Direr Laurent

Some previous clients: * Python training for INRA biostatisticians (Jan 2016). * Web development at Gorgias (3-4 months, summer 2016 as they launched their beta version). * Web and ops development at [skillcorner](http://skillcorner.com/) to get a first product into production (Nov-March 2017).

Ondorse is a software as a service company helping compliance, operations and tech teams run best in class onboarding, risk and fraud management. - I helped develop the product from a no-code prototype to first customers running in production. - I created the tech interview process and conducted interviews, hired 5 people to grow the team to 6 developers. - Tried to foster a culture of tech curiosity (bugs can be interesting!) and pragmatic decision-making (if we can't explain clearly why we need something, we probably don't). Techs: FastAPI, PostgreSQL, ReactJS, Kubernetes.

Free Ligue 1 is a mobile app that lets you enjoy the football games with live clips of the best actions. I worked on the API for the mobile (iOS, Android) and Freebox applications. The expectation was that I would produce efficient code (high load during a game) that could be taken over and maintained easily by other developers. * Set up the project alone, then was joined by 2 developers. * Developed a Django + PostgreSQL api from scratch, transitioning from a legacy Scala API (ensuring backwards compatibility). * Worked closely with mobile apps for mobile-specific features: Notifications for the games you subscribed to (Firebase Cloud Messaging), deep links (app links/universal links), in-app subscriptions. Techs: Django, PostgreSQL, openapi, ansible, nginx.

Proof of concept to add a real-time update system to the Partoo web application to manage your business' online reviews. Towards the end of my stay I also audited the codebase and proposed changes to improve the development workflow. Tech: websockets setup with AWS Websockets API Gateway, events emitted by a Pyramid/Celery application, eventually displayed in a ReactJS app.

OqeeTV is a new way to experience television combining VOD, replays, recorded programs and live TV (TV app on Android/iOS/Freebox). I joined the team of 3 just as they got started, and was one of 2 people working on the backend. * Integrated data from various providers (catalog of movies with associated offers as VOD/replay), adding them to the database in a way that lets us identify a movie across providers. * Built a backoffice tool to manage program data eventually displayed to users. Used for instance by the design team to upload pictures in various formats. * Worked on the API used by the different apps. The focus was on performance (planning to handle hundreds of thousands of people accessing the application at the same time) and maintainability of the API together with the different clients using it (android applications, web clients, etc). API in Django/PostgreSQL.

I spent 3 months at the recurse center, a self-directed retreat to become a better programmer. * Published two blog posts about docker deployment for Python-based web apps. * Worked on writing a LLVM frontend for C in Python (github) * Wrote a shakespeare bot (text generation) using deep learning, took the fastai classes, took (half) an OS course... Most importantly I met amazing people and programmers.

Helped Skillcorner ship their first product: a real-time visualization of a football game powered by their AI algorithms. * Setup best practices (tests, CI, code reviews) * Fullstack development: Django, Postgres, angular2 * Automated deployment of compute instances (on-demand, launch for each game): docker, nvidia-docker, ansible

Writing specifications for a student management software integrated on the three Passerelles Numeriques sites in Philippines, Cambodia and Vietnam. Discussing with the different teams to take into account the specificities of each site and department.