Experience
I now use my computer experience and my knowledges to help companies to improve their software development process as a whole. As an example, I can explain you how you should manage your software developers, what tools you should use to handle your developments (subversion, cvs, mailing lists, etc) or what kind of design patterns you could use during the pure development part of your projects. I do also work with rails, AJAX, and all the buzz around it.
I can also help you on very specific projects which require performance. As an example, what architecture you should use to handle high traffic website (more than a million hits per day), or what database architecture you could build to handle 200 millions rows. I can also help you if you want to release your software under free software license and want to build a community around it.
I like challenge, cutting-edge technology, new frameworks or languages, to lead developers, and I will adapt myself to new working methods.
During 2004, I followed courses to validate my experience with an official European diploma: a Master degree of computer science at IFSIC, a Graduate Institute for Computer Science and Telecommunication. In the past and more than once, I had management-level position. I have also been, for few years, President and webmaster of the French association LinuxFr, and I was the President of the student association during my Master degree.
Please contact me if my profile interests you or if you need more informations.
Various computer projects
I have been involved in many computer related projects, either as a creator, as a contributor, or as an employee. This is a non exhaustive list of few I liked to be a part of.
- lightstalkers: A forum for photojournalists (probably the only one) developed with ruby on rails. I help his founder/developer providing a subversion access, a trac and mailing lists. I also contribute, whenever I have a little time, for improving performance, reduce the number of SQL calls and make the code cleaner.
- LinuxFr: This is a French community Linux website I've created around 1999. It is now of of the largest French website, and ranked 1st at the LinuxJournal reader's choice awards, in front of the fairly known Slashdot. It does about 40 millions hits per months but keeps growing everytime I look at the statistics.
- SomeList: This is a now dead list archive. It used to store thousands of mails from mailing-list of different open source projects.
- Templeet: another language focused on web development. It uses PHP for the interpreter and can install itself pretty much everywhere. It focuses on speed and performance as much as productivity. I don't contribute anymore and there were about 20,000 lines of code when I left. LinuxFr uses it.
- UUCPssh: a mail hosting which officially exists since 2002. The next version I am working on will focus on antispam solutions, UUCP over SSH hosting and Transparent MX. There are about 500,000 mails per months going through it, and there might be commercial support one day. If you need a secure working email hosting, you just found it.
- daCode: This is a CMS like software I created years ago, focusing on clean code, modularity and speed (cache layers, object oriented development). This is a dead project now, but I've heard some people still use it. It was about 27,000 lines of code, and LinuxFr used that at the beginning.
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tribunelibre: A website like
LinuxFr but where users can talk about anything they want. Articles goes through
an incubateur where they can get help from other users, get typos fixed,
and get ideas too. Then the article have to be submited to vote. If it gets enough
votes from the audience, it is published. If not, it goes back to the user.
Sadly, the website doesn't have much success. Probably because I didn't put enough effort in the design, and because the way it works force users to submit long articles, which noone really wants to do theses days (at least not on someone else website, they keep that articles for their blog). - DBee is a French company part of Groupe Image. It is specialized in video and audio streaming on private and public networks and works with 50% of the companies on the French Stock Exchange. I had the IT Manager position for 3 years.
- Wengo is a French company part of 9Telecom. It is specialized in VoIP (Voice over IP) the way Skype does. I worked on a specific mission for 4 months and rewrote their SIP VoIP desktop software with ideal conception in mind. I used UML modeling, MVC compliant models, design patterns, and the implementation was using C#. You can see more about that project here (code and documents).
- Worldmedia was a French company focusing about content websites. It used to handle the official website of Festival de Cannes for years. It also created the FashionLive website (for Haute Couture and Pret-a-porter fashion shows from Paris, London, New York and Milan). The company no longer exists, but used to be one of the most famous French Internet companie before 2000. I occupied the IT Manager position for 13 months.
- rDisk: a project that offers you remote online storage. It's very easy to setup (less than a minute) and will work with any browser and operating system.
- feedback20: an upcoming project by a French company. I worked as an IT consultant on the software development of the web architecture from December 2005 to March 2006.
My other life
For the last few years, I've been in few countries (Argentina, Cambodia, Korea,
Myanmar, etc) doing photography and meeting people. I'm pretty much into
photojournalism (check my photography)
and I hope to get published by magazines one day.
I've been hosted in Korean families (quiet a big experience for a French,
believe me), I've stayed months in a typical American family in a small town of
Michigan, I've been in buses you wouldn't want to get in, and I've taken the
worst train you can imagine (yeah, worth that thoses ones you are thinking of).
But afterall it has always been wonderful experiences, and I look forward to
continue.
Whenever I got a little time, I :
- - lightly help a French association focused on social photography
- - visit lightstalkers
- - add links to my delicious
- - read the aphotoaday list
- - browse ebay, browse LinuxFr
- - Rethink the world, rethink my life, make new projects
Within 2006, I'll probably go to India (around March), Nepal, Korea, Sri Lanka. (I went to India for 2 months, riding an Enfield motorcycle, i also went to Belarus).
Within 2007, I'll probably go on travel for few months again. I have Korea, Transiberian train and Nepal in mind. Come back on January 2008 to verify.