Julien Kirsch Email & Phone Number

Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Principal System Engineer for Irdeto Keystone Access Control- DevOps- SecDevOps- Mobile and Cloud Solution and System Architecture- System's Operation and Production Owner

Ottawa, Canada Area

Principal DevOps Engineer for the Anti Piracy group at Irdeto

Ottawa, Canada Area

Ottawa, Canada Area

Manager of Software Development for the Identity Platform R&D team at BlackBerry, responsible for the BlackBerry Identity and Enterprise Identity by BlackBerry (an enterprise grade cloud identity platform) products.- Promoted to a people manager role as part of the BlackBerry Identity team. Managed up to 6 developers from junior to senior level.- Lead Scrum development team of up to 10 developers and testers.- Develop project plans, track project execution, manage changes, develop and execute implementation plans.- OSS compliance prime for the Enterprise Identity product.- Lead a Scrum team in the architecture and design of BB10 and Android device products for BlackBerry Identity.- Lead a Scrum team in the architecture and design of the on premise Virtual Machine based component for BlackBerry's Enterprise Identity Cloud service.- Lead a Scrum team in the architecture and design of the Enterprise Identity Cloud Service to enable Saas service integration for enterprises. - Development and testing improvements using VMs, Vagrant and Docker containers for end-to-end automation.- Scrum process implementation (Requirements/epics/story breakdowns, story sizing and planning, daily stand-up, sprint retro and planning.Skills acquired:- Virtual Machine for VMware, VirtualBox, AWS, Digital Ocean, GCS, ...- VM build and provisioning using packer.io, vagrant, chef. Virtual Appliance architecture and implementation- Linux system integration (Ubuntu, CentOS)- Docker containerization.- Investigation of clustering of containerized services with CoreOS, Mesos and Kubernetes.- Saas service integration using SAML, multi-factor authentication, cloud identity, Oauth2, OpenId Connect- Cloud service development with nodeJS.- PKI infrastructure for BlackBerry Identity certificate generation.- Continuous integration.- Web service development using NodeJS, ExpressJS, Bootstrap, AngularJS and javascript.- Full stack web development, MVC architecture.

Ottawa, Canada Area

Team and Technical Lead for the BlackBerry Picture Password and Verizon Single Sign-on products for BB10. Team Lead Designer for the Identity & Authentication Development and Proof of Concept team focused on mobile identity, biometrics, behavioural authentication and the mobile cloud.- Reporting to Director of Engineering, responsible for leading teams on customer and innovative projects.- Architected, designed, developed and delivered the Verizon's Single Sign On solution for BB10. Met with Verizon to determine their needs, gather and document requirements, communicate throughout the development project with Verizon to manage expectations, resolve issues and provide project status. Coordination with the Verizon Operations team for product qualification and deployment in production. Lead a multi site development and test team (Halifax, Sunrise, Chicago).- Architected, designed, developed and delivered the Picture Password device lock product for BB10 to provide strong gesture based device unlock. Lead a multi-site development and test team (Halifax, Seattle). Collaboration with the Malmo (Sweden) based team to research and develop the UI concepts for this product.- Designed and developed PoCs for behavioural authentication (facial and voice recognition, location based authentication, gesture and keyboard typing patterns recognition, ...) as well as a policy engine for device access authorization. Lead a development and research team in the analysis of contextual and behavioural authentication mechanism.- Coordinate with other internal departments including Quality Insurance, Products Operation, System Security, Cellular Networking and Mobile Architecture,Skills acquired:- Mobile multi-factor authentication and behavioural authentication- Fido mobile authentication framework- Google service authentication, Android authentication framework, Android AOSP integration and development.

Ottawa, Canada Area

Software development for the Blackberry Identity R&D team at BlackBerry, responsible for the BlackBerry Identity Platform and Service product with over 140 million users.- Development of features for the BlackBerry Identity product backend server and on device daemon for BB10 and Playbook- Integration of clients for the BlackBerry Identity product on BB10 and Playbook device (BBM, secure storage, Password Keeper, BBProtect and more)Skills acquired:- C, C++ and Core Java development, java web services, QT and Cascades UI development- Mobile development for BlackBerry and Android devices- Mobile security, mobile authentication and identity- RESTful services, MVC architecture patterns for web service development, SOA- Web security, OWASP- OAuth1/2, JSON Web Token (JWT)

Ottawa, Canada Area

Software and System development for the OmniAccess 8550 Web Service Gateway venture project for the Enterprise Security Solution Group.Software and System development for the Alcatel-Lucent 5529 Inventory Data Management and 5529 OSS Alarm Dispatcher products as part of the Element Manager product line. Lead a multi site development and test team (Ottawa, India, Vietnam).Software, System and Firmware development for the Alcatel-Lucent ATM and IP DSLAM (7302 ISAM, 7330 FTTN and 7300 ASAM), 7470 Multi-service platform and 7350 Access platform. - Multisite development experience including Antwerp, Shanghai, Bangalore and Ottawa.- Configuration Management Prime for the DSL group in Ottawa- Hardware-Software integration (RTOS integration, Device driver development and integration) for FTTx and xDSL products- ATM and IP stack development; ATM to Ethernet bridging and routing functionality developmentSkills acquired: - C, C++ and Java/JEE development.- Object Oriented Architecture and design patterns.- Real-time system architecture and development. Protocol stack development.- Hardware-Software integration, Embedded OS integration, Linux and Unix development and system integration.- Device driver implementation for embedded systems and Linux.- MPC 8250 ATM Processor, Intel IXP40xx Network Processor development.- SOAP, JSON, XML.- JBOSS, Tomcat servers.- HTTP/HTTPS protocols.- PKI infrastructure.- Configuration management (clearcase, git, build management, ...)- Compilation and build infrastructure for cross-platform and embedded systems.- Scrum & Agile methodologies- Test Driven Development, Behaviour Driven Development

Rennes Area, France

Software and System development for the SDSL, ADSL and VDSL product line on the Newbridge Network ATM Multiswitch platform 7470 and 7350. Multisite development team (France and Canada). Software development for the Newbridge Network Video over DSL solution. Skills acquired:- C and C++ development, Ruby on Rails (self taught), PHP (self taught)- RTOS (pSos, VxWorks)- Embedded software development- Firmware development- IP and ATM protocols

Master’S Degree, Computer Engineering And Telecommunication

Supelec is a French graduate school of engineering awarding the equivalent of a master's degree and Ph.D opportunities. Supelec is one.

Bachelor’S Degree, Computer Engineering And Telecommunication