Works with partners in the #fintech industry and with #game studios to offer the next generation of casual and educational games powered by financial data.

Uses my experience in the build-up of distributed software (AWS, Google Cloud, Azure) and in game development to support development teams defining architectures and implementing scalable solutions.

In its transition from a book publishing company, HMH is investing in digital solutions that help teachers delivering better curriculums and help students developing their skills. HMH expects to provide granular content to students for individualized learning paths, with meaningful feedback loops to teachers.In that context, I lead the definition of the new content production pipeline, taking into account HMH authors, publishing immutable content and metadata, delivering them to our Ed learning platform and to 3rd party ones. This new ecosystem leverages Web components, NodeJS (Typescript) + K8s for RESTful services, Postgres/RDS, CloudFront, and many other AWS services.I also developed pipelines to integrate content from legacy authoring platforms, and an archiving extension to complete the content lifecycle—using efficiently the S3 tiers instead of a database+NAS...

"Major Series of Putting" (MSOP) is a new brand in the sport and entertainment domains. Our first major event will be held in Las Vegas on March 2017 -- check msop.com.My role is to organize the development effort to support our teams (operations, marketing, and sales) in order to offer a wonderful experience to our players in the soon to be announced stadium. Along go other developments to build a mobile application, to provide services to golf facilities, and to integrate our solutions with other partners.

Project: Unannounced game releaseModeling the client-server interactions for Web and mobile applications, building a development environment for compiling the client Web resources (HTML/CSS/JavaScript) per platform/display size/language/player's connectivity/etc, building back-end services on the top of Node.js, implementing a CI environment to test automatically all variations of the application.The back-end services should handle 500k CCU, serving players in browsers and mobile apps, serving game clients on console and PC, serving admins for live operation monitoring, and the player community through a public REST API. The live environment involves a dynamically MongoDB cluster, a pod of Docker containers with Node.js, a memcached cluster, a replicated HAProxy gateway, and a third-party CDN.#Dojo #Polymer #PhoneGap#Node.js #WebSocket #Express #MongoDB #Redis#Grunt #Intern #OpenStack #CoreOS #Docker #Kubernetes

As the studio's strategy is focused on building branded games, with my partners, we develop game concepts and propose them to brand owners like: Hasbro, Disney, Paramount, Sony, EA, etc. The games follow the F2P model, they are casual games, targeted at a mass audience in the age range of 18-35.In preparation of the pitches to the brand owners, I developed prototypes for the Web on the top of the Google App Engine infrastructure. A part of this development is available in the open-source project https://github.com/domderrien/custom-portal.#Java #GAE #CSharp #Unity3D #iOS #Android #NetworkFaultTolerant

Projects: two unreleased games.Defining the client-server interactions, modelling a communication layer resilient to network errors, instrumenting the game for automatic testing.Communicating with:- the producers to deal with the technical limitations and to plan the features implementation- the third-party service providers (telemetry, marketing, purchase reporting, etc.)- the studio executives to report on the development progress

Project: Scrabble game in FacebookPlanning the migration from a Amazon Web Services technology stack to Google App Engine (GAE).Defining the Scrabble online store API and implementation to serve 1M+ daily users, accessing the game from iOS and Android devices and from the Facebook website.Implementing the store for the Facebook users (400k+ DAU) on GAE. Passed security reviews and heavy load tests.

In a Agile team, responsible of defining a truly RESTful API for a Java back-end built on top of Spring/Hibernate. Implementer of the back-end services and their Web user interfaces.

Responsibilities:- Define the architecture of the multi-channel communication engine of ASE- Define the public REST API- Build the user base and fine-tune the user experience- Contribute to pre-sales consulting and to the business decision-makingAchievements:- Setup of an AdWords campaign to capture part of the traffic generated by consumers looking for used cars in the Montreal area- Development of the ASE engine in Java (code & test line counts: 27k / 50k)- Development of the Web consoles (30k lines) and of an Android client (open-source on GitHub)- Adaptation of the Amazon FPS library for the Google App Engine environment (open-source on GitHub)Technologies:- J2EE: Google App Engine Java, JDO, OAuth/OpenID with dyuproject- Web: HTML5/CSS3/JavaScript with Dojo 1.5- Mobile: Android 1.6 & 2.2- Automation: Linux (Ubuntu) Ant, Python, XSL, Selenium2

As mentioned by my manager & CTO Paul Czarnik, in a eWeek interview [1], here are some criteria describing an Eagle: "smart, proficient technologist and prolific coder; not afraid to call themselves 'programmer'; works independently, collaboratively; accountable, flexible, ethical; assigned hard, technical problems; appraised on objectives achieved; consultant to other groups; high visibility, high-ROI projects; and won't work on things that aren't 'useful.'"Compuware has just adjusted its strategy to be more Agile. While having a chance to share/experiment my experience with the Agile methodology applied to software development, I'm going to use it to help on the different tools Compuware provides: Vantage, ChangePoint, etc. A really nice and motivating environment![1] http://www.eweek.com/index2.php?option=content&task=view&id=48075&pop=1&hide_ads=1&page=0&hide_js=1

RPM Olympia is a RIA using a lot of Dojo components (default ones for layouts, menus, trees, etc.) and customized ones (application switcher, application specific representation). The main goal RPM Olympia is to provide a lightweight access to the basic functionalities that 90% of users needs: edit time sheets, access documentation, manage scope elements.RPM has a very complex data model and its major client built with Delphi has its own business logic on the top of the database. Defining the Web application architecture in this environment is very challenging ;)In addition to my development assignment, I'm also part of the Architecture board which oversees coming requests for enhancements (RFEs) and review proposed architectures.

Key element in the design and the development of the Rich Web application for the Oracle Collaboration Suite -- see demo at: http://ocswebdemo.oracle.com.OCS provides back-end support for: Enterprise Directory, Mail, Calendar, Files, IM, Workflow, etc. The client offers control over Mail, Address Book, and Enterprise Directory.

Web administrative tool for the Calendar server of Oracle Collaboration Suite.

Set-top box UI development (Navigation, menu, EPG, PPV, etc.).