I've been programming at a professional level almost on a daily basis with many technologies for the last 5 decades (C++ for 3 decades), including when managing 400 engineers that I hand picked in 8 different sites across the world.I am especially interested in productivity, abstraction, performance, collective intelligence and tough challenges.I've worked exclusively for technology companies, equally interested in engineering and business functions, in entrepreneurial situations or business optimization, startups and large organizations.Among my key achievements, I count the conception and delivery of Amadeus' transactional infrastructure and application framework, from bare iron and up. Thanks to this work, Amadeus is now the largest Enterprise Application in the world and delivers currently about two-thirds as many transactions per second as Google Search (100,000 transactions per second). IBM thought it was impossible, without mainframes, and with complex SaaS multitenant business applications and service levels. After an audit commissioned by Amadeus Board, IBM confirmed it had been done by the team that I had hired, put together and managed.The applications my team and I have built from scratch generate now billions of dollars of revenue per year.Quite a few engineers I hired work now for prestigious Tech Companies such as Google, Meta or Databricks.I have been sitting at University of Arizona MIS board from 2014 to 2017.Head of the French ISO C++ standard group between '96 and '01, organized the '97 international ISO C++ meeting in Sophia Antipolis, France, which yielded the the first C++ standard: C++98.Regular attendee at JavaOne.Member of ACM and IEEE for 20 years.Sitting at OpenTravel Board through 2011 and 2012.I attended the 2018 Draper Prize ceremony in DC on February 20th, 2018. Bjarne Stroustrup, inventor of C++ received the award.Five patents bear my name.I recommend reading:http://metaspex.blogspot.com/2014/04/delegating-or-taking-control-of.htmlwhich gives an interesting perspective on Amadeus' move from an airline spin-off "user culture" to a technology company culture, and its successful fight against its competitor, Sabre.Have a look also at:http://www.mentofacturing.com/mentofacturing.pdfI received a few of Don Knuth's legendary checks (http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/boss.html).I am a proud American citizen.
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