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Matchem

Fullstack Engineer · Freelance · Mid-size, media · Paris · Jun 2022 – Dec 2023

Digital relaunch of Paris-Turf, France’s leading horse racing media (founded in 1946): websites, a component library and back office tools.

The company

Paris-Turf founded
1946
Wikipedia, Paris-Turf
Owner since 2021, Xavier Niel’s holding
NJJ
Autorité de la concurrence, Feb 2021
Titles in the group, 2020
~10
CB News, June 2020
Group revenue, 2020
€65.6M
CB News, June 2020

Product

Paris-Turf home page with the race programme
paris-turf.com, captured October 2026

Use cases

  • Website redesigns

    Several of the group’s websites in React and Next.js, on a shared Storybook component library.

  • Editorial back office

    A Retool back office for editorial teams.

  • APIs and infrastructure

    Maintained Node.js and Firebase APIs and GCP infrastructure with Terraform.

  • Quality

    Introduced unit testing and worked on performance, SEO and accessibility.

Stack

  • Next.js
  • React
  • Node.js
  • TypeScript
  • Storybook
  • Retool
  • GCP
  • Terraform

paris-turf.com ↗

Figures from my CV.