Web application development lead and auditor for security and performance. Specialized in program-to-program communications, especially REST APIs, XML-RPC and SOAP since 1999, and earlier RPC-based systems over TCP/IP and other network stacks (1986-1994).
Lead support and training team of engineers for government networks (1989-1994)
Develop front-office/back office integration and lead UNIX (Solaris) support team for mass retailers (1994-1996) .
Created one of the very first e-commerce sites in France (1997), converted to Drupal in 2005.
Drupal CMS and other web technologies. XML applications PHP to .NET bridging, Web services, SOAP, XML-RPC, DCE RPC. Middleware: network programming (TCP/IP, UDP/IP), user-space system administration data. Architecting software and managing development engineers teams.
Development lead on large web sites based on the Drupal CMS, including:
2015-2018: Drupal 8 coach for France Télévisions teams
2016-2018: Full-stack developer on Meteor.JS for the cross-site back-office at LeFigaro.fr
2017 : Drupal 8 architect and coach for Rue du Commerce
2016 : Drupal 8 architect and coach for Carrefour.fr
2015 : Drupal 8 architect and lead dev for at 70-site digital factory at ARS.sante.fr
2014 : Drupal lead on a mixed Drupal/Java extranet project at PMU.fr
2013: Architect and development lead of the new cross-site commenting system at LeFigaro.fr, on MongoDB
2012: Architect and infrastructure development lead on a very large multilingual Drupal 7 Commerce project in the luxury business, via Publicis Dialog.
2011: Architect on the new social network services at LeFigaro.fr on MongoDB. Data migration of the new FranceInfo.fr
2010 : Development lead on Madame.LeFigaro.fr. Varnish driver extensions and custom integration.
2009/2010 : Architecture of and development lead for the first generation social network and freemium content at LeFigaro, including mobile support.
Expert consultant on Drupal performance and development best practices, including :
2014 : Performance, quality and security audits: Secours Populaire Français, Groupe Revue Fiduciaire, Alcatel-Lucent
2013 : Performance coaching on Drupal Commons for Linagora.fr
2012-2013: Resident Drupal expert in the "SWAT" (cross-project experts) team at France Télévisions
2012: Performance, quality and security audits: Public Sénat, Atout France
2010/2011 : Performance and security audits: FranceCulture.com, FranceInter.com, France.FR, FranceSoir.fr, Petzl.com. Code and database tuning.
More genenerally, consulting engineer and teacher on web, system, and storage technologies :
Drupal 4.6 to 8.0, inclusive
MongoDB, REDIS, MySQL, PHP,
AIX, Netware, Solaris (until 2008)
ASP / ADO / IIS (until 2006)
GroupWise and Exchange messaging suites, Border Manager and Watchguard firewalls, Paradox databases (until 2008)