Antoine Azar, Developer in Montreal, QC, Canada
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Antoine Azar

Verified Expert  in Engineering

Software Developer

Montreal, QC, Canada

Toptal member since January 19, 2021

Expertise
MacOSObjective-CiOSC++C#REST APIBig Data ArchitectureCloud EngineeringOpenGLPHP
Bio

An ex-Mozilla engineer, Antoine founded and scaled engineering teams for two tech startups, led an iOS mobile agency, built award-winning apps for retail, IoT, and gaming. At Fiska, Antoine built an entire retail loyalty platform ingesting millions of data points daily serving tens of thousands of retailers and consulted for Siemens, Autodesk, Microsoft, among others. Antoine has held the titles of CEO/CTO, invited conference speaker, patent holder, and recipient of several industry awards.

Portfolio

Fiska
Swift, iOS, Objective-C, JavaScript, Xamarin, .NET, C#, BigQuery, PHP, Python
Mobilogie
iOS, Python, PHP, Swift, Objective-C
Mozilla
Assembly, 2D Graphics, OpenGL ES, OpenGL, C++

Experience

  • Objective-C - 12 years
  • APIs - 10 years
  • C# - 8 years
  • Graphics - 6 years
  • Data Science - 5 years
  • BigQuery - 4 years
  • Python - 4 years
  • Swift - 2 years

Availability

Part-time

Preferred Environment

PyCharm, IntelliJ IDEA, Visual Studio, Windows, Xcode, MacOS

The most amazing...

...thing I’ve developed is a data science platform crunching millions of data points daily into insights, helping tens of thousands of retailers across the world.

Work Experience

CTO

2014 - 2021
Fiska
  • Built a retail loyalty platform ingesting millions of transactions/day from various points of sale to drive marketing campaigns and provide insights to retailers. The data science platform was built using Python/BigQuery on the Google Cloud Platform.
  • Invented a patent-pending industry-first technology to web-enable payment terminals. Built desktop, web, and mobile SDKs and simulators using C#, Xamarin, TypeScript, and iOS SDK.
  • Created and managed a team of over ten world-class engineers.
Technologies: Swift, iOS, Objective-C, JavaScript, Xamarin, .NET, C#, BigQuery, PHP, Python

CEO

2010 - 2015
Mobilogie
  • Built innovative iOS apps including full-motion 3D tracking body suits, interactive retail environments, and big data-driven loyalty apps.
  • Partnered with Apple and Microsoft, got several apps featured in the App Store, and won several industry awards.
  • Grew the company from 0 to 20 developers; built over 100 apps for clients ranging from startups to multinationals.
Technologies: iOS, Python, PHP, Swift, Objective-C

Software Engineer

2008 - 2010
Mozilla
  • Developed a vector-based graphics rendering engine for Firefox 3; at the time, offering much higher graphics quality than competing browsers.
  • Optimized performance of graphics rendering on Firefox using low-level C++ and assembly language.
  • Contributed to the multi-process re-architecture of Firefox, as well as Firefox for mobile.
Technologies: Assembly, 2D Graphics, OpenGL ES, OpenGL, C++

Experience

Thirdshelf Loyalty for Retail

http://www.thirdshelf.com
An online loyalty platform capable of ingesting millions of transactions from various points of sale (such as LightSpeed, Vend, Shopify, and so on)—analyzing customer behavior, and automating marketing campaigns to drive customer retention and increasing basket size.

As CTO of the company, I built the entire core platform, brought it to market, hired a team of world-class developers, and deployed it to tens of thousands of merchants across North America.

Mozilla Firefox

http://www.firefox.com
I was part of the early Firefox team, working on the rendering engine of Firefox, and implementing an industry-first vectorial graphics engine that offered much higher quality and performance than other competing browser engines. I subsequently contributed to Firefox for mobile, developing a performance-optimized multi-threaded architecture.

Education

2004 - 2005

Master's Degree in Computer and Biomedical Engineering

University of Nice Sophia Antipolis - Nice, France

1999 - 2004

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Engineering

École Polytechnique de Montréal - Montreal, Canada

Skills

Libraries/APIs

Vend API, REST APIs, Shopify API, OpenGL, OpenGL ES, React

Tools

Xcode, Visual Studio, Springboard Retail, PyCharm, BigQuery

Languages

C#, Objective-C, C++, Python, PHP, Swift, Assembly, JavaScript, TypeScript

Platforms

MacOS, Windows, iOS, Xamarin, Google Cloud Platform (GCP)

Frameworks

.NET

Other

Software Engineering, APIs, Optimization, 3D Graphics, 2D Graphics, Medical Imaging, Big Data, Data Science, Vector Graphics, Graphics, User Experience (UX)

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