Description

I have 18+ years of software development experience and strong knowledge of .NET. I am passionate about performance problems, curious, and always ready to adapt to new environments and technologies.

During 12 years I have managed different multi-cultural teams (from 4 to 12 engineers) in an interesting but challenging fast-paced environment (AdServing). I'm good at unit a team of héteroclite people to achieve complex tasks.

Industry field of expertise

Languages

French
Native or bilingual
English
Fluent

Workplace preferences

Can work on-site

Paris (up to 50km)

Equativ (formerly Smart)
Backend Squad Team Lead & Internal tooling lead
May 2011 - October 2023 (12 years and 5 months)
Paris, France
I launched the RTB activity (« Real-Time Bidding », real-time auctions for online advertisements) as an architect. Started from a small team, using SCRUM methodology, my role evolved to tech lead of a 5+ people team. The activity now generates many billions of auctions per month. Specification, development, and test of the real-time auction engine:
• Collect and process of information in real-time
• Creation of the partner Integration activity (check process, technical meetings, tool …)
• Meetings/exchange with POs and other teams (QA, UI, Hadoop, Product)
• Pair programming
• Tech lead .NET (C#), dot-net core, Visual Studio, RabbitMQ, Rx/SignalR, NUnit, SQL TypeScript, Angular, Material Design Performance, Scrum, Management
Ibm
Software Architect, Rules Engine team - ILOG BRMS Websphere
February 2003 - May 2011 (8 years and 3 months)
In the Business Rules Engine team, I was in charge of the development of tools allowing the native execution of the business rules engine into the .NET Platform. The source code was in written Java and must be translated into C# source code. The Eclipse plug-in allowing that automatic translation has been open-sourced and used by other companies.
• Translation and adaptation to .NET of the ILOG business rules engine ILOG (BRMS "Rules for .NET").
• Development of an Eclipse plug-in allowing the automatic translation of Java source code into C#. Java, Bytecode, Eclipse, .NET (C#), CLR, Visual Studio, BRMS, AST, Plug-in, Open-Source http://j2cstranslator.sourceforge.net/
INRIA
Engineer
February 1999 - December 2002 (3 years and 10 months)
Sophia Antipolis, Valbonne, France
In a small research team, with both engineer and Ph.D., we have developed the SmartTools factory (Schlumberger/Bull/Microsoft partnership), a generator of IDE for Domain Specific Language. Started from abstract and concrete specifications of a domain specific language (syntax, semantic and grammar), the tool generates all what you need to work with that language (parser, compiler, IDE).
• Specification, development, unit tests
• http://www-sop.inria.fr/teams/lognet/SmartTools/index.html.