Dec 2021 – Present · 4 yrs 4 mos · Paris, Île-de-France, France · Remote

• Working with enterprise customers to build intelligent applications on Azure, bridging the gap between Java ecosystems and Microsoft's AI platform capabilities.

Apr 2021 – Dec 2021 · 8 mos · Paris, Île-de-France, France

• Senior Developer on the MyPAD project (CRM)
• ● Developed endpoints following the SCIM specification using Quarkus and Java
• ● Interaction with the Azure Active Directory
• ● Deployed on Azure
• ● Azure DevOps.
• #Developer #Java #Quarkus #Azure #AzureAD #AKS

May 2018 – Nov 2020 · 2 yrs 6 mos · Paris Area, France

• Creator of the Voxxed Microservices conference:
• ● Annual conference based in Paris on Microservices
• ● 500 attendees
• ● 50 speakers
• ● 2 days

Oct 2016 – Jun 2017 · 8 mos · Paris, Île-de-France, France

• Created the AllCraft startup. AllCraft was meant to allow any talented software developer to work from home and develop the best tools in an agile way.
• ● Co-created the company
• ● Looked for developers
• ● Looked for customers
• ● Setup the agile tooling
• #Java #Cloud #AWS #Mezos

Jan 2016 – Jul 2016 · 6 mos · Brussels Area, Belgium

• Senior developer on mediacal application written in Java with a Swing front-end (for tactile screens) and Web/Rest services.
• ● Rearchitected the existing application allowing it to be modular
• ● Increased test coverage and robustness
• ● Tuned and improved performance and scalability
• ● Helped the Agile team in moving to Git
• ● Deployed the application to the Cloud with Ops Team
• #Java #Git #REST #Cloud #AWS

Sep 2014 – Jun 2017 · 2 yrs 9 mos

• Part of the Expert Group of JSR 365 (CDI 2.0)

Sep 2014 – Jun 2017 · 2 yrs 9 mos

• Part of the Expert Group of JSR 366 (Java EE 8)

Mar 2011 – Aug 2014 · 3 yrs 5 mos

• Part of the Expert Group of JSR 342 (Java EE 7)

Jan 2010 – Jun 2014 · 4 yrs 5 mos

• Part of the Expert Group of JSR 318 (EJB 3.1)

Jul 2007 – Dec 2009 · 2 yrs 5 mos

• Part of the Expert Group of JSR 316 (Java EE 6)

Feb 2014 – Present · 12 yrs 2 mos

• Creator of the following courses :
• ● Quarkus: Fundamentals
• ● Microservices: The Big Picture
• ● Java EE: Fundamentals
• ● Java EE: Getting Started
• ● Java EE: The Big Picture
• ● Bean Validation 1.1
• ● JPA 2.1
• ● CDI 1.1

Jan 2014 – Dec 2015 · 1 yr 11 mos · Paris

• Architect and developer on the DSN application.
• ● Participating on the technical choices of the project that uses Spring Batch for batch processing
• ● JBoss 6.4 EAP
• ● Vaadin for the user interface
• ● SOAP and REST Web Service (interaction with Web Methods)
• ● Testing part with JUnit, JBehave (BDD), Arquillian, Mock
• ● Postgres / H2
• #Java #Spring #JBoss #Vaadin #REST #Jenkins

Jul 2012 – Jun 2013 · 11 mos

• Wrote "Beginning Java EE 7"

Jan 2009 – Jun 2012 · 3 yrs 5 mos

• Wrote "Beginning Java EE 6 Platform with GlassFish 3: From Novice to Professional" 1st and 2nd edition

Jan 2012 – Dec 2015 · 3 yrs 11 mos

• As a general open source contributor, I've started contributing to the JBoss Forge documentation, created a Hands on Lab, and then sent a few pull/request. I managed to be in the Top 10 contributors of the porject ;o)

Apr 2011 – Present · 15 yrs · Paris

• Co-creator of the Devoxx France conference:
• ● Annual IT conference based in Paris
• ● 3000 attendees
• ● 200 speakers
• ● 3 days
• ● Sponsors (Google, Microsoft, Amazon, etc.)

Jan 2010 – Dec 2021 · 11 yrs 11 mos

• Based on my books (Java EE, Quarkus), I've created several training courses:
• ● Online course: Building Microservices with Quarkus
• ● Online course: Starting with Quarkus
• ● 3 days training course on Microservices with Quarkus
• ● 3 days training course on Java EE 7
• ● 1 day browsing the novelties of Java EE 7
• ● 3 days training course on Advanced Java EE 6
• ● 3 days training course on Java EE 6

Sep 2009 – Dec 2013 · 4 yrs 3 mos · Paris, Île-de-France, France

• Software architect and mentor on many internal projects.
• ● Worked on creating the new development guidelines based on Spring and Java EE 6.
• ● Worked on the migration from WebSphere to JBoss 6 EAP.
• ● Developer on several business teams
• #Java #JavaEE #Spring #JBoss #Puppet #Jenkins

Jun 2009 – Sep 2009 · 3 mos

• Consultant for a highly available messaging architecture
• ● JBoss Messaging clustering (on 24 nodes)
• ● TimesTen database, 24/7
• ● JGroups, JBoss Cache
• #Java #JBoss #Scalability #Performance

May 2009 – Present · 16 yrs 11 mos

• Podcaster with Emmanuel Bernard, Guillaume Laforge, Vincent Massol, Arnaud Heritier and Audrey Neveu
• #Podcast #Software #ProgrammingLanguage #BackEnd #FrontEnd #Cloud #Architecture

Feb 2008 – Feb 2015 · 7 yrs

• Co-creator and president

Nov 2007 – Dec 2008 · 1 yr 1 mo

• Java EE software architect
• ● Mentoring project teams
• ● Involved with portals (mainly eXo Platform), web (RichFaces...)
• ● Java EE technologies (persistence, web services, messaging, Spring...)
• ● Build systems (Maven, Bamboo, SVN...)
• #Java #JBoss #JavaEE #Spring #Bamboo

Oct 2007 – Nov 2007 · 1 mo

• Java EE 5 consultant and training :
• ● EJB 3
• ● JPA
• ● GlassFish
• ● WebServices

Jan 2007 – Jun 2007 · 5 mos

• Author of the Java EE 5 book

Sep 2005 – Feb 2007 · 1 yr 5 mos

• Technical architect of the migration project.
• Application server architect (Sun One Server and Weblogic) migrating to Open Source

Jan 2005 – Aug 2005 · 7 mos

• Setup the development platform
• Write use case with customer to develop a scheduling tool
• Define the architecture, development rules and tools (weblogic, workshop...)
• Lead two developers

Oct 2001 – Dec 2003 · 2 yrs 2 mos

• Project leader of a technical team : architecture design, J2EE development recommendation, create developement environement, help business teams, design frameworks, O/R mapping.
• Lead up to six developers.

Aug 1999 – May 2001 · 1 yr 9 mos · London, England, United Kingdom

• Weblogic and J2EE consultant. Worked for many customers through Europe like Deutsche Bank, NetDecisions, Bristish Airways, Money Line, GlaxoWellcome, Marakech, EDS, Jumpy...

Jan 1999 – Sep 1999 · 8 mos

• Help the company to choose a platform to use in their web developments.

Nov 1996 – Oct 1998 · 1 yr 11 mos

• Development of the SIM card creation project at CEGETEL

Sep 1992 – Jun 1999 · 6 yrs 9 mos

• Develop and architect for several customers (banking, insurance, telecomunication, etc.)