Career Profile

Self-taught Software Engineer by sheer passion and hard, dedicated work. I am always eager to learn new paradigms that help me design better products enhancing interactions. Free software advocate, Python charmer, Emacs user, Mutt lover.

Experiences

Software Engineer (Part-time)

2019 - now
Code & Scale, Antananarivo (Madagascar)

  • Responsible for algorithm design and advanced research on web services and AI
  • Leading web and AI projects

Chief Information Officer

2018 - now
Acipenser, Antananarivo (Madagascar)

In charge of software development, helping the sturgeon farm into its digitization process.
Redesigning the information system of the company to ease the use of data in forecasts, marketing and sales. Leading the development team in the creation of better web UI/UX

Lead Developer

2017 - 2018
Gulfsat-Blueline, Antananarivo (Madagascar)

Developed and customized software for diverse needs. Successfully oriented the skills of the developers team through a renewed development workflow, easing projects on-boarding and management, reducing by half, the time to delivery we had so far.

Research & Development engineer

2010 - 2017
Gulfsat-Blueline, Antananarivo (Madagascar)

Worked a lot on managing the R&D team, responsible for pre-production projects and designing new solutions to solve issues or enhance existing products.

  • Solved new services integration hassle by designing an API cluster interfacing the vast majority of internal resources
  • Tackled the issue of fuel consumption of company's vehicles fleet by proposing and implementing a GPS tracking solution, hence allowing a better efficiency during interventions at client's premises
  • Helped increasing the ARPU on digital TV product by designing a multimedia cluster for streaming pre-encoded movies on nation-wide digital TV network: resulted in mass adoption of the product

Software Developer

2010 - 2010
Xone Technologies, Dakar (Senegal)

Intern in charge of designing an exchange point for mobile banking services in Senegal

  • Re-implemented previous core model in Python
  • Helped design a simple API around which connectors for standard mobile banking services could be written

Personal projects

dvbbox - A simple tool to schedule and stream TS files via DVB-IP.
supervision - Backhauling IP cameras data to a local server
simplechat - A minimal chat server with 2 interfaces: websockets and telnet.

Skills & Proficiency

Python

Flask

Django

Java

Go

Emacs LISP

Javascript & jQuery