Julien SIMON's Email Addresses & Phone Numbers

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Hacker. Headbanger. Harley rider. Hunter. Next talk : "A real-life account of moving 100% to a public cloud", Velocity, Amsterdam, October 2015Technical Evangelist @ The Force is awakening. Stay tuned :) From October 2015 to Present (1 month) Paris Area, FranceChief Technology Officer @ With 65 million members worldwide, Viadeo (www.viadeo.com) is one of the leading figures in professional social networking. In charge of Software Engineering (web & mobile), Architecture, Infrastructure and Security. Managing 70 people in Paris and San Francisco. Technical environment: full stack web development (node.js, Java), mobile apps (iOS, Android), data & machine learning (MySQL, Elastic Search, Spark, Hadoop, HBase, Redshift), Amazon Web Services, infrastructure. From October 2014 to October 2015 (1 year 1 month) ParisChief Technology Officer, Software @ www.aldebaran.com In charge of all things Software and Infrastructure at Aldebaran. Managed 130+ people. Against all odds, successfully launched Pepper in June 2014 : http://edition.cnn.com/2014/06/06/world/asia/japan-robot-softbank/ And then... it all went down the drain : http://www.rudebaguette.com/2014/12/15/aldebarans-trouble/ http://www.rudebaguette.com/2015/02/24/well-called-aldebaran-dead-hail-softbank-pepper/ Technical environment: C++, Python, Linux, Amazon Web Services, ESB, SSO, security From February 2014 to October 2014 (9 months) ParisVice President, Engineering @ www.criteo.com In charge of an online advertising SaaS platform used by over 3000 e-commerce companies in over 30 countries. Managed 60+ people. - Publisher platforms (10/2010-01/2013): software development of buy-side applications, most notably Real-Time Bidding (Google, Yahoo, Appnexus plus 15 others) and Facebook Ad Exchange. Over 20 billion incoming HTTP requests daily - Scalability & High Performance Computing: software development and operation of technical services used by all Criteo projects: service-oriented web application framework, caching, databases, log management & processing (6PB Hadoop cluster), BI, etc. Constant focus on web performance and on data storage/processing for real-time and analytics needs - Infrastructure & Production: 7 datacenters located in Europe, US and Japan (6000 devices). All hardware deployed and managed by Criteo (servers, load balancers, LAN/WAN networking equipement, storage, etc). 3 AS numbers, multiple 10Gbit IP links, multiple private links between datacenters. 24/7 operations (monitoring, on-duty) Technical environment: Microsoft software (C#, IIS, SQL Server, etc), Open Source software (Linux, C/C++, Java, nginx, MongoDB, Memcache/Couchbase, Cloudera Hadoop, Storm, Kafka, Nagios, Centreon, Graphite, etc), Hardware (commodity x64 servers, Cisco Nexus switches & routers, F5 and A10 load balancers, Isilon storage, etc) From October 2010 to January 2014 (3 years 4 months) ParisChief Technology Officer @ - In charge of a SaaS e-commerce platform (www.e-merchant.com), generating 2 billion euros of gross merchant value. Managed 150 people. * Pixmania (www.pixmania.com) : #1 B2C e-retailer in Europe (26 countries) * Pixmania Pro (www.pixmania-pro.com) : Pixmania B2B activities * Pixplace (pixplace.pixmania.com) : Pixmania marketplace * Bouygues Telecom (laboutique.bouyguestelecom.fr) : #3 MNO in France, #1 on the web * Currys (www.currys.co.uk), Dixons (www.dixons.co.uk), PC World (www.pcworld.co.uk) : the largest electrical retailers in the UK - Agile project management (Scrum), front office & back office software development, infrastructure, Business Intelligence, as well as QA & Tech Support (both built from scratch). - Ownership of the IT budget (people, OPEX, CAPEX : 15 million euros) & supplier management Technical environment : PHP, mySQL, Oracle, PL/SQL, Linux (600+ servers in 7 locations), NetApp (2 Petabytes total), dark fiber, MPLS, etc. From May 2009 to September 2010 (1 year 5 months) ParisVice President, Engineering @ www.digiplug.com In charge of Software & Infrastructure for a digital supply chain SaaS platform used by the music majors (Universal, Sony, Warner). Managed 50 people., - Scaled the technical team from 12 to 50 people, without any in-house HR for 18 months. - Deployed a code factory (continuous integration, code coverage, etc) supporting the Scrum methodology. - 3 hosting locations, 150+ servers, 400+ Tb. Built and deployed new technical infrastructure on 2 hosting locations: CAPEX > 2M€, direct negotiation with suppliers (Redhat, Dell, Isilon, Telecity, Oracle, etc). - Implemented a Disaster Recovery Plan (availability > 99.9%) - Implemented a ISO 27001-like Information Security Management System, with yearly external audits. Technical environment : Java/J2EE (Jboss, Tomcat, Spring, etc.), Oracle, clustered NAS storage (NetApp, Isilon), UNIX (Linux, Solaris), Windows Server 2003, Cisco, Juniper, Foundry, audio/video transcoding... and lots of Open Source. From March 2007 to April 2009 (2 years 2 months) ParisChief Technical Officer @ www.blueskypositioning.com As a consultant for a pre-funding startup working on the A-GPS SIM, the world’s first Assisted-GPS module for SIM cards : - Based on a first hardware prototype, wrote the software specification of the A-GPS SIM product. - Led technical discussions at management level and R&D level with suppliers (software, semiconductors, manufacturing) and partners (smartcard silicon vendors, smartcard manufacturers). - Attended high-level meetings with private & institutional VCs. Technical environment : GPS chipsets & software stacks, semi-conductors, manufacturing, SIM & smartcard standards From September 2006 to February 2007 (6 months) Director, R&D Mobile Communications @ www.oberthurcs.com 09/2003-09/2006 : - Led the development of all Telecom products (45 people in France + 25 in China and the Philippines) - Reorganized R&D teams to sustain a 60% yearly increase of delivered card volumes - Enforced ISO 9001:2000 methodology (yearly internal & external audits) - Delivered in 2003 the first implementation of the WIB 1.3 micro-browser to pass the SmartTrust certification - Delivered in 2004 the first USIM smartcard approved by the Vodafone Group, beating Gemplus and Axalto - Delivered in 2005 the first USIM smartcard approved by Cingular, beating Gemplus and Axalto - Traveled in Asia to perform a thorough technical due diligence of I'M Technologies (acquired by OCS in mid-2006) 01/2002-09/2003 : - Led an 8-people team in charge of custom SIM application development, mostly for European Mobile Network Operators : SFR, Orange, TIM, Telefonica, Vodafone UK, etc. - Enforced ISO 9001:1994 methodology (yearly internal & external audits) - Delivered a full implementation of the SmartTrust Wireless Internet Browser 1.2 application, the first to be certified by SmartTrust. - Delivered a full 2G SIM card to Vodafone UK, with RSA cryptography, lots of proprietary features and multiple JavaCard applications. - Delivered tens of custom applications at a rapid pace, enabling the standard product to meet specific customer requirements (extension of 2G/3G standards, proprietary features, additional cryptography, etc) Technical environment : embedded C, assembly, Java Card, 16/32-bit chips (Atmel, Infineon, ST Micro, Samsung, etc.), smartcard & telecom standards (ISO, ETSI, 3GPP), WAP, cryptography, ISO 9001. From January 2002 to September 2006 (4 years 9 months) Paris Area, FranceCo-founder and technical manager @ - Co-founded a consulting company specialized in object technologies for embedded systems. - Defined the strategy : missions, technologies, customers. - Hired 10 people in 12 months, achieving in 2001 a profitable turnover of 750K€. Missions led in person: - Oberthur Card Systems (1 year) : designed and implemented multiple JavaCard applications for the Identity & E-commerce markets (AuthentIC product line). Trained 50 people on Java & Java Card development. - SchlumbergerSema (6 months) : designed and implemented a Java Card secure filesystem for the Cyberflex smartcard, targeted at the Security market. Technical environment : C++, Java, embedded Java, JavaCard, UML From June 2000 to December 2001 (1 year 7 months) ParisEmbedded Software Engineer @ Within the ChorusOS group (real-time UNIX operating system with a microkernel architecture) : - Developed custom kernel features for a innovative set-top box (the BetaResearch d-box, millions of unit shipped). - Single-handedly integrated and validated the complete GNU C/C++ cross-development suite (4 hosts, 20+ targets), as part of the first release of ChorusOS officially supported by Sun. - Acting as last-level support within the Sun support organization, helped customers worldwide on all versions of Chorus and delivered many patches. Traveled on-site to investigate issues in detail. - Trained customers worldwide on application & device driver development : 15 on-site one-week classes at Sun Microsystems (USA & France), Lucent (Netherlands), Nokia (Finland), Tenovis (Germany), Nortel (Canada & USA). Technical environment : Intel, SPARC, PowerPC, C, C++, ChorusOS, UNIX, TCP/IP, SNMP, embedded Java. From June 1998 to May 2000 (2 years) ParisEmbedded Software Engineer @ - Designed and implemented a real-time communication layer running on a public-network PBX. - Successfully completed the V cycle, from specification to live testing. - Supported application developers by phone & e-mail (20 people in Germany & India). Technical environment: Motorola 68k, C, C++, Chorus real-time kernel, UNIX (Solaris), SNMP. From May 1997 to May 1998 (1 year 1 month) ParisPre-sales Engineer @ Provided technical expertise to the Sales/Marketing team on Concert Internet Plus (high-end Internet access for businesses). Presented the product to prospects (mostly ISPs), answered RFPs. Mission cut short by BT France / Cegetel merger. From February 1997 to May 1997 (4 months) ParisResearch Engineer @ 80% : contributed to a research projet at MASI Laboratory, Paris VI University (distributed system based on the Mach microkernel). Tech reports and publications available on Slideshare: http://fr.slideshare.net/JulienSIMON5 20% : taught undergraduate-level Computer Science classes at ISEP, EPITA & ETGL (Algorithms, C, C++, UNIX Kernel, Distributed Systems). Sep-Dec 1996 : translated into French a reference book on UNIX : « The Design and Implementation of 4.4BSD », published in France by International Thompson Publishing. From January 1994 to December 1996 (3 years) Paris Julien SIMON is skilled in: Linux, Software Development, Agile Methodologies, Unix, Getting The Job Done, Security, SaaS, Cloud Computing, Scalability, E-commerce, Datacentres, High Availability, Leadership, NoSQL, Thinking Outside The Box, Public Speaking, Product Development, MySQL, Java, Disaster Recovery, Executive Management, Open Source, Big Data, Amazon Web Services..., Data Center