Hi, I'm Xavier Poinas.

I'm a software engineer.
I'm passionate about technology and I love to build things.
I'm always looking for new challenges and opportunities to grow.
I'm currently working as a marketplace technical lead at Snapp.

Xavier Poinas

Personal Projects

  • Macros for Visual Studio

    An open-source extension for Visual Studio 2012-2022 that brings back support for macros in text/code editors.

    Macros can be used to automate repetitive text editing tasks.

    The extension can be downloaded on the Visual Studio Marketplace, and has more than 60,000 installs.

    The source code is available on GitHub and 5 other developpers have contributed to it.

  • Palmalytics

    A self-hosted, first-party, server-side web analytics dashboard for ASP.NET Core applications. It can replace standard client-side web analytics tools like Google Analytics and Matomo. It tracks pageviews, sessions, referrals, locations, user agents, and more.

  • Indoor Run Fixer

    An online tool that can correct the distance of indoor Strava treadmill runs.

    When you record an indoor run using the Strava app on your watch, Strava uses the pedometer in your watch to calculate the distance. This is often inaccurate. Indoor Run Fixer can fix this by letting you to enter the distance as reported by the treadmill.

  • SunSeeker

    A tool that can be used to research places in the world with ideal weather at a particular time of the year.

    Users can select a month and enter search criterias such as "at least 250 hours of sun a month", "minimum temperature of 15°C" and "less than 5 days of rain a month" and see the results on a map.

    It's a useful tool for holidayers, digital nomads and other location independent workers.

  • Bulgaro

    Bulgaro is an online Bulgarian course, with lessons, interactive exercises, and flashcards.

    It's a modern and fun way to learn Bulgarian online, with a focus on vocabulary and grammar.

  • Qui connaît un bon ?

    An online questions and answers platform for French speakers, who ask and provide recommendations for shops, restaurants, services, and more.

    The community of over 170,000 people covers 22 major cities in France and Belgium.

  • Gmail Notifier Replacement

    An open-source alternative to the official Google Gmail Notifier for Windows (which Google retired many years ago).

Tribway &
Darwin Marketplace

Tribway (& Tribway Consulting) is a startup that I co-founded in 2011. After several rounds of funding, pivots, and years of hard work, we successfully developed a marketplace platform that was acquired in 2019.

Here's the short version of the story.

Tribway came out in 2012 as one of the first social shopping platforms made in France. Here are a few numbers:

  • More than 60,000 users in 2 years
  • Strong virality, with more than 700,000 invites sent
  • More than 1,000 bloggers and influencers in the community
  • 4 prizes won: "Silver Palm of E-commerce" from the CCIP; "Silver Trophy for Technological Innovation" from E-commerce Magazine; "E-commerce Award" in the Social Commerce category; "Innovating B2C Service Prize" from Web2Connect.

Bolstered by the experience it had gained from successfully developing Tribway, the team then launched Tribway Consulting, a web agency specialized in the making of online marketplaces.

Our in-house built e-commerce and marketplace platform, Darwin Marketplace, lets us quickly and easily develop new, customized marketplaces for our clients.

The success of our project interested potential acquirers, and in 2019, we sold the company.

December 2011

I co-found Tribway with 4 friends, and take on the role of CTO.

October 2019

CIS Valley acquires Tribway and its Darwin Marketplace platform.

December 2021

Koesio acquires CIS Valley.

October 2023

Snapp acquires Darwin Marketplace from Koesio, as Koesio winds down its software development operations.

Today

I still lead the development of the Darwin Marketplace platform, which continues to thrive, at Snapp.

Contact us if you want to build a marketplace!

Technologies

I ♥ Microsoft technologies

(I also have 3 Microsoft certifications)

.NET
C#
SQL Server
PostgreSQL
Entity Framework
ASP.NET Core
Windows Forms
WPF
Vue.js
React
PowerShell
git