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Redmond, Washington, Us

Our team oversees all aspects of the development cycle for Azure SQL DB: source control, builds, continuous integration, private validation, tooling, and building a pipeline to take code changes from initial checkin to production while maintaining a high bar for validation.

Redmond, Washington, Us

Our team of 5 engineers manages the Azure SQL DB footprint, comprised of several products (SQL Database, Azure Database for PostgreSQL, Azure Database for MySQL, SQL Data Warehouse, SQL Managed Instances).

Redmond, Washington, Us

Lead a team of 8 people at its largest handling the lower level infrastructure that deploys the SQL Database service. The team focused its efforts on improving the reliability and performance of deployments to tighten the checkin-to-production loop (TTP) from weeks to days (hours for a hotfix). We also added several layers of safety to dramatically reduce the impact of bad payloads, both in terms of scope and in terms of time to mitigation (TTM). The team acts as a knowledgeable resource for the rest of the group in terms of how the service comes together from all the components and microservices that form it.

Redmond, Washington, Us

Managed a team of 7 engineers covering all aspects of source control, build, continuous integration and source code hygiene for the Database Systems group. Oversaw a shift to a new source control system (P4 to TFS) and landed the migration to a new build system that was started before I took the team over. Managed the relationship with the partner team in charge of the low-level build and test infrastructure to ensure effective communication on both sides.

Redmond, Washington, Us

Joined the SQL Server, then SQL Azure team and worked on various aspects of the stack: node-level failure handling, underlying database management infrastructure, cluster onboarding, integration and management of source code across staging branches. In this role I gained expertise in databases and cloud technologies through feature design and implementation, and I refined my product and release management skills by driving the delivery of large improvements for my teams.

New York, Ny, Us

As a technical lead in the Front Office Toolkit IT team, I established best practices to decrease our shipping latency from months to days, introduced continuous integration to our processes using Convergence and created a new spreadsheet testing framework in C# which reduced our checkin validation from days to minutes with increased reliability. I also mentored then managed one of the junior members of the team.

Redmond, Washington, Us

Main developer for the backend features for Microsoft Surface (v1). The position was an open-ended assignment to transform Windows Vista Business Premium into a kiosk-friendly operating system to facilitate administrative tasks while never allowing the immersive Surface experience to be disrupted by inopportune UI. The deliverable was a suite of group policies, state machine controllers and applications (e.g. to monitor UI on screen).

Redmond, Washington, Us

Worked on Excel 2003 (Excel XML feature), Excel 2007 and Excel Services 2007 (PivotTables). This position was one of technical growth within one of the strongest and most profitable engineering teams in the world and established strong technical principles that I have applied throughout my career.

Bachelor Of Engineering, Major In Computer Engineering, Minor In Management

Baccalauréat, Sciences, Spécialisation Mathématiques