About

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• Senior Technical Consultant (Lead Front-End), CGI Inc.

  May, 2017 - Present

  At CGI, I work as a Technical Lead as part of the Global Technology Operations - Software Development Team. My role is to analyze and contribute to the development of a Cloud Management Platform named Unify360 at the User Interface level (e.g. Web, Email, Dashboard…), focussing on the aspects related to UI such as Internationalization (e.g. translation), Localization (e.g. Date, Number formatting) from how to read data from services, to assembling view patterns. Unify360 is composed by many “micro-services” where each component has a specific tasks. For example; Authentication, Session validation, Forms, Rendering Views, etc. Services can be written in Perl, PHP, .Net Core, ASP.Net/IIS, or Go. From time to time, I also contribute to packaging and continuous-delivery systems.

  • Design and implement an HTML partial Microservice with PHP 7.2, Slim framework, Mustache PECL extension for a new section of Unify360 portal;

  • Research and Technical Requirements Analysis for modernizing Unify360 UI layer. Made comparison between React, Angular, Vue.js and different UI Component Libraries such as Google Material Design, Element UI, Quasar;

  • Implement prototype for a modern Unify360 Front-End using Vue.js, Nuxt.js, TypeScript, GraphQL, Koa.js and planned how to migrate all views into new platform effectively replacing code written in Perl and PHP 5.3, and also replacing HTML partial Microservice;

  • Lead the team that work and coach for writing code with tests, making self-contained and re-usable packages

• Delivery Engineering Architect (remote), Colloquial / Betastream

  Jan, 2016 - May, 20171 year 4 months

  At Colloquial, my role was to introduce and coach the team Continuous Delivery and Code release, and deployment system. I was part of a geographically distributed Web Development and IT team ("Betastream") working on projects for Colloquial and other partner projects. My responsibilities were to review, plan, and build a next-generation infrastructure and deployment system for the project production pipeline.

  • Released a Cloud Orchestration solution using Salt Stack, running on Amazon AWS, Google Cloud Platform and Microsoft Azure, where we can manage automatically Web Applications, deployment levels, build steps and dependencies consistently;

  • Introduced HashiCorp Vagrant workflow to automatically manage Web Developer’s PHP setup using VirtualBox and Canonical Ubuntu Linux 16.04 LTS. By doing so, every developer got the same Web Server setup as in production;

  • Introduced automated packaging for every WordPress projects, by leveraging Composer’s archive feature. The automated build process would first pull all dependencies, run code-quality linters, and if successful, create a Zip archive. By merging on master on Bitbucket would generate an archive, and the continuous-delivery system make all web server nodes to download the archive, extract its contents in a folder. Deploying a release would be changing the "live" symbolic to the newly extracted package;

  • Introduced advanced Varnish caching with Fastly. Created HashiCorp Vagrant workspace network (e.g. one Web Server VM, one Database server, one Varnish VM) to allow working on Varnish VCL caching scripts.

• Delivery Engineering Architect, CAE

  Mar, 2016 - Jun, 20163 months

  At CAE, my role was to introduce and coach the team Continuous Delivery and Code release, and deployment system. I was working on-site as a part-time contract and been asked to analyze and document for recommending an Open-Source real-time monitoring solution. During that period, I compared Prometheus, Heka, Ganglia, Grafana, ElasticSearch Kibana, and other TimeSeries aggregation and visualization systems. The ideal system had to take into account the air-tight networking policies which included corporate TLS certificate, and deployment targets would often be inaccessible to the Internet.

  • Introduced a method to maintain network of Virtual Machines with HashiCorp Vagrant leveraging VirtualBox private networking

  • Created a "poor man" configuration management using Bash 4 as a way to avoid using text files.

• Subject Matter Expert Compatibility Data Project (remote), Mozilla

  Sep, 2015 - Feb, 20165 months

  At Mozilla, my role was to provide an oversight of the development and participate in software architecture discussions as a subject matter expert on the Mozilla Developer Network Compatibility Data project. The Compatibility Data are what feeds developer.mozilla.org documentation pages telling developers if the feature is supported in a given Web Browser. My involvement was around communicating with various stakeholders about the requirements and features for the system.

  • Created a client-side DataTable rendering system with Vanilla JavaScript

  • Prototyped a file-based Compatibility data storage

• Developer Operations Engineer (i.e. "DevOps"), W3C/MIT

  Aug, 2013 - Aug, 20152 years

  At W3C, my role was to maintain stability, improve features, strengthen the infrastructure of the site, and act as a technical liaison with Open-source communities. The WebPlatform Docs project was meant to become an independent Web Developer documentation site maintained by an international community of contributors, sponsored by Adobe, Apple, DreamHost, Fastly, Facebook, Google, Intel, Mozilla, Microsoft, Nokia, and Opera.

  • Converted content and history from MediaWiki into Static site generators and Git (2015)

  • Improved Infrastructure deployment code so that any service could be rebuilt systematically (2015)

  • Implemented a self-healing monitoring (2015)

  • Designed and Implemented Single Sign-On solution using OAuth2 (2014)

  • Designed and built a Web Browser feature compatibility table system for documentation pages (2014)

  • Migrated the infrastructure to different providers along with Operating-System upgrades (2013, 2015)

• Web Developer, Ericsson

  Feb, 2012 - Jun, 20131 year 4 months

  The goal of the project at Ericsson was to create a server on demand provision portal managing cloud computing clusters hosted in data centers geographically dispersed. My role was to architect, build and lead a Web-based virtualization provisioning portal. A key feature I worked on was to allow users to initiate VMs from any data centers, on any cloud provider platforms.

• Web Developer, Co-Founder, Evocatio Solutions technologiques Inc.

  Jan, 2010 - Feb, 20122 years 1 month

  As a Web Developer and Co-Founder, my role was to lead and architect all Web Development work related to the FrontEnd stack. I would be in touch with Graphic Designers and Project Managers to create Valid HTML/CSS markup that reflects the designs, and to work on all Web Browsers of the moment. My work would take Adobe Photoshop and PDFs document and create HTML/CSS Static style guides (minimal JavaScript, no backend) to create CSS pattern libraries. As a Co-Founder, I had the authority to validate and review code quality when using HTML/CSS patterns generated by the Web Back-end Stack (Symfony 1, Symfony 2, Zend Framework, ASP.NET).

  • Participated in a major Web site rewrite for UDA.ca from .NET into PHP with Symfony1.x, responsible of two search-engine modules and HTML/CSS patterns libraries (2010-2012)

  • Created complex e-mail delivery systems to handle bounces at the server level and participated in the creation of a Web-based frontend (2011)

  • Created an early ”Offline first” HTML5 news reader for iPad (2010)

  • Participated in building and maintaining a major public-facing Web application that had been deployed in many cities around the globe (2010-2012)

• Web Developer, Groupe Informatique TechSolCom Inc.

  Oct, 2006 - Aug, 20092 years 10 months

  My role was to maintain the company corporate image on the web, maintain their Web site, and participate in projects run internally as a Web developer.

  • Contributed to many projects as Front-End Developer

  • Participated in maintaining company internal network, testing DataPower blade, Virtualized servers on bare metal, and web hosting infrastructure

  • Built a monitoring service using the SNMP protocol, centralized syslog server, and configured a Nagios monitoring service (2009)

  • Participated in making many Web applications as a Front-End developer including an inventory Web Application and a Continuous Delivery system

• Web Developer, Câble Axion Digitel

  Oct, 2005 - Nov, 20061 year 1 month

  My role was to rewrite the corporate website, maintain internal applications and answer to level-2 support calls from subscribers.

• Web Developer, President, INEXIS Solution web Inc.

  Feb, 2002 - Nov, 20064 years 9 months

  INEXIS Solution web Inc., was a one-man web development service provider firm I founded to serve graphic design agencies in the region of the Eastern Townships. Services typically included creating HTML/CSS based on Mock-ups made using Adobe Photoshop/Illustrator by graphic designers were making, creating e-mail templates, and managing hosting services.

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