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Alexandre Joseph

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Engineer student in IT

About

Bio

Student in IT passionate about algorithmic and software development with object-oriented languages and frameworks. Fan of Agile methodology, unit tests and other continuous integration tools. Like open-source software and open standards.

Specialties

Development and software architecture, REST, Web Services, Cloud Computing, Agility (Scrum, XP), Test Driven Development (TDD), Continuous Integration and Release

Professional experiences

Software Engineer, CNRS LAL

Paris, France · jun 2011 – august 2011 (3 months)

Development of the persistent storage component for the StratusLab project. Integration of the component into the existing distribution. Use of Agile methods and continuous integration.

Junior Software Developer, SixSq

Geneva, Switzerland · juin 2010 – aout 2010 (3 months)

Development of the cloud configurator and installator as well as the user commands for the StratusLab project. Use of Agile methods and continuous integration.

Junior Software Developer, CNRS IBCP

Lyon, France · jun 2009 – jun 2010 (1 year)

Deployment of two private cloud computing systems on the existing infrastructure. Creation of benchmark tools to measure virtualization impact on distributed software for the HIPCAL project. Development of Web-Services based on cloud using BioXSD.

Professional projects

StratusLab
StratusLab is an European project which is developing a complete, open-source cloud distribution that allows grid and non-grid resource centers to offer and to exploit an “Infrastructure as a Service” cloud.
BioXSD
BioXSD is an European project which defines exchange formats of basic bioinformatics types of data. BioXSD aims to serve as the canonical data model for bioinformatics Web services.
HIPCAL
HIPCAL is a French project which studies confined virtual cluster concept in particular bandwidth sharing and end to end network quality of service guarantees.

Technical skills

Programing & scripting

Python (Django, ZSI), Java (RESTlet, JAWS), C++ (Qt), C, PHP, JavaScript (JQuery), Bash

Structure & formating

HTML5, JSON, XML, XShema, XPath, XQuery, WSDL, CSS3, LaTeX, SQL

Operating system

GNU/Linux (ArchLinux, Debian, Red Hat), Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows

Database

PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQLite, ZooKeeper, CouchDB

Virtualization & cloud

KVM, Xen, libvirt, VirtualBox, OpenNebula, EC2, Eucalyptus, S3

SCM & BugTracker

Git, Mercurial, SVN, Redmine, JIRA, Trac

Education

EFREI – Engineer school

Paris · 2010 – 2014
  • Three months in a university in the USA.
  • Representation of the school during the Students Challenge 2011, a car rally for humanitarian purposes.
  • Organization of the "Campus-Day" 2010, a students-companies meeting.

SUPINFO – Expertise in IT

Lyon · 2008 – 2010
Cisco CCNA certification 1 to 4
Networking Basics, Routers & Routing Basics, Switching Basics & Intermediate, WAN Technologies.
GNU/Linux certification
Mandriva Certified User (MCU).

Additional informations

  • Fluent in English – Spanish basis.
  • Curious, like discover and learn new things – Attracted by modern art, architecture and design.
  • 21 yoFrench – Lives in Paris – Driving license.
  • Sports: Judo (8 years), Swimming (4 ans), Skateboard.