CTO
2014 - 2021Fiska- 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, PythonCEO
2010 - 2015Mobilogie- 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: Android, iOS, Python, PHP, Swift, Objective-CSoftware Engineer
2008 - 2010Mozilla- 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++
Antoine Azar
Software Developer in Montreal, QC, Canada
Member since January 19, 2021
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.
Antoine is now available for hire
Experience
- Objective-C 12 years
- APIs 10 years
- C# 8 years
- Graphics 6 years
- Data Science 5 years
- Python 4 years
- BigQuery 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.
Employment
Experience
- Thirdshelf Loyalty for Retailhttp://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 Firefoxhttp://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.
Skills
Languages
C#, Objective-C, C++, Python, PHP, Swift, Assembly, JavaScript, TypeScriptLibraries/APIs
Vend API, REST APIs, Shopify API, OpenGL, OpenGL ES, ReactTools
Xcode, Visual Studio, Springboard Retail, PyCharm, BigQueryPlatforms
MacOS, Windows, iOS, Xamarin, Google Cloud Platform (GCP)Other
Software Engineering, APIs, Optimization, 3D Graphics, 2D Graphics, Medical Imaging, Big Data, Vector Graphics, Graphics, User Experience (UX)Frameworks
.NETParadigms
Data Science
Education
- Master's Degree in Computer and Biomedical Engineering2004 - 2005University of Nice Sophia Antipolis - Nice, France
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Engineering1999 - 2004École Polytechnique de Montréal - Montreal, Canada
