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Curious software developer with an interest in finance, big data, performance and scalability. I like to explore new programming languages and challenge myself. **Warning: I prefer to work with humans with a good sense of humor.Staff Software Engineer @ I lead the Platform Engineering team from the AppDirect Montreal office. My team is composed of an exotic...

Curious software developer with an interest in finance, big data, performance and scalability. I like to explore new programming languages and challenge myself. **Warning: I prefer to work with humans with a good sense of humor.Staff Software Engineer @ I lead the Platform Engineering team from the AppDirect Montreal office. My team is composed of an exotic mix of devops, software engineers and foosball all-stars. We also have a really high count of midi-chlorians. Join us! Here are some of the projects we are working on: - CI and deployment pipeline (Jenkins, Artifactory) - On-Demand environments (AWS, Terraform, Chef) - Container environment (Docker, Kubernetes) - Load and performance testing (Gatling) - Internal platform librairies and tools to improve the productivity of our dev and qa teams - Search infrastructure (Elasticsearch) From February 2015 to Present (11 months) Montreal, Canada AreaSenior Software Engineer @ From January 2014 to February 2015 (1 year 2 months) Montreal, Canada AreaSoftware Engineer - Fixed Income @ Built new systems for the fixed income group: • Started the renovation of our IPO platform, using Scala Play framework, Akka and AngularJS • Created a municipal bond pricing system • Built Electronic Communication Networks (ECN) gateways using FIX • Created a TRACE reporting system with MQs and CXF • Programmed a portfolio valuation engine running on a grid computing solution (IBM Platform Symphony) I also led 2 interns to build a Twitter-like system used by our team to receive notifications on various events: GIT/Perforce commits, Jenkins builds, Gerrit code reviews From July 2011 to January 2014 (2 years 7 months) Software Engineer - Content and Web Publishing Platforms @ • Built a web application based on Alfresco, used to publish content to MorganStanley.com • Refactored and improved the rendition engine generating various renditions (HTML, JSON, etc.) from XML content nodes. • Programmed an administration tool to browse and manage content nodes in a repository using Ext-Js and the Alfresco REST API. • Created Python scripts to migrate content from the old platform and bootstrap Alfresco instances. Java, Spring, Ext-Js, Python, Alfresco, FreeMarker, Linux, Perforce, Sybase, DB2, CouchDB From February 2009 to June 2011 (2 years 5 months) Software Developer - Vessel Analysis and Targeting System @ • Developed a web-based application used by the all the border officers in the different Canadian Ports to target incoming vessels. J2EE, JBoss, JQuery From April 2008 to August 2008 (5 months) Software Developer - IMS Messaging @ • Developed a provisioning tool for the messaging system. • Created JUnit and TTCN tests for the system and analyzed code coverage. • Worked with the Ericsson R&D Center in Hungary and Sweden with the development of a new Eclipse plug-in to program TTCN test cases. Java, Ant, JUnit, TTCN, IMS, SIP From August 2007 to December 2007 (5 months) Software Developer - Transcontinental Medias @ • Built an application used to manage the Canadian distribution of Publisacs (location based coupons, deals and flyers) via a transactional Web site. Java J2EE, Weblogic, Struts From August 2006 to December 2006 (5 months) Software Developer - CMMI Certification @ • Programmed a system used to persist metrics related to various software development projects. • Using this dataset, I created an engine to improve the estimation of future proposals. From January 2006 to April 2006 (4 months) Computer Support Intern @ • Technical support (Software + infrastructure) • Repaired, configured, installed and connected workstations on the network. From September 2002 to August 2003 (1 year) Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.), Computer Engineering @ Université de Sherbrooke From 2004 to 2008 Science @ Sherbrooke College From 2003 to 2004 Tech., Computer science Technology (Co-op) @ Shawinigan College From 2000 to 2003 Pierre-Alexandre Lacerte is skilled in: Java, JavaScript, Spring, Python, Linux, ExtJS, Git, Scala, CXF, Messaging Systems, Ext JS, Messaging, C#, Ant, Hibernate