Experience

Ankama

• France
• Entertainment Providers
• 300 - 400 Employee

• Distributed Software Engineer

  • May 2015 - Present

  Technical direction, design and development of an instant messaging service. Direct reporting to Ankama CTO. Architecture: Distributed cluster to achieve scalability and resilience. Persistent bidirectional TCP connection with in house binary protocol. Technologies involved: Scala, Akka, Protobuf, Docker, Git, Gitlab & Gitlab CI, AWS ECS.

• Technical consultant

  • Jun 2013 - Present

  On call technical consulting for the CTO. Design choices, occasional development on various back-end softwares related to online video games, including DevOps considerations. Technologies involved: Scala, Sbt, Docker, AWS, Consul, Kubernetes, CI build systems.

• Internal Technology Engineer

  • Jun 2013 - May 2015

  On a 4 people team, Design and development of an in house Scala/Akka library. Offering various tooling to ease server development inside the Ankama ecosystem. Currently live with three 3 Ankama online products.

• Desktop Application Developer

  • Jan 2007 - 2011

  On a two people team, Design and development a content management application. Enabling production teams to create contents for MMORPGs. Sitting on top of a ProstgreSql database. Currently live and used daily by the two main MMORPG teams. Strengths: - Extensibility: teams can create custom UI tailored to various assets definition needs. - Auto update: teams are delivered whith the latest version ASAP. Technologies involved: Java, Eclipse RCP, team city. On a two people team, Design and development a content management application. Enabling production teams to create contents for MMORPGs. Sitting on top of a ProstgreSql database. Currently live and used daily by the two main MMORPG teams. Strengths: - Extensibility: teams can create custom UI tailored to various assets definition needs. - Auto update: teams are delivered whith the latest version ASAP. Technologies involved: Java, Eclipse RCP, team city.