any solution.

  2. 02

    Find solutions

    Explore the options, keep the simplest one that holds.

  3. 03

    Architect

    Derive a simple functional and technical architecture.

  4. 04

    Build, harness the AI

    Build while piloting the AI: it accelerates, I decide.

  5. 05

    Ship to production

    Deploy and run it — not just hand over code.

  6. 06

    Explain without jargon

    Make every choice clear, and the product resumable.

02 — Why solo

A choice, not a shortcoming.

I love carrying a product from idea to production: the UI/UX as much as the devops, the thread held from start to finish. Working solo isn’t working against specialists — I lean on them when a project calls for it. It’s simply how I build.

  • end-to-end
  • design → devops
  • expert backup when needed

03 — No black box

One person, no single point of failure.

A single person — what if they’re no longer around? The answer is in the method: every change is specified and documented, the spec is the durable asset. The product never depends on me alone, any team can pick it up.

  • spec = durable asset
  • resumable
  • no forced dependency

04 — Career path

A path, not a straight line.

  1. 01

    The foundations

    A master’s in computer science, first steps in software development and BI consulting for large accounts.

  2. 02

    Depth

    IT manager in industry, then a development engineer in public research.

  3. 03

    Leadership

    An IoT startup, then leading software development in mobility. Today, Codebase.

My career path in detail on LinkedIn ↗

05 — Stack

The right tech in the right place.

  • My reasoned default

    TypeScript, NestJS, VueJS, hexagonal architecture, Docker, MariaDB/PostgreSQL, geo tools. Simple, robust, maintainable.

  • My background

    Some PHP, some JS, some Python, a bit of native mobile (iOS & Android). Proven, ready when needed.

  • My reach

    Leveraged by AI, few technologies stay out of my reach: it accelerates, I decide.

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