Jean-Francois 'Jeff' Merlet, Ph.D. Email & Phone Number

Elmwood Park, Nj, Us

- Consumer-grade and business-grade intermittently connected beverage (tea, coffee) appliances. - Architected the entire distributed system, data model, adaptive cloud REST API, and the low-level binary APIs over BLE.- Awarded a patent on an innovative method for infusing tea and other beverages.- Managed the remote mobile application and firmware teams. - Coded the cloud services, including the IAM system, data collection, Javascript cloud console, media delivery and OTA firmware update service. - Generated 300 pages of Markdown-based architecture and API documents. - Technologies: Go, Kubernetes, Docker, Google Cloud, REST, NoSQL, IAM, BLE, RFID/NFC, Flutter.

San Francisco, California, Us

- Commercial smokeless & ventless permanently connected coffee bean roaster appliance.- Architected the entire distributed system, data model, device telemetry data collection, bidirectional connectivity, and all the APIs, including low-level binary protocols.- Coded the cloud services, and the appliance multi-channel communication processor.- Lead the software team (cloud, firmware, web).- Technologies: Go, Kubernetes, Docker, Google Cloud, REST, NoSQL, Web Socket, MessagePack, Samsung Artik, STM32F4xx.

Mountain View, California, Us

- Consumer-grade intermittently connected appliance startup.- Architected the entire distributed system, adaptive cloud REST API including recipe calibration, and the appliance local APIs. - Coded the cloud services, analytics data streaming pipeline, and the appliance high-level processor.- Lead the software team (cloud, web, mobile, firmware).- Technologies: Go, Google Cloud, REST, NoSQL, BLE, RFID/NFC, Intel Edison, Yocto, STM32F4xx.

Eindhoven, North Brabant, Nl

- Consumer-grade action camera with connected sensors, computational imaging including video-editing and contextual location services.- Lead the overall architecture including the cloud micro-services and 3rd party developer offering (REST API, SDKs, data mining infrastructure).- Carried out machine learning studies and iOS prototypes for reverse geo-location and outdoors activity prediction.- Defined a universal sensor (raw and derived) data interchange format.- Technologies: IoT, BLE, Android, iOS, Objective-C, Swift, AWS ecosystem, Cloud micro-services, REST, Netty.

Eindhoven, North Brabant, Nl

- New generation of a Mobile Backend as a Service (MBaaS).- Architected and lead the platform development effort bringing over 30% reductions in operations costs, and 10x scalability increase.- Designed an on-demand lightweight data synchronization mechanism on top of the MBaaS REST API.- Technologies: AWS ecosystem, Cloud micro-services, REST, Java, Oracle, MongoDB, MessagePack, Push Notification.

Eindhoven, North Brabant, Nl

- Assumed the technical leadership of 100+ global engineering workforce for OVI Sync, a cloud-based data synchronization service supporting over 250 mobile device variants.- Architected the platform evolution to support a 1000x data increase, to reach 3+ billion user records, by introducing pub/sub messaging, smarter device variant plugin, database and performance tuning.- Architected and led the development of a custom mobile data synchronization service for AT&T supporting over 50 different mobile device variants, and over 1 billion user data records.- Architected and coordinated the mobile client solution being implemented by 12 global OEMs.- Technologies: Java, Oracle RAC, OMA DS / DM / CP.

Espoo, Southern Finland, Fi

- Lead delegate for Nokia in the OMA DS (Data Synchronization), OMA DM (Device Management) and OMA CP (Client Provisioning) groups.- Contributed a major addition to the OMA DS standard on advanced mobile email capabilities.

Espoo, Southern Finland, Fi

- Managed and built up a global team of senior architects working on Intellisync Suite, the world's second-ranked enterprise mobile solution for email, data synchronization and device management.- Architected new cluster deployment, database schema and sharding bringing 3x performance increase, and 30% reduction in hosting costs.

Espoo, Southern Finland, Fi

- Managed and co-built a 50+ global engineering workforce working on Intellisync SyncML Server and Instant Messaging Server, and their associated clients.- Architected and led the SyncML server 15x performance increases.- Architected and led the development of a custom SyncML Server based service for NTT DoCoMo, growing from 0 to nearly 1 billion user data records in 1 year with a 99.999% uptime. - Reduced by 25% the number of bugs by introducing continuous builds, unit and integration testing.- Technologies: Java, Oracle, OMA DS / CP / DM, XMPP, Windows, Symbian, J2ME, Blackberry.

- Managed and built up a development team working on a media sharing solution offering media synchronization, transcoding and sharing.- Innovated a hybrid P2P and client/server architecture approach based on XMPP and REST services.- Architected and implemented 95% of the J2EE server with a 90% JUnit coverage.

- Managed and built up a development team working on 3 servers: Sync-it (SyncML synchronization), Mind-it (web change detection and notification), and Browse-it (proxy-based mobile web browser). - Designed a unified and consolidated Oracle database schema for the 3 servers.

- Provided technical leadership to Fortune 500 US customers deploying a document life cycle solution.

Ramonville-Sainte Agne, Fr

- Led and designed the European Space Agency [ESA] International Space Station [ISS] financial data warehouse project based on Oracle and SAP's Business Objects.

- Designed and implemented Oracle schemas and procedures of space and launchers related projects.

Espoo, Southern Finland, Fi

- Carried out research on object oriented design methods, database modeling, hypermedia and intelligent interface.

Ph.D., Computer Science

Master Of Science (Ms), Computer Science

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Computer Science