JavaScript Developer @ SFEIR december 2015 - now
I work as a consultant engineer and data protection advisor for SFEIR's clients in Paris (seven of them so far).
Profile
Highly and widely skilled language geek, software designer and humanist.
Experience
Web Developer @ TenTwentyFour.lu may - september 2015
As the company's JavaScript guru, I developed the node.js front-end server and designed the client for a security application (also some back-end system administration), and contributed to another Web app (mostly on localization, cross-domain authentication and UI).
Translator on Wasteland 2 may - october 2014
I contributed a few thousand strings and my linguistic insight as well as technical know-how to the crowdsourced French localization of InXile's RPG.
JavaScript Expert @ University of Göteborg 2012 – now
I was employed to create a client-side JavaScript implementation of SCXML, which eventually became my thesis project. The work involved thousands of lines of code, many contributions and discussions with the W3C working group, and the publication of two papers at Swedish and international conferences.
Many roles @ Kernel Panic Systems 2003 – 2006
KPS is my engineering school’s tech and open source club. I officially joined the team during Summer 2004 after some informal involvement. I was responsible for the KPS website, developing a user-friendly Web app to manage a nation-wide humanitarian program, and overseeing the club’s free courses for students. I took part in making the club a legal entity and in most of its activities, from teaching to fixing computers and preparing large events.
Summer camp counselor @ Aventure Scientifique 2004 – 2005
With (mostly) French children and young teenagers, during three two-week-long summer camps, one of which took place in England, with geeky themes and activities.
Admin @ La Gazette du Sorcier 2003 – 2009(-ish)
At first because of my Latin and Web-related skills, I joined the best and one of the most visited French-speaking websites on Harry Potter, around the height of the series’ popularity. I ended up doing some reporting, community management, translation, and other magical tasks.
Education
Master in Language Technology @ University of Göteborg, Sweden 2011–2014
I successfully defended my thesis on client-side multimodal user interface design in June 2013.
Bachelor's in Linguistics and Computer Science @ Université Paris-Sorbonne, France 2008–2011
I was a tutor in formal logic (a position created on my initiative) and in the C2i-1 courses (C2i is the French implementation of a European concept for a not-too-basic computer usage and knowledge certification aimed at the general population). I also sang in the scandinavian department's Nordic choir and maintained its internal website.
Software and Electronics engineering (interrupted) @ ESIEA, France 2003–2005
Although an engineering school seemed an obvious choice at the time, in the end I invested most of my time in the extracurricular activities of KPS (see above) and left.
Skills
linguistic
I am a native French speaker and regularly mistaken for a native English speaker. I write both flawlessly, as well as JavaScript. I can understand some Swedish and German and speak a little Swedish, and I haven't completely forgotten Latin, ancient Greek, Croatian, medieval Occitan or Elvish.
Not only do I write well and concisely, I can produce high quality analysis and translations from English to French, and research precise grammatical phenomena or nuances of meaning when the need — or curiosity — arises.
software
I am an expert on client-side Web technology (HTML, CSS, JavaScript and many APIs). I have substantial experience with Node.js, nginx, Apache and PHP. I'm also quite familiar with Backbone/Marionette, Angular.js, MongoDB, Python, and somewhat with Perl, JAVA, C, AppleScript, Mathematica and UNIX shell scripting. I am comfortable with automated testing and deployment, source control as well as real-time collaboration tools.
I have been using mostly Macs since 1998, though of course I can survive on other platforms. I've been an amateur user of Photoshop and the GIMP for a long time, and of Logic, GarageBand, Final Cut, and other Apple multimedia apps. I can use any office application, but I prefer writing HTML directly (like with this CV) and using specialized apps.
Through my career I have developed a keen interest in user interface and more generally user experience — from traditional Web design to multimodal interfaces and embodied agents — and in localization issues.
other
On occasion I can shoot pictures and movies and record music with semi-professional competence. I master roleplaying games and write my own scenarios. I read a lot, mostly fantasy and science-fiction, and play a lot of computer games, mostly strategy and RPGs but also puzzles and physics games.
I am curious, with broad scientific and general knowledge. I learned some karate and judo, I skate pretty well on snow and better on wheels, and I can solve the Rubik's Cube.