Principal Software Engineer
2018 - 2019Intralinks- Designed and implemented a custom theming system (microservice, client libraries).
Technologies: Backbone.js, Redux, React, Mongoose, Express.jsSenior Web Developer
2016 - 2017ON Animation Studios- Developed web-based production management tools integrated with the in-house pipeline.
- Built a web-based art gallery to expose renders and concepts directly from the pipeline. Generated gif for video previews, and supported image sequences for visualizing parts of the storyboard.
- Created a notification system that allowed users to receive notifications on items matching a query.
- Built end-to-end front-end tests that ran on every commit using headless Chrome and Gitlab CI.
- Designed data models for use in a graph database (Neo4j).
Technologies: GitLab, Neo4j, Couchbase, Tornado, AngularSenior Web Developer
2015 - 2016EventMobi- Built a digital signage solution from the ground up, using a Flask back-end and React/Redux front-end.
- Created multiple microservices for the back-end.
- Integrated with the company's CMS to allow customizing the look and feel of the display.
- Developed end-to-end unit tests that ran automatically, using CircleCI and Chrome under Xvfb.
- Participated in an internal hackathon to come up with a proof of concept of the digital signage solution.
Technologies: Xvfb, CircleCI, MySQL, Redux, React, Flask, PythonSenior Web Developer
2014 - 2015VarageSale- Designed and built a metrics platform from the ground up.
- As part of the growth team, built and tested many A/B tests for user engagement and retention.
- Integrated a restyling of the main product that could be turned on and off on demand.
- Participated in building mobile app end to end tests using Appium.
- Developed multiple test cases for the main product to increase code coverage with RSpec.
- Created a tool to import data from newly acquired communities from their Facebook group.
- Set up the company blog using Wordpress.
Technologies: Elasticsearch, Redis, MySQL, Sass, CoffeeScript, Ruby on Rails (RoR), RubySenior Web Developer
2012 - 2014Bunch- Contributed to the development of Bunch, interest-based forums.
- Built a prototype iOS app, using ObjC and XCode.
- Created a Chrome extension to share tweets as discussions on Bunch.
- Developed a unified feed of discussions across groups using Elasticsearch.
- Rebuilt the site's front-end in a couple of weeks.
- Built multiple features as A/B tests for user engagement and retention.
Technologies: Elasticsearch, Redis, MySQL, Less, Backbone.js, Django
Cyril Robert
Software Developer in Ottawa, ON, Canada
Member since November 20, 2017
Cyril is a Python developer with 15 years of experience. He enjoys building web back-ends, solving challenging problems, and performance optimization. Cyril has also been working on front-end development for the past five years using React and Angular.
Cyril is now available for hire
Portfolio
- IntralinksBackbone.js, Redux, React, Mongoose, Express.js
- ON Animation StudiosGitLab, Neo4j, Couchbase, Tornado, Angular
- EventMobiXvfb, CircleCI, MySQL, Redux, React, Flask, Python
Availability
Part-time
Preferred Environment
Vim Text Editor, Visual Studio Code, Fish, Git, MacOS, Linux
The most amazing...
...software I've built were C storage modules for calendars and address books that were between 5 and 150 times faster than MySQL depending on the operation.
Employment
Experience
- Canadian Nutrient Filehttps://github.com/cyrilrbt/canadian-nutrient-file
Tools for parsing and importing the Canadian Nutrient File into a mongo database. Also provides a basic flask web app for looking at the data.
- Cookiecutter-flask-mongoresthttps://github.com/cyrilrbt/cookiecutter-flask-mongorest
Boilerplate for a Python 3 REST backend that can generate a new project using cookiecutter.
The backend uses:
- Buildout for environment and dependency management and fixing
- Flask-mongorest as the base for generating CRUD endpoints
- A basic JWT-based authentication system
- Nose and coverage for tests, comes with 93% code coverage
- Gunicorn, supervisor, and nginx for server deployment, the config files are included - Caldavhttps://github.com/python-caldav/caldav
Python library to interact with CalDav servers. (initial author)
Skills
Languages
Python 3, Python, Less, HTML, CSS, Objective-C, C, SCSS, JavaScript 6, JavaScript, CoffeeScript, Sass, RubyFrameworks
Nose, Flask, Ruby on Rails (RoR), Django, JSON Web Tokens (JWT), Angular, Redux, Express.js, OAuth 2, Appium, Apache SparkStorage
MongoEngine, Amazon S3 (AWS S3), NoSQL, Couchbase, Redis, PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, Elasticsearch, Neo4jOther
Tornadoweb, Cloudinary, CardDAV, IMAP, Fish, Tornado, XvfbLibraries/APIs
Rollbar, CalDAV, SQLAlchemy, peewee, Facebook API, Twitter API, Bottle.py, React, Backbone.js, Vue, Mandrill API, SendGrid API, Tumblr API, Twilio API, PySpark, PandasTools
Amazon CloudFront CDN, Apache Airflow, Git, Vim Text Editor, Mongoose, Jenkins, Bitbucket, GitHub, GitLab, CircleCI, Amazon Simple Email Service (SES), SendGrid, RSpecParadigms
RESTPlatforms
Amazon EC2, Celery eCommerce, MacOS, Linux, Ubuntu, Mandrill, Visual Studio Code
Education
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science2003 - 2007Université de Montréal - Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Certifications
- Professional Scrum Master 1JULY 2019 - PRESENTscrum.org
