• Gatineau, Quebec, Canada
• E: pyrolian@gmail.com

Work Experience

• Core Platform Developer - The Hotel Communication Network October 2008 - present

  The Hotel Communication Network is composed of a group of around 10 developers of many backgrounds and experiences. As a team, we built the next-generation hotel services platform. From building a embedded linux os to managing a multi-server/location architecture, our team learned to work and communicate with each other to deliver industry breaking changes.

  • CakePHP-based content management system.
  • Administration of several PostGreSQL database instances, from development to production.
  • Migration of a Debian platform to FreeBSD.
  • Embedded Linux operating system development and maintenance for the HCN Navigator, a touchscreen computer residing in hotel rooms. There is about 2500 units deployed at 2 hotels.
  • Communication Protocol and associated client/server written in python. Currently in use to administer all installed navigators.
  • Data dispersion for transmitting entities from the content management system to the different hotels based on their location.
  • Web-based hotel administration console. The system allows viewing the current state of the hotel (guests, Navigators, purchases, communications), managing all installed navigators and their associated room, including the purchase system.
  • Javascript-based ad delivery system for the navigator user interface. The system tracks views and user activity, reporting to a central server for analytics.
  • Navigator user interface client powered by python, webkit, gtk and d-bus.
  • PHP/Javascript touch-based user interface.
  • Apache analytics gathering and processing.
  • Technology evangelist.

• Junior Application Developer - LeadTrue Corporation June 2008 - September 2008

  LeadTrue consisted of a small team composed of 4 young enthusiasts leaded by a industry veteran. Together we accomplished a lot of proof of concepts.

  • Development of dynamic payload delivery system in Javascript/PHP
  • Integration with Google Maps / AdWords APIs
  • EC2 virtualization administration

• Computer Service Technician - Future Shop December 2003 - May 2008

  • Sale, maintenance, repair and support of computer systems.

Open Source Experience

• Google HTML5 Hackathon @ University of Ottawa, 2010. Our team created a multi-player PONG game using HTML5 and Node.js. https://github.com/masom/Google-Hackathon
• Maintainer of the Lithium PDF library: li3_pdf. Wraps the TCPDF library for use within the Lithium PHP framework (or php 5.3+). http://dev.lithify.me/li3_pdf
• Maintainer of li3_sitemap. A lightweight sitemap generator for the Lithium PHP framework. http://dev.lithify.me/li3_sitemap
• Core contributor to Hyberia Projektor, a successful Linux-based video playback scheduler. https://github.com/Hyberia/projektor
• Building a youtube clone using php and mencoder

Events & Volunteering

• G-Anime Operation Team, Gatineau, 2010
• G-Anime Technical Team, Gatineau, 2009
• Youth Cybercrime Conference participant, Royal Canadian Mounted Police College, 2004

Education

• DEC Computer Science Technology 2008
• Cegep de l'Outaouais, Gatineau, Quebec.
• Recipient of the Data Processing Institute bursary for excellence.
• The program focused on IT management with a strong emphasis on teamwork, planning and methodologies. During the 3 year program, we were introduced to COBOL, Java, C#, Visual Basic, PHP.
• As the target employer was the Canadian Revenue Agency, our technical formation emphasized on data processing and exchange, mostly between COBOL and Java.

Current Technologies

• Javascript
• PHP, 5.3+
• Python 2.6 and 3.1
• SQL (PostGreSQL)
• General shell scripting
• Git, Mercurial and Subversion
• C++ with Qt
• MongoDB
• Unix/Linux

The Rusty Zone

• UML
• Java and C#
• COBOL
• ASP.net
• Win32 development