Backend cloud (AWS) development for an asset management system for the VFX industry using early node.js.

Software development/research work to evaluate the feasibility of extending and optimizing an in-house virtual machine (aka managed runtime environment) for large-scale SIMD computations.Research and technology evaluation work on SIMD computation modeling and LLVM Just-in-time optimization and execution engine.

Software development work on a compact/portable virtual machine specialized for animation graph evaluation in games. Xplatform work on Windows, PS3 (SPURS), XBox360 and Durango.Participated at the research and development of the virtual machine computational model.Design & development of a persistent heap, allowing the capture of the state of the managed environment for playback and debugging.

- Technical leadership position on the Avid Interplay Media Indexer product;- Delivered and supported Avid Interplay Media Indexer 1.0 to 2.1, a distributed media asset indexing system part of the Avid Interplay family of products for broadcast television industry.- On-site and off-site engineering support with high-profile players from the television industry such as NBC, CBC, Fox News, BBC, CBS, France24 and others;- Agile development/continuous integration with distributed team (midwest, east coast, germany);- Performance and scalability work in Java and C++, post-mortem failures analysis, overtime system degradation analysis and diagnosis (filesystem drivers, Java virtual machine behavior, subtle system leaks spanning over weeks, etc.)- Provided training classes to technical support team.

Software Developer within the professional video editing and finishing group, which is responsibile for the development on non-linear video editing systems Avid DS and Avid Media Composer. Media interop, media quality management and remote processing work on Avid DS and Avid Media Composer.

- Lead developer on low-level packet capturing, HTTP/HTTPS traffic analyzer;- Optimization work to improve real-time data capturing, data structures & algorithms, memory fragmentation and usage patterns analysis;- System programming on RedHat Linux with GNU toolchain - gcc/gdb/valgrind/cachegrind- Acquired a very good understanding of low-level TCP/IP state machine, HTTP protocol and SSL technology.

Team contributor to the development of Microsoft shared source CLI (codenamed Rotor);Implemented a complete version of the Winsock2 APIs for FreeBSD as part of the SSCLI Platform Abstraction Layer;Contributor on the WINE project as part of software development contracts with Groove Networks (now Microsoft) and Corel;Worked on client/server development contracts with other clients such as ObjectWorld (now ADTRAN) and GraphOn.

Security software development of RSA PKCS#11 cryptographic token interfaces for Gemalto GPK4K, GPK8K smart cards and IBM SecureChip embedded cryptographic processor;Experience with IBM systems integration qualification procedures - library shipped with all IBM 300CL and IBM300PL systems, targeted for business and banking customers.

Design and implementation of an eCommerce transaction server (platform selection/customization and server implementation) in a 3 people start-up. Server was running on Java 1.2 hosted on customized FreeBSD 2.2.something, with servlets - emerging tech at the time, RMI and JDBC, a bit of perl and a early version of OpenSSL, back then called ssleay.