
François Bonin
Verified Expert in Engineering
Architecture Developer
Paris, France
Toptal member since September 16, 2018
Since 2000, François has been building software systems with various technologies. After having been awarded the Microsoft MVP title four years in a row for his deep knowledge of the .NET platform, he discovered a passion for building and monitoring distributed systems as an Amazon senior engineer. During that time, he worked with teams across continents and developed an affinity for cloud software.
Portfolio
Experience
- .NET - 16 years
- Java - 15 years
- Databases - 15 years
- Architecture - 15 years
- REST - 12 years
- Solution Architecture - 10 years
- Microservices - 8 years
- Node.js - 3 years
Preferred Environment
Git, IntelliJ IDEA, Visual Studio, Linux, Windows
The most amazing...
...design I’ve created was for an automated enterprise bus that interoperated hundreds of services in various styles, data formats, and protocols with no coding.
Work Experience
Chief Technology Officer
WeChop
- Built and maintained a distributed system to support eCommerce and delivery vehicle routing operations.
- Constructed a communication infrastructure on top of Telegram bots using the Microsoft Bot framework.
- Wrote a recommendation engine for customers of the eCommerce engine, using TensorFlow. Coded an implementation of a vehicle routing and scheduling heuristic.
- Plugged in hand-refined SQL queries into Amazon QuickSight to provide business intelligence to the operations management.
- Managed the continuous delivery ecosystem of the company.
- Architected and coded the entire system (mobile application and back-end microservices) for a food delivery and courier-tracking application.
Principal Engineer
AppDynamics
- Defined and oversaw the end product's features (for the .NET platform).
- Wrote and maintained a Windows service that performed just-in-time IL injections into applications.
- Built tools to measure the performance overhead of monitoring agents.
- Designed and built a network-performance-monitoring system that intercepts socket-based events, compiles statistics, and transmits them to a collection server.
- Maintained a Java-to-C# translation tool to facilitate the porting of existing features between platforms.
Senior Software Engineer
Amazon.com
- Designed and led the teams that built and operated large-scale, Java-distributed systems using message queues, NoSQL databases, autoscaling, and decoupled architectures.
- Architected cloud-based workflow systems with integrated compensation patterns.
- Built a load-testing, Python-based solution for web services.
- Designed and built a service-oriented, architecture-based model for the interoperation of technologically disparate services across the company. Configuration of that service was done using an XML-based, service-definition language.
- Architected and built an entirely automated enterprise service bus for distributed services.
- Mentored developers in the use of professional software-development methodologies and tools: continuous deployment, automated testing, instrumentation, and monitoring.
Architect (Contractor)
Orange
- Implemented business Intelligence projects with SQL Server Reporting Services.
- Worked in a distributed team of over 40 developers.
- Managed software projects with the Team Foundation Server.
- Architected and built a mobile phone-based money transfer system using .NET, and an Oracle back-end.
- Developed and deployed WPF client applications to serve as the management front end for mobile-transfer applications.
Software Contractor
TopCoder Software
- Performed architecture validation and designed the J2EE systems for projects ranging from order management to healthcare provision systems.
- Built a .NET-based smart client applications for ratings and viewership tracking.
- Constructed an ASP.NET MVC document management system.
- Wrote unit and integration tests to ensure full coverage of the code base.
- Performed component architecture for an application-building system based on NAnt.
Lead Developer
theSOFTtribe
- Architected and helped develop a web-based customer self-care system application for mobile phone companies.
- Designed and coded a C++ RAD framework to facilitate Windows NT development.
- Built a multiplatform database manipulation library (Interbase, SQL Server, and Oracle were all supported).
- Created a software internationalization tool suite using C++ and XML back-end storage.
- Developed a public-key data encryption library for front-facing Linux system tools.
- Created replacement modules for a computer associates' Clipper system calls to make it Windows NT enabled.
- Designed a mission-critical online transaction processing databases on Oracle, Interbase, and MySQL.
Experience
Food Delivery Application Ecosystem
WORK COMPLETED
• Wrote around 12 microservices using Node.js and C#: order fulfillment, vendor communications, and delivery routing.
• Built two relational databases (MySQL) and a NoSQL one (DynamoDB).
• Developed four mobile applications (iOS and Android for consumers and Android for couriers and vendors).
• Implemented the interactions with 3rd-party APIs (REST and proprietary) exchanging JSON and XML payloads.
Node.js Communications Platform
The project was hosted in the AWS cloud, and Twilio was used to make voice calls and send SMS.
An exciting aspect of the project is the innovative use of SNS, SQS, and Lambda to achieve massive scalability while keeping costs under control.
Automated Enterprise Bus Service for Distributed Systems
In return, the system ensures the discovery and interoperation (with the appropriate sequencing of operations and marshaling of input/output parameters) across protocols and service styles without writing a single line of code.
Serverless SMS Platform
The entire project was hosted in the AWS Cloud and made extensive use of AWS Lambda, S3, SNS, DynamoDB, Pinpoint, RDS (PostgreSQL), and CloudWatch.
Neural Network-driven Customer Recommendation Engine
Customer Communications Bot | SMS and Facebook Messenger
Technologies: Amazon Lex, Twilio API, Node.js, Facebook SDK, and Go.
Network Performance Monitor
Mobile Staff and Job-tracking Application
I designed the architecture and led the development team behind this application.
Customers are kept up-to-date via an SMS sent from back-end servers via the Twilio API. Concurrently, the staff receives notifications through their devices on the Amazon Simple Notification Service (plugged into Google Cloud Messaging and Amazon SQS for fanning out to the appropriate collaborating staff).
Generic GA Tuner
Billing Management Software with Assistive Technology
The application was written in C++ (using C++ Builder) for Windows XP and used the Microsoft Active Accessibility API to enable specific features:
• Support the high contrast mode.
• Make all of the functionality of the application keyboard (not only mouse) accessible.
• Provide an on-screen keyboard.
• Enable scaling of all screens, controls, and fonts in the UI appropriately with user preferences.
Payment Service-Provider Fulfilment API
The entire system consists of two component services. The service I was in charge of exposed its contract via Swagger and optimally used dependency injections to facilitate unit testing (mocking its storage, authentication service, 3rd-party APIs, and more). Deployment was done through Docker images.
Home Safety IoT Project
• Composed the appliance code: reads sensors and periodically reports on their values.
• Built the back-end API using AWS Lambda with Aurora storage.
• Implemented data-processing functions, emitting safety diagnostics based on the data read by the appliance.
This IoT project deployed over 600,000 appliances with gas and weight sensors to multiple homes, reporting to a back-end server to detect various safety conditions.
Mobile applications (iOS and Android) and web applications interact with each appliance's data to view the diagnostics and predictions attached to it.
Enterprise Content-Management Solution
Content Management System
ETL Data
Pharmacy-to-consumer Software Solution
Trading System Overhaul
• Addressed and resolved issues stemming from the API changes, such as date format adjustments.
• Collaborated with the client to identify and implement additional improvements and enhancements to the trading platform.
Solution Architecture for a decentralized Marketplace system
Acted as an advisor/consultant that helped help the client to improve build cycles, make the architecture more robust for the next phases of the project
Implementing Connections to Peripheral Devices from .NET
• Refactor the system design.
Toptal Lightning Start Architecture
1. Requirements gathering.
2. Scope definition.
3. Architecture proposals.
4. Technology recommendations.
5. Integration definition with spelling/grammar checkers, plagiarism detection, and bibliography formatting.
Financial Advisor Web Application Tooling
• Understanding user requirements, proposing solutions, conducting analysis, and performing design prior to development.
• Working on a highly collaborative, mission-driven, Agile product team.
• Integrating applications using API-led and cloud-first architectural design patterns with in-house custom applications and third-party SaaS providers.
• Leading vendor contract developers on various integrations, providing appropriate guidance and oversight that ensures alignment with enterprise architecture.
• Helping develop a new engineering team.
• Conducting code reviews and design sessions.
• Identifying and implementing solutions independently and in conjunction with a development team.
• Consulting with designers, developers, and architects to evaluate and develop product specifications.
• Tracking project status and communicating progress effectively to internal management and external stakeholders.
• Integrating with web testing services for unit, functional, and scalability testing.
Azure Application Development
• Build reusable back-end components, REST APIs, Web services, and microservices.
• Build data access layers.
• Write automated unit tests.
• Understand and translate business requirements into technical requirements/specifications.
• Be a part of a larger development team and interface with product, project, DevOps, and QA teams.
• Use Agile and Kanban methodologies for SDLC.
• Maintain work backlog through Jira.
• Collaborate with team members across multiple geographic locations as well as time zones.
Cloud Architect for a Worldwide Fleet of IoT Devices
API Integration for Hospitality Web Services
API Integration with Software Security Tools
Education
Master's Degree in Software Engineering
University of Liverpool - Liverpool, United Kingdom
Bachelor's Degree in Mathematics
Paris Diderot University - Paris, France
Certifications
Most Valuable Professional (Award)
Microsoft
Oracle 6 DBA
Oracle
Skills
Libraries/APIs
API Development, LINQ, REST APIs, Twilio API, Node.js, Web API, Win32 API, Entity Framework, Windows Forms (WinForms), TensorFlow, Standard Template Library (STL), Facebook Messenger API, React, jQuery
Tools
IntelliJ IDEA, Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS), Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS), Visual Studio .NET, Amazon Lex, Amazon CloudWatch, GitHub, C#.NET WinForms, Jira, Visual Studio, Git, GitLab, Auth0, AWS Batch, Terraform, Microsoft Access, AWS Fargate, Dapper, Bitbucket, Chef, TFS, Mathematica, Salesforce Marketing Cloud, Postman, Azure Logic Apps
Languages
SQL, C#.NET, JavaScript, Java, C#, HTML, XML, dBASE, C, C++, TypeScript, CSS3, Go, GraphQL, Java 11, Bash Script, Snowflake, Python 3, Python, HTML5, PHP, CSS
Frameworks
ASP.NET Web Forms, ASP.NET, JUnit, ASP.NET MVC, .NET, NancyFx, .NET Core, .NET 4, ADO.NET, .NET 6, Google Guice, Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF), Hadoop, ASP.NET Core, Mockito, Blazor, Entity Framework Core, Razor Pages, OAuth 2, Hibernate, Spring, Angular, Express.js, Ruby on Rails (RoR), Django
Paradigms
API Architecture, Concurrent Programming, Lambda Architecture, Service-oriented Architecture (SOA), Unit Testing, REST, Microservices, MapReduce, MVC Design, Serverless Architecture, Model View Controller (MVC), Continuous Integration (CI), DevOps, Scalable Application, Agile, Continuous Delivery (CD), API/Services Architecture, Event-driven Architecture, ETL, Object-oriented Programming (OOP), Agile Software Development, Functional Programming, Code Refactoring, Requirements Analysis, Microservices Architecture
Platforms
AWS Lambda, Amazon EC2, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Windows, AWS IoT, Twilio, Win32, Windows Server, Windows Desktop, Oracle, Linux, Docker, Azure, Kubernetes, Windows Server 2016, Android, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Mobile, AWS IoT Core
Storage
Databases, MySQL, NoSQL, Amazon S3 (AWS S3), Amazon DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, JSON, Relational Databases, SQL Server 2012, InterBase, SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS), SQL Server 2016, Microsoft SQL Server, MongoDB, Redis, SQL Server 2017, Azure SQL, Data Pipelines, Oracle RDBMS, Azure Blobs, SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS), Google Cloud, Amazon Aurora, Redshift
Industry Expertise
Cybersecurity
Other
Internet of Things (IoT), Architecture, Software Architecture, Cloud, Concurrency, Lambda Functions, Cloud Architecture, Service, Algorithms, AWS Cloud Architecture, Monitoring, Distributed Systems, Data Structures, APIs, Solution Architecture, Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC), Amazon API Gateway, Localization, SOLID Principles, Serverless, Amazon RDS, Third-party Integration, CI/CD Pipelines, Integration Testing, Back-end, API Integration, Integration, RESTful Services, Webhooks, ASCII, DLL, Point of Sale, Scalable Architecture, Security Design, Software Design, Leadership, Scalability, CTO, Technical Architecture, Technical Leadership, RESTful Microservices, Software Engineering, Online Payments, API Documentation, Technical Writing, Stock Trading, SaaS Design, API Design, Amazon EventBridge, Back-end Development, Trading, Software Requirements Specifications (SRS), Cryptography, Windows Communication Foundation (WCF), SMPP, Accessibility, USB, Mathematics, SOAP, Full-stack Development, Software Consulting, FTP, FTP Servers, Performance, Data Processing, System Service & Hardware Control, Full-stack, Scheduling, WCF Web Services, Payment APIs, Security, Multitenancy, Content Management Systems (CMS), Neural Networks, Networking, Microsoft Data Transformation Services (now SSIS), Elastic Load Balancers, Geometry, ACM Problem Solving, Windows Services, Profiling, ClickOnce, BizTalk, Microsoft Commerce Server, Accessible Design, Inno Setup, WebSockets, Front-end, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning, Data Privacy, Web Scraping, SaaS, OAuth, OpenID Connect (OIDC), Hardware Drivers, Packet Communication, Printer Drivers, System Architecture, Scope Management, Amazon Kinesis, IoT Protocols, Middleware
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