Antoine Azar
Verified Expert in Engineering
Software Developer
Montreal, QC, Canada
Toptal 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.
Portfolio
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
Work Experience
CTO
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.
CEO
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.
Software Engineer
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.
Project History
Thirdshelf Loyalty for Retail
http://www.thirdshelf.comAs 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
Education
Master's Degree in Computer and Biomedical Engineering
University of Nice Sophia Antipolis - Nice, France
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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