Guillaume ALAUX
I am a 30-year-old IT passionate with over 4 years experience in software conception and integration in several development environments and languages. I have an extensive Object Oriented development knowledge and a good practice of the whole project lifecycle. I am more specifically interested in open source and free software - I am an Arch Linux developer.
- Age: 30
- Nationality: French
- Languages: French / English (Fluent)
- E-mail: guillaume at alaux dot net
Employment objective:
A position of software engineer in a challenging Linux or open source environment
Qualifications
2006: French Research Master Degree with honors in Information Technology
Professional experience
Since October 2009: Java EE developer and open source expert at Linagora
I am currently working as a Java EE developer for
OBM, a free messaging and collaborative solution.
- Application testing, bug reporting and bug fixing
- Developed and debugged JavaScript and Java EE code
- Agile, Scrum and Test Driven Development
I also worked as a Java EE expert providing support to companies using open source softwares. My area of responsability included Java EE softwares (Tomcat, JBoss, Eclipse, ...) but I also worked on many other applications ranging from Thunderbird and OpenOffice to Upstart for bug correction or integration purposes.
- Provided support for open source application and frameworks
- Targeted and corrected bugs in a wide variety of softwares.
- Provided support and advised companies using open source software regarding configuration, deployment, migrations, evolutions, bug corrections
- Wrote technological surveys about open source Java solutions regarding clients requirements
- Acted as a Technical Account Manager for our clients interested in Java topics
- Wrote weekly introduction articles in French open source blog LinuxFr.org
- Developed a small open source Python application for server simple administration tasks
From December 2008 to June 2009: Software integration engineer
I joined an international team in Sydney, Australia and dealt with software integration:
- Integrated a back-office software onto a client's information system
- Delveloped a graphical user interface using the dedicated Python framework
- Learned the company's internal processes
From May to September 2008: Software engineer and Java EE developer
I joined a development team and worked on these two Java EE projects:
- Designed and developed a Java EE web application for social aid (Java EE 5, JSF, JPA)
- Quick adaptation to the technical and functionnal environment (short deadlines involved)
- Made connection between this web application and a Customer Relationship Managment system through SQL queries (JDBC)
- Corrected and implemented evolutions on an other Java EE web application dealing with mail edition
- Fast integration to team and learning of application architecture
From April 2007 to May 2008: Software engineer and Java EE developer
I worked for over a year for an insurance company for whom I was involved in the three following projects.
Software integration:
- Took part to weekly meeting with other teams involved in the integration process
- Designed, developed and tested a Java application (Java EE, web services, SOAP, XML/HTTP, EJB, Hibernate, JUnit)
- Wrote reports and several documents related to the Java application or its installation
Software integration:
- Assisted the project manager in organizing and conducting meetings
- Took part in leading teams
- Wrote status reports
Java EE developer:
- Integrated a team to replace a leaving Java developer in the design and development team
- Quickly adapted to the company's framework
- Developed the business tier connected to databases (Oracle, Hibernate) and providing web services (XML, SOAP, WSDL) to the presentation tier
- Designed and developed an administration tool for these two portals (Struts for presentation tier)
- Made corrections and evolutions asked by leading team
- Proposed and made several tools to automate actions (Custom javadoc generation tool to describe web services for presentation tier developers, WSAD plugin for Business Object and JUnit classes generation, Log viewer for the framework's log format)
From March to April 2007 (1 month): Java EE developer
I joined a development team during the bug correction process of an analysis reporting software for laboratories.
- Tested clients requirements on the software
- Reported technical issues on Mantis bug tracker (Web based bugtracking system)
- Corrected bugs on a Java Struts application
Other IT Experience
As a passionnate about Linux distributions, I work on personnal projects as hobbies. This is a way for me to stisfy my curiosity and to learn about Operating Systems.
Archlinux
- Arch Linux developer (package maintainer)
- Shell scripting for software/libraries integration and compilation
- Bugs reporting and fixing and community feedback
Informatic related competences
- Operating systems: Unix/Linux, Windows 9x/XP and NT
- Programming languages: Java EE, JavaCard, C/C++, PHP, HTML, Pascal, Delphi
- Telecommunication GSM/UMTS protocols, TCP/IP, Unix network programming
- Conception Methods: UML, Merise
- Networks: Ethernet, Token-Ring, UDP, TCP, IP, ...
- Databases: SQL (PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQL Developer)
- Softwares (Websphere Server Application Developer, Eclipse, NetBeans, Java Development Kit, Microsoft Visual Studio, Borland Delphi
Languages
Miscellaneous
- Spare time: I like running, swimming and practicing badminton. I am also interested in Aeronautics, Origami, guitar and history.
- Fond of French history
- I am a Free Software fan.
