Alban PERILLAT-MERCEROZ

En résumé

Entreprises

• Teads.tv, Montpellier - Software Engineer

  PARIS 2016 - maintenant

• Viadeo, San Francisco - Lead Software Engineer

  Paris 2014 - 2016 I led a self-organized, autonomous product team based in San Francisco, responsible of various products such as user profile, search and recommendation features for Viadeo's web and mobile applications:
  
  - Bootstrapped "Let's Meet", a geolocated recommendation tool for people you could meet in real life. Iterated from MVP to a full-featured product (Web, iPhone and Android apps). I designed and implemented the backend recommendation engine (Java, MySQL, Elasticearch), contributed to web (Node.js, Ember) and Android App.
  - Revamped Viadeo's members search engine: implemented a Scala, Spark job to index millions of documents into Algolia in a few minutes. Contributed to the Ember web app that provides an instant search experience.
  - Leading the revamping of the profile, one of Viadeo's most impactful products. Project involves rewriting most of the backend resources to support an entire new responsive single-page web app. Scope of the project includes view and edition modes.

• Viadeo, Paris - Software Engineer

  Paris 2012 - 2014 Premium & Payment Team, 1 year 4 months:
  
  In the Premium & Payment team, I led the technical aspects of payment-related products for web and mobile,
  - Designed and implemented the integration between Viadeo’s payment platform and App Store/Google Play recurrent in-app purchase systems,
  - Migrated Viadeo's payment platform to a new provider to improve flexibility on payment operations.
  - Improved payment platform's reliability and maintainability,
  
  API Team, 6 months:
  
  Viadeo's API exposes data for clients such as Viadeo’s mobile apps, third party developers and internal services. It provides OAuth 2.0 authentication, automatic documentation and advanced user authorizations. As a Software Engineer in the API team, I
  - Implemented, tested and rolled out new features, maintained, optimized, profiled and tested legacy code,
  - Conducted technical benchmarks for implementation choices or product acquisition,
  - Worked with a talented team of Engineers using agile methodologies and TDD.
  

• Viadeo, San Francisco - Software Engineer

  Paris 2012 - 2012 I joined Viadeo in San Francisco for a 6-months internship, focused on Search and Recommendation. I have been able to quickly contribute on impactful projects:
  
  - Improved the recommendation engine used to suggest job offers to several millions of members weekly. Focused on relevancy, performance and analytics: set up A/B testing to compare results during launch phase.
  - Implemented an auto-complete module meant to be used across several products in Viadeo. Project was an opportunity to make a proof of concept for a Solr to Elasticsearch migration.
  - Wrote a tool to duplicate a consistent subset of large SQL databases while processing its data: anonymization, cleansing, etc. Implemented using the Hadoop Cascading framework.
  

• Fullsix - Software Engineer

  Levallois-Perret 2010 - 2011 Five month internship in Fullsix's .NET team. Worked on new features and improvements for JOA Online casino's back office and SNCF's fidelity program websites.

• 3IE - Institut d'Innovation Informatique de l'EPITA - Developer

  Le Kremlin Bicêtre 2010 - 2010 Academic minor as a software developer in the 3IE innovation laboratory during a common-core syllabus semester of EPITA.

• EPITA - Programming teacher assistant

  Villejuif 2009 - 2010 Programming teacher assistant for OCaml and C#, teaching th 40 firsts year students of EPITA

Formations

• EPITA - Ecole D'Ingénieurs En Informatique

  Kremlin Bicêtre 2007 - 2012 Diplôme d'Ingénieur (Master of Science in Information Technology)
  
  Major in Software Engineering and Information Systems