Job experience

• April 2017 - Now

  Shutterstock Montreal, Senior Dev

  • Create a proxy to insulate a former company property from direct unrestricted access to much of the infrastructure, thus enabling a 52 million $ sales (the company property in question)
  • Migrate several services from an old datacenter to AWS, saving 96% of the used RAM, and 70% of the CPU, also saving the company tons of recurring costs in the process.
  • Participate in the migration of a poorly-scaling PHP app to a much better engineered Node app
  • Participate in the design of a new version of a company service built to take the Footage offering of Shutterstock to the 21st century
  • Help and mentor many different teams on migrations to Kubernetes and Apigee
  • Design and collaborate on a piece of software that allows versioning of configuration in Apigee
• July 2015 - April 2017

  LightSpeed Retail, Senior Dev

  I had to design and build synchronization framework between the POS solution and the eCommerce solution the company provides together with the team, in order to enable brick-and-mortar stores to quickly and easily spin up an eCommerce site for their store. At a later time, I was also on the team tasked with the design of a data analysis & reporting pipeline so that we could deliver a complete and sensible reporting solution to our clients.

  Achievements

  • Presented 7 tech talks over the course of a year
  • Instigated and maintainted a community of practice to promote developer training
  • Integrated together two solutions that respectively have over 10k clients each
  • Implemented a data pipeline that would generate real-time reports for all of those customers
• April 2013 - July 2015

  Seedbox Tech, Tech Lead

  As a Tech Lead, it was my job to guide my team into making the best technological decisions they possibly could. I'd keep track of technical debt and etch out a repayment plan that was aligned with the business' product roadmap. I also had to mentor and guide my fellow teammates from a tech standpoint, helping them become better programmers, thus making sure we had a technically strong team.

  Achievements

  • Gave an unscalable app a technological facelift by replacing portions of the stack piecemeal. From over 200ms response time down to under 10ms, excluding latency.
  • Put in place and maintained a Tech Lead community of practice within the company
  • Implemented Continuous Integration w/ one-click deploys & rollbacks with the help of the systems operations team
• April 2012 - April 2013

  Seedbox Tech, Senior web dev

  As a Senior Dev, I had to maintain a high-traffic ad network, both in the backend and frontend, along with my teammates. This meant making changes in a complex data pipeline that computed payouts to partners, with daily sales in ads surpassing 30k$ per day at its peak. I also had to take part in Agile ceremonies and help the team design the best solution to our problems while meeting business expectations.

  Achievements

  • Halved the server costs of an ad network (over 100M impressions a day) by replacing portions of the pipeline in Go
  • Provide UI tools and analysis for advertisers, publishers, sales team and stakeholders
• June 2011 - April 2012

  Softicket, Sr. Dev

  As a senior dev, I maintained and improved a turnkey ticket sales solution. This meant taking care of the web app, the desktop POS, the pocket PC ticket scanner, and the RFID scanners. The application had a complex plugin system that allowed us to implement several interesting workflows.

  Achievements

  • Ticketing software under the .Net Framework (VB, C#, under ASP.NET)
  • I was sent to Benin, Africa to integrate the software with a governmental portuary project
  • Integration with the Beanstream payment gateway
• July 2009 - June 2011

  Denis CIMAF

  Denis CIMAF was a small business for which I worked as the single IT professional. This included development of internal tools that piggy-backed on Google's service, in effect integrating Google Spreadsheets with Google Maps for the benefit of the salesmen. It is also where I learned to administer cohabiting Linux, Windows, and Mac computers, with both Windows and Mac servers.

  • Google web service integration
  • ERP development
  • Sales quote generation software
  • Install OpenVPN between main office and Brazil office
  • System administration of a heterogenous Windows/Mac computer park w/ Mac OS X servers
• February 2009 - July 2009

  Eugénie Technology

  • PHP Web site
  • CRM/ERP developed under the .Net Framework using ASP.NET/C#
  • Automaton programmation using LADDER language
  • I got to stand inside a very dangerous machine while it was running. I survived! Yay!