Olivier Durin - Senior software architect

DURIN Olivier

Married, 6 children

50 years old

Coordinates

12 b avenue des Gobelins

75005 Paris

France

Contact

mailto:olivier.durin@gmail.com

Home +33 1 47 07 28 75

Cell +33 6 95 93 94 43

Education

1992 Thesis at Nice University on the incremental evaluation of attribute grammars
1989 Master's degree in fundamental Mathematics and Computer Science at the ENS (Ulm).
- Courses on Programming UNIX, Prolog and lisp implementation, Robotics, neuronal networks, database implementation, memory management and garbage collection, general software engineering, user interface conception and implementation.
1984 – 1988 Ecole Polytechnique
- The most famous public engineering school in France.
- Specialisation in physics: lasers, holograms. In maths: catastrophes and bifurcations. Algorithmic.
1981 A-levels degree: Baccalauréat Scientifique
- Maths and Physics with German Russian and ancient Greek)
1980 English part of the HSC (Australian high school degree)

Profile overview

15 years of experience as CTO in several start-up companies. I solve architectural problems, scalability problems, memory leaks, presentation, security or structural problems.
Expert in several fields of Web engineering: Java J2EE, Spring, Hibernate, RichFaces and databases Postgresql, mysql, Oravcle, DB2 and others. Experience in retro conception, re-engineering, migrating infrastructures and data to the cloud, Test driven programming.
Having managed thousands of student projects as well as professionals, good at organising people into a working team. Used and taught extreme programming (DSDM, Scrum) but have also used less flexible methods.
Having specialized in compiler tools, Good at migrating applications from one framework to another, migrating from one version to another and maintaining properly documented ascending compatibility.

Work experience

2,5 years as CTO for Ellegiance (CRM)
- Built from scratch the web application that sends a monthly average of 10 million emails and 1 million SMS for some 50 clients, tracks openings, clicks, interfaces with GoogleAnalytics, presents the Business Intelligence with HighCharts, a homemade ETL to automatically synchronize our databases with the client's data.
- Achievements: a graphical scenario editor for piloting email and sms campaigns with drag and drop features, implementation in the Amazon cloud, implementing a complete test platform with Hudson.
2,5 years as Senior Architect for NATIXIS (employed by GFI, as a consultant) Java expert applied to B2C, IRC computation
- Built Zeperil, Pascalyzer and others, up to a total of 11 applications that are now regularly used by people in the Risk department.
- Achievements: computing the IRC (Incremental Risk Charge) on 40 million scenarios in 5 hours with 2 computers only, automating rules to match the positions between the financial department and the risk department.
6 months as Senior Architect for NATIXIS (employed by Viveo, Banking software editor) Expert on Swing, Sybase and Performance issues.
- In charge of the R2M and RM applications. (R2M builds reports from the analytical data computed by the risk analysis software, RM is the tool used to evaluate VaR limits).
- Achievements include redesigning the whole process behind VaR analysis (from the software to the human process) bringing it's overall time cost to 6 to 7 hours instead of 6 to 7 days.
3 months as Java Expert for Barclays (employed by Viveo, Banking software editor) Expert on JSP, Hibernate, Javascript and Performance issues.
- In charge of performance issues, connecting the application to legacy applications and coaching the junior management.
- Achievements include the ontime delivery of the online banking and trading Web Application.
6 months as CSA for Tokuii (CRM software editor) in Kualla Lumpur (Malaysia) Expert on JSP, Hibernate, Flash, Javascript and Postgresql. In an English speaking environment, with a Chinese speaking management.
- In charge of the reengineering of the whole application Recruiting and coaching the development team.
- Achievements include the satisfaction of the first three clients of the company.
3 years as CTO for RVR Systems (Risk management and internal control software editor) Expert on JSP, Struts, EJB, Hibernate and JDO. Functional expert on the business aspects of the application (risk management, audit, internal control, Sarbanes-Oxley compliance, sustainable development).
- In charge of the research and development team (6 people) and building the team for deployment and tests (3 people). Recruiting and coaching the operations team.
- Achievements include conceiving and implementing a proper quality process as the company grew, migrating the software to accept several types of databases, automating the database structural migrations, migrating from simple Jsp-Struts-Java to EJB, full internationalization of the application (including user defined content).
1 year as CTO for SupInfoPro and Professor of computer science (and English) at SupInfo (a computer science school) E-learning tools, change management, software engineering.
- In charge of 35 students/developers. Missions including finding small sized contracts suitable for the team.
- Achievements include a partnership with Microsoft on the .net platform which we tested and used for the development of the E-learning tool until it became sufficiently obvious to everyone that the product was not mature enough to be used. In a matter of weeks, we migrated the whole framework to Java.
CTO and Senior architect in several small companies (Qualiope, Epizootie and StellarX among others).
- Up to seven small sized teams under my coordination at the same time, management of outsourcing (an Armenian development team).
- Achievements include implementing genetic algorithms to control msagents, incremental evaluation of decision rules for piloting special offers in commercial Websites with external constraints, generic modelling of IT elements for the generation of glue code to include them in modern web applications. Languages and tools include Java, CORBA, RMI, Mitrol (an archaic Database), jdbc, J++, C++.
10 years as Professor in a software engineering school, ESIEA (Conceived and presented courses including Compilers, Functional programming, Java, Information Theory, Algorithms, Object Oriented Programming, Software engineering). 3000 students. Regular contact with software editors to find internship periods for the students.
- In charge of the pedagogical aspects of computer science department. (Organizing meetings with all the teachers and professors on the scientific content and the means to pass it on to the students)
2 years of research at the INRIA. Incremental evaluation of attribute grammars: building compilers and structured editors that would compile code incrementally.
- Achievements include migrating FNC2 from a C base code to lisp (for integration in the Centaur project), using attribute grammars to replace Prolog in Centaur, using attribute grammars to manage graphical user interfaces.
1 year as Aspirant and then Lieutenant in the french army. Command of a platoon of three tanks.

Computer related Skills

Programming languages
- Java Since the beginning, 5 years of teaching, 14 years of intensive use. Gui programming with awt and then Swing. Migrating to Java 7
- Javascript, jQuery, Json, AJAX,
- SQL and PL/SQL
- C, C++ 20 years of experience in C and regular use of C++. I've also used C# but it's not my favourite language.
- Lisp 15 years of experience including teaching, interpreter programming. I've used many dialects (Scheme, lelisp, CLISP, MacLisp, emacslisp)
- Scripting languages: shell, python, perl
- HMTL XHTML XML/XSL/XSLT CSS.
Databases
- Postgresql and mysql are my favorite.
- Also worked with Oracle, DB2, SQLServer, Access.
Operating systems
- LINUX I've worked with several versions. Nowadays, I use Ubuntu
- Windows
Tools
- Test: Jmeter and WebLoad, Selenium
- IDE: Eclipse , WSAD, RAD and RationalRose
- Source Control: SVN, Git, RCS, SCCS and CVS
- Scripting: Ant, maven, make, perl and several Shells
- Editors: Emacs, Vi and Vim
- Web: Tomcat, Apache or NGinX
Other
- Redmine, Bugzilla, DotProject and Mantis
- Hudson, Selenium and JUnit