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Managed the stream processing team, which built and supported a platform based on Apache Flink, providing connectivity to and integration with Shopify systems and processes. Owned the product roadmap.* Onboarded dozens of teams processing millions of events per second.* Built-up a team that managed infrastructure creation, optimization, and support.* Coordinated the deprecation of all legacy platforms, slashing support costs.

Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Lead on the above streaming processing team. Chaired data technical leadership group.* Designed and implemented Flink connectors and utilities such as a Bigtable connector and a batching operator.* Championed a project to deploy Flink apps with Shopify tooling, improving DevEx.* Reliability engineering on legacy Spark Streaming jobs. Managed product end of life and supported migrating users.

Ottawa, Canada Area

Managing teams of data scientists, data engineers, support engineers and UI contractors to develop and operate Blue Planet’s Network Health Predictor and its Analytics Platform.- Reduced code, maintenance and operational costs by more than 80%- Led a revision of the deployment model to avoid difficulties integrating with the customer's systems.- Supporting team members in their functional programming progression (Scala).- Restructured the data science compute, storage, and… Show more Managing teams of data scientists, data engineers, support engineers and UI contractors to develop and operate Blue Planet’s Network Health Predictor and its Analytics Platform.- Reduced code, maintenance and operational costs by more than 80%- Led a revision of the deployment model to avoid difficulties integrating with the customer's systems.- Supporting team members in their functional programming progression (Scala).- Restructured the data science compute, storage, and backup infrastructure. Show less

Ottawa, Canada Area

Enabled Fortune 500 clients to design and build scalable streaming applications, with streamlined builds, containerized deployments, and industry leading practices. - Consistently brought customers to successful adoption by enabling all involved teams. - Led the team of consultants on larger engagements.- Led a community of practice around the Lightbend Fast Data Platform, which is based on Spark, Akka, and Kafka and helps to operationalize analytics and machine learning.-… Show more Enabled Fortune 500 clients to design and build scalable streaming applications, with streamlined builds, containerized deployments, and industry leading practices. - Consistently brought customers to successful adoption by enabling all involved teams. - Led the team of consultants on larger engagements.- Led a community of practice around the Lightbend Fast Data Platform, which is based on Spark, Akka, and Kafka and helps to operationalize analytics and machine learning.- Certified instructors and delivered on-site training internationally as Master Trainer for Scala and Akka Streams Show less

Gatineau-Ottawa

Consulting for clients using Scala and the Lightbend platform, from various industries including telecom, data analytics and genomics.- Leading small teams of developers- Architecture and project proposals- Research and conference presentations- Mentorship and private trainingsFocus on purely functional and type safe implementations for maximal reliability.Paper published in "Proceedings of the 6th ACM SIGPLAN Symposium on Scala": Referential integrity… Show more Consulting for clients using Scala and the Lightbend platform, from various industries including telecom, data analytics and genomics.- Leading small teams of developers- Architecture and project proposals- Research and conference presentations- Mentorship and private trainingsFocus on purely functional and type safe implementations for maximal reliability.Paper published in "Proceedings of the 6th ACM SIGPLAN Symposium on Scala": Referential integrity with Scala types Show less

Ottawa, Canada Area

Machine learning research and development. Reinforcement learning as a service.- Developed methods to accelerate learning in RL and automate feature selection.- Researched distributed systems to automate resiliency, synchronization and garbage collection.- Created Perdure, an open-source library for the robust persistence of acyclic immutable data.- Developed a robust web platform, in Haskell, that emphasizes correctness.

Montréal, Canada

Led the platform department, creating and supporting the tools and libraries used by all games developed in Montreal’s mobile game studio. Oversaw all major technical decisions within the studio. Coordinated with other EA studios on technology consolidation.- Built a platform that transparently supported hundreds of mobile devices, translating C++ to Java as required by operating systems.- Built a proprietary bytecode optimizer, providing a competitive edge to our games on space… Show more Led the platform department, creating and supporting the tools and libraries used by all games developed in Montreal’s mobile game studio. Oversaw all major technical decisions within the studio. Coordinated with other EA studios on technology consolidation.- Built a platform that transparently supported hundreds of mobile devices, translating C++ to Java as required by operating systems.- Built a proprietary bytecode optimizer, providing a competitive edge to our games on space constrained devices.- Created a distributed build system and dependency manager to make for repeatable builds and efficient development. Show less

Montréal, Canada

Architected and led the implementation of one of the first 3D game development platforms. Board member. Negotiated sales, partnerships and financing deals, in collaboration with co-founders. - Studio co-produced PC games built on its 3D platform, including an arcade racing game.- Sold to Jamdat Mobile

Master Of Business Administration - Mba

Msc, Computer Science

AI and formal methods thesis: "The Situation Calculus and Hehner's Programming Theory: Harmonization Through Reification"

B. Sc., Informatique (Computer Science)