About - Simon André

At home

I work from a home office in Rennes, France. The same desk holds the database layer and the CSS.

My first website was about a Nintendo 64 game that had not been released yet. So this has been going on for a while.

At work

I'm a Lead Dev at SensioLabs (creator of Symfony). I'm working on a large Symfony project for the Police Scientifique, the French forensic police. Demanding, and fascinating.

I also work on Symfony UX. Since June 2026, that's officially part of my job one day a week. Everything else fills evenings and weekends.

At play

I've been part of the Symfony UX Core Team since 2024, working mostly on Twig Components and Live Components. I started UX Icons, UX Pagination, and UX Upload.

I care about what happens around the code too: explaining decisions, writing about the work, and talking with the people who use it.

Outside Symfony, I created Playwright PHP, Atelier SVG, PHPColor, and ALTO. Once in a while, I also build macOS apps, front-end experiments, and illustrations. See the projects.