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Jérémie Astori
Software engineer – Full-stack web developer
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Highlights

I am a web developer programming in Ruby, JavaScript, Scala, and working with Linux servers.
I develop, maintain, and contribute to free and open source projects such as The Lounge or chai-immutable.
I enjoy working in global, multicultural, and inclusive environments.
I always try and keep up by taking online courses, attending local meetups, hackathons, and talks.
I host myself on ARM-based servers that I manage with Ansible.
I climb, bike, code, take pictures, and cook in my free time.

Work experience

– Present

Software engineer

CloudHealth Technologies (USA)

Implementation of new and improved features such as an Ansible integration with our product and, as part of the web application team, many UX / UI enhancements and fixes.
Leading of several projects, most notably a long-time effort to upgrade our application stack.
Participation to internal hackathons with projects that included a GraphQL API and an app-wide quicksearch.
Strong focus on code quality, testing, and good practices. Constant support of other team members, tutoring of new hires, speaking at internal lightning talks.

  • Ruby
  • Ruby on Rails
  • CoffeeScript
  • Angular.js
  • Ansible

Webmaster

W3C / MIT (USA)

Publication of W3C specifications.
Deployment, maintenance, and support of new and legacy systems.
Development of an automated publication system for W3C specifications, exposed as an API, and using Node.js asynchronous capabilities.
Participation to an automated testing effort for the entire production infrastructure.

  • JavaScript
  • Node.js
  • PHP
  • Symfony
  • System administration
  • Testing

Software engineer in virtual reality

Reviatech (France)

Development of a library of custom UI components, used across projects and platforms.
3D modeling and construction of a 3D training simulator for chemical plant safety.
Real-time development of realistic and parametric lighting and shadow casting.
Research on tracking systems and development of a calibration tool using Kinect.
Internal and external documentations, maintenance of the company's website.

  • C++
  • Qt
  • JavaScript
  • 3D Studio Max
  • VRPN
  • OpenSceneGraph
  • OGRE
  • Git

Web development intern

Matt&George (UK)

Development of an open source web application for vsftpd server management
Improvement of the company’s corporate website
Set up of an automated UI testing solution for web applications
In charge of a challenging short-term client project

  • Ruby on Rails
  • ActionScript
  • PHP
  • Git
  • Selenium
  • Scrum
  • TDD
  • MVC

Education

Master’s degree in computer sciences

UTC (France)

2 years of fundamental studies (including scientific and technical fields, social sciences, and management) followed by 3 years of major studies in software engineering

French scientific baccalauréat

Lycée Montesquieu (France)

General high school degree with major in mathematics and engineering sciences (with honours)

Computer skills

Languages

Ruby, JavaScript (in the browser & Node.js), Scala, SQL (MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite), Python, PHP, C, C++, LATEX

Web development

Ruby on Rails, Express, Akka HTTP, Flask, Symfony, HTML & CSS (standards-compliant), static site generation (Pelican, Jekyll), WebSockets, jQuery, Angular, React

Concepts & Methods

Functional programming, object-oriented programming, testing & software quality (coverage, linting, CI), revision control (Git, GitHub), usability (accessibility, UX), API design (GraphQL)

System administration

Configuration management (Ansible), web server (Nginx, Apache), security (ufw, fail2ban, rkhunter), cloud services (AWS)

Graphics editing software

Photoshop, Lightroom, Illustrator, InDesign

VR & 3D computer graphics

VRPN, OGRE, OpenSceneGraph, 3DVIA Virtools, 3D Studio Max

Languages

English

Fluent, written and spoken

French

Native language

Personal & academic projects

– Present

The Lounge

The Lounge is a modern web IRC client designed for self-hosting. It runs responsively on all kinds of devices and servers, and lets users come back to their session without losing history.
This is a community effort I started when forking from Shout, which has attracted thousands of users since then.

  • JavaScript
  • Node.js
  • IRC
  • WebSockets
– Present

Self-hosting

Configuration and maintenance of a self-hosted server. Its primary goals were to improve my system administration skills and to host my personal website. I improved its management over time as it is now fully configured using Ansible and integrates its own test suite.

  • Debian
  • Ansible
  • Vagrant
  • Security
  • Nginx
  • Pelican

Cryptic

Small script to help Ubuntu users multi-partition their filesystem with a fully encrypted disk at install time. The main purpose of this script was to be as simple as possible as it consists of a few characters to type, as the official installer did not offer this.

  • Open source
  • Bash scripting
  • LVM
  • LUKS
  • Ubuntu

Can't wait!

Small web application computing time remaining between events, intended to learn and play with recent features of the JavaScript Web APIs. Testing and functional programming principles were also applied.

  • Open source
  • JavaScript
  • History API
  • Selectors API
  • Bootstrap
  • Mocha
  • Chai

QML color components

Development of two components for the Qt Quick framework:

  • a color picker offering conversions in RGB, HSV, and hex code
  • a color interpolation component designed to compute a color between any number of colors
  • Open source
  • QML
  • JavaScript
  • C++

Interactive Drums

Developer on Interactive Drums, an augmented reality application that recreates the Rock Band concept on an acoustic drum kit.

  • Academic project
  • Virtual reality
  • 3DVIA Virtools

Speed Away!

Lead developer on a 2-player labyrinth game. It was an introduction to the HTML5 Canvas API and it helped me understand game engines by creating one.

  • Academic project
  • Open source
  • HTML5
  • JavaScript

Dibycia

Creation of a collaborative tool designed to manage the evolution of a database schema, inspired by the Active Record migrations of Ruby on Rails. The schema changes can then be included in a version control system to be sent to other developers and to the production server.
It was intended to help Ambycia's team at first, but Dibycia is available as a standalone program.

  • Open source
  • Object-oriented PHP
  • MVC

Ambycia

Founder, lead developer, and project manager of Ambycia, a futuristic MMORPG which includes its own micro-social network.
Although this student project was never released beyond an open beta, it was a first experience in game development and teamwork outside of our studies.

  • PHP
  • MySQL
  • Project & team management