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Montréal, Québec, Canada

As a strategic leader, I've driven high-impact initiatives that improved project quality, increased revenue, and modernized our tech stack. With a focus on both technology and collaboration, I've led key transitions, optimized performance and mentored teams, shaping a future-ready organization.Accomplishments:- Led the effort toward splitting up our main revenue-generating application into a clear API and UIs, enabling us to create more UIs, and open our services to new… Show more As a strategic leader, I've driven high-impact initiatives that improved project quality, increased revenue, and modernized our tech stack. With a focus on both technology and collaboration, I've led key transitions, optimized performance and mentored teams, shaping a future-ready organization.Accomplishments:- Led the effort toward splitting up our main revenue-generating application into a clear API and UIs, enabling us to create more UIs, and open our services to new markets.- Led the architecture for the legacy application transition towards independent UI modules and micro-frontend targets.- Led the definition of a next-gen technological stack for our new UI application aimed at creating new revenue streams.- Led the efforts to improve the technological stack and codebase of our Samsung Ads component library.- Led the efforts to implement Application Performance Metrics for our UI application, to collect and exploit key data to tackle issues and latencies before our users get impacted.- Led the improvements of the legacy monolithic application while its modularization was underway, to enable faster and safer deployments through monorepo technologies.- Led the UI architecture improvements to reduce access latency through CDNs and edge-serving. Show less

Montréal, Québec, Canada

As a founding member of the Galaxie team, a newly minted technical entity central to Samsung Ads' global structure, I addressed key challenges in ownership and collaboration by standardizing processes and implementations, such as maintaining a component library. This role significantly enhanced my mentoring and communication skills as I worked with teams worldwide, driving broader initiatives and ensuring alignment across the organization.Accomplishments:- Created and led a new… Show more As a founding member of the Galaxie team, a newly minted technical entity central to Samsung Ads' global structure, I addressed key challenges in ownership and collaboration by standardizing processes and implementations, such as maintaining a component library. This role significantly enhanced my mentoring and communication skills as I worked with teams worldwide, driving broader initiatives and ensuring alignment across the organization.Accomplishments:- Created and led a new entity to answer the company's gaps in leading transversal UI projects. Becoming the reference for all our sites (USA, CA, POL, IN, KR).- Created and led major and global initiatives to tackle tech debt and quality issues.- Created, owned and maintained transversal projects such as CLIs and Samsung's components library.- Created the architecture behind the next major step for our biggest revenue-generating application. Show less

Montréal, Québec, Canada

Following a company restructuring, I was promoted to the UI Core Team. Our mission is to drive key improvements in scalability, architecture, and developer experience, while also providing production support on a global scale (USA, CA, IN, POL).Accomplishments:- Created standards for the new company's team format, Core teams, that are being applied globally.- Onboarded global teams and ensured proper standards and quality through training and reviews.- Improved the state… Show more Following a company restructuring, I was promoted to the UI Core Team. Our mission is to drive key improvements in scalability, architecture, and developer experience, while also providing production support on a global scale (USA, CA, IN, POL).Accomplishments:- Created standards for the new company's team format, Core teams, that are being applied globally.- Onboarded global teams and ensured proper standards and quality through training and reviews.- Improved the state management of the main revenue-generating component of the application, translating to less time spent per order per user. Show less

Montréal, Québec, Canada

I joined Samsung Ads as a senior React developer, quickly taking a leadership and mentoring role in my front-end team. I'm proud of how we quickly grew into an effective and collaborative unit.Accomplishments:- Joined a newly created team and quickly took a leading stance.- Set development standards for the team.- Set architecture standards for the engineering teams.

Montréal, Canada

I joined Genetec's Stratocast team, working on surveillance solutions for our partners. During my mission, I focused on becoming a multi-domain leader, modernizing the tech stack, promoting front-end culture, and improving inter-team communication while tackling tech debt through Domain Driven Design.Accomplishments:- Spearheaded DDD to remove tech debt and improve communication between Product and Engineering.- Terraform champion.- Mobile development champion.- Set… Show more I joined Genetec's Stratocast team, working on surveillance solutions for our partners. During my mission, I focused on becoming a multi-domain leader, modernizing the tech stack, promoting front-end culture, and improving inter-team communication while tackling tech debt through Domain Driven Design.Accomplishments:- Spearheaded DDD to remove tech debt and improve communication between Product and Engineering.- Terraform champion.- Mobile development champion.- Set standards for infrastructure as code.- Set standards for improved development releases.- Set standards for modern testing practices. Show less

Région De Bruxelles, Belgique

As a consultant at BNP, I helped define their DevOps strategy and supported the adoption of agile practices.Accomplishments:- Studied the current stack in use for releases and proposed modern improvements.- Transitioned pilot teams to dockerized releases.- Transitioned pilot teams to use modern CIs.

Région De Bruxelles, Belgique

I'm now in charge of scaling the application and the team, taking on new responsibilities to enhance our deliveries and the project's stability. These lead me to oversee code quality and reviews, coordinate between products, testers and developers, managing production, deployments, and the platform.Accomplishments:- Scaled the team with new hires.- Set the company's standards for code quality and code reviews.- Managed, as a central point, the expectations and release plans… Show more I'm now in charge of scaling the application and the team, taking on new responsibilities to enhance our deliveries and the project's stability. These lead me to oversee code quality and reviews, coordinate between products, testers and developers, managing production, deployments, and the platform.Accomplishments:- Scaled the team with new hires.- Set the company's standards for code quality and code reviews.- Managed, as a central point, the expectations and release plans between product and engineering. Show less

Région De Bruxelles, Belgique

As a full-time Bsit employee, I continued to face daily fast-paced challenges and expand my skills.Accomplishments:- I transferred to a full-time position and the main revenue-generating project.- Further improved the team's project management skills.- Brought standardization around the development processes.- Modernized the platform's Cordova (ionic framework) core.- Instrumented the platform's Heroku hosting to improve both debugging and reducing costs.

Région De Bruxelles, Belgique

As a full-stack engineer at Bsit, I worked on the main application's support dashboard to improve my knowledge of the company's technological stack as a first step toward collaborating on the main revenue-generating iOS and Android applications.Accomplishments:- Adapted to the company's technological stack in a record time.- Brought innovation and raised the team's standards on project management and communication.

Région De Bruxelles, Belgique

As a Front-End Engineering Lead for Buy Way, I tackled the challenge of redesigning their prepaid card management website during a critical period, improving standards and practices at the same time. I quickly became an advocate for better Front-End culture and a chair representing my team at the company's transversal commission.Accomplishments:- Worked under pressure as the project needed to be delivered soon after I joined.- Realigned completely the project' styling.-… Show more As a Front-End Engineering Lead for Buy Way, I tackled the challenge of redesigning their prepaid card management website during a critical period, improving standards and practices at the same time. I quickly became an advocate for better Front-End culture and a chair representing my team at the company's transversal commission.Accomplishments:- Worked under pressure as the project needed to be delivered soon after I joined.- Realigned completely the project' styling.- Created a clear structure for style and markup management.- Drove upscaling of the team's skill in front-end development.- Held a seat at the company's transversal commission. Show less

France

Development of various tools and project for EDF. Mainly using PHP / JAVA /SQL. Two notables projects would be IQ Produire, a tool to make security reporting about the whole ecosystem of a said EDF IT department, and a tool to compare two servers physically and logically side by side, to allow swift replications or backup servers for specific applications.

Barcelone, Catalogne, Espagne

Six months project at the Computer Vision Center at Barcelona. The project consisted on making the front-end for a XML Oracle DB. Multiple features like creating XML, searching and editing existing ones in the DB. Display of XML on a map using their geographic coordinates tag. Extensive use of Bootstrap, Leaflet, PHP, JS and CSS.

France

Diverses tâches dans le groupe de maintenance des automatismes, projet solo d’automatisation de la régulation de la ligne de stockage de l’eau déminéralisée (circuit de refroidissement secondaire). Etude des coûts et la faisabilité d’une nouvelle solution, présentation des solutions possibles puis réalisation du prototype fonctionnel de la solution retenue.

Informatique Industrielle (Ingénieur)

Activities and Societies: Programmation, management, projets d'études. Divers projets sur des périodes courtes en plus des cours.

Conception Et Réalisation De Systèmes Automatiques (Bts Crsa)

De nombreuses compétences dans le domaine de la mécanique et de l'automatisation. Réalisation d'un projet industriel (de la conception.