Thomas Flament

Lead software engineer in a small, focused R&D team, delivering an OTT video Web CDN product deployed across 20+ companies worldwide (from small operators to big, state-owned telcos), bringing ~10M$+ yearly gross revenue. I joined as an experienced software engineer, was promoted as technical leader / senior software engineer of the team after a year, and granted the opportunity to be acting engineering manager of the team for 2 years. As a senior software engineer (July 2020 - now): * Developing and maintaining a complex, multi-language stack (C/Go/Python/Kubernetes/...) in an Agile, English-speaking environment * Exploring and integrating complex components (OpenSSL, Redis, HAproxy, support of the AWS cloud, ...) * Designing & writing from scratch a distributed Go HTTPS 500Gb/s+ load testing tool * Exploring 200Gb/s+ HTTPS performance (eBPF, Kernel optimizations, TLS ciphers, Kernel TLS, TLS offloading) * Addressing developer pain points: dramatically reducing CI times, automating releases, rewriting test suite, ... As a technical leader (July 2021 - now): * Actively shaping product strategy jointly with product owner: refining strategy, macro-costing epics, suggesting personal ideas/vision * Leading epic-to-story refinement meetings by challenging actual needs, proposing technical solutions, encouraging team involvement * Delivering in-depth product trainings (e.g. on-site, 2 days, 8 developers from 3 countries) * Tackling most challenging production issues (investigation, quick mitigation, short-term workarounds, long-term bugfixes; facing clients) As an Engineering manager (acting, 2022-2023, managing ~5 developers): * Discussing team staff needs and open job positions * Conducting 10+ interviews (both "corporate" and "tech" parts) * Handling newcomer onboarding (in-person and remote trainings about technologies, project detailed architecture)

CoSMo Software is an IT startup working on WebRTC: the leading open standard in real-time videoconferencing. - Analyzed multiple technical RFCs, in-progress specification drafts and technical books about real-time audio/video protocols, codecs, techniques, and low-latency network transports - Designed and implemented QUIC support (in-progress network protocol) in Google’s WebRTC implementation (C++)

VIA is a student association that provides Internet access and services to over 1,500 students on the CentraleSupélec campus. - Maintained and added new features to VIA internal administration software, a large 10-year-old Java codebase - Gave a summary lecture on the school IT course to the 500 first-year students - Maintained VIA physical servers and virtual machines

Lyrebird is a multicultural YC startup developing cutting-edge speech synthesis technologies and pioneering voice cloning. - Designed and developed from scratch a microservices architecture supporting real-time high-demand speech synthesis, in Go and Python, including multiple backends and asynchronous workers using Pub/Sub, Redis, and MongoDB - Created a fast CI pipeline and infrastructure using GitLab CI, Docker containers and Kubernetes on Google Cloud Platform

ENEDIS is the French leader in electricty distribution, for French households and companies. - Created and developed an algorithm to dynamically compute energy consumption and production rates - Algorithm implementation in Java with heavy SQL database processing, used Lean, Agile, and Scrum methodologies - Worked in a multicultural team of 5 developers

- Developed and mantained a Google Chrome extension to ease apartment and house search - Implementation in modern Javascript (ES2017) with the Trello API, using the Scrum, Lean, and Agile methodologies - Worked with 4 selected students in a multicultural team - Working prototype published in the Chrome Web Store

Deepening my knowledge of C programming with the help of a computer scientist specialized in the formal proof of C programs at the laboratory behind Coq and CAML (in collaboration with INRIA).